{"id":248,"date":"2009-12-21T18:31:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T02:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.africanfilmfestival.org\/2009\/sankofa\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T22:27:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T06:27:49","slug":"sankofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/sankofa\/","title":{"rendered":"SANKOFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This powerful film, which opened our 5th festival in 1995, catapulted Haile Gerima onto the world stage of filmmaking. A parable of African-American enslavement and resistance, the film tells the story of Mona, an African-American fashion model on a photo shoot at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana. Under the influence of a traditional Sankofa priest, she is transported back in time to a sugarcane plantation in the Americas, where she becomes Shola, an enslaved African woman. She experiences firsthand the brutality of the slave system and undergoes a personal and cultural awakening. <em>Sankofa<\/em> derives its title from the Akan symbol for looking back to the past in order to move forward. In English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This powerful film, which opened our 5th festival in 1995, catapulted Haile Gerima onto the world stage of filmmaking. A parable of African-American enslavement and resistance, the film tells the story of Mona, an African-American fashion model on a photo shoot at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana. Under the influence of a traditional Sankofa priest, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghana","category-jamaica","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}