{"id":1016,"date":"2011-01-10T08:21:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.africanfilmfestival.org\/"},"modified":"2016-12-27T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T18:24:32","slug":"festival-highlights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2017\/festival\/festival-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Opening Night film, <a href=\"\/2017\/festival\/films\/akounak-tedalat-taha-tazoughai-rain-the-color-blue-with-a-little-red-in-it\/\">Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai\/Rain the Color Blue With a Little Red In It<\/a>, is a homage to Prince\u2019s Purple Rain and is the first narrative feature in the Tuareg language, Tamashek. Portland <a href=\"\/2017\/festival\/festival-highlights\/artist-biographies\/\">film director Christopher Kirkley and musician\/actor Mdou Moctar<\/a> from Niger will both be present to discuss the film at the Hollywood Theatre on Friday, February 3, after the 6:30pm and 9:15pm screenings and will perform in concert at 11:15pm.<\/li>\n<li>We are pleased to present two staged readings of new plays by African writers in collaboration with Boom Arts\u2019 Global Voices: International Play series. <a href=\"\/2017\/festival\/films\/fishers-of-hope-tawaret-theater\/\">Fishers of Hope\/Tawaret<\/a> (South Africa) and <a href=\"\/2017\/festival\/films\/onions-make-us-cry\/\">Onions Make Us Cry<\/a> (Nigeria) will be presented with talk backs after each play on Saturday, February 11, at 3pm and 4pm, respectively, in Moriarty Arts &amp; Humanities Building, Room 104, PCC Cascade.<\/li>\n<li>Join us each Saturday at 5:30pm for a <a href=\"\/2017\/festival\/festival-highlights\/social-hours\/\">Saturday Social Hour<\/a> before the evening feature! Meet up with friends to enjoy food, live music and an extended African Marketplace in the lobby of Moriarty A&amp;H Building on the PCC Cascade Campus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening Night film, Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai\/Rain the Color Blue With a Little Red In It, is a homage to Prince\u2019s Purple Rain and is the first narrative feature in the Tuareg language, Tamashek. Portland film director Christopher Kirkley and musician\/actor Mdou Moctar from Niger will both be present to discuss the film at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":3382,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1016","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3692,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1016\/revisions\/3692"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}