{"id":1016,"date":"2011-01-10T08:21:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.africanfilmfestival.org\/"},"modified":"2018-12-26T12:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T20:11:30","slug":"festival-highlights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2019\/festival\/festival-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Opening Night Film<em>: <a href=\"\/2019\/festival\/films\/yomeddine\/\">YOMEDDINE\u00a0<\/a><\/em>with visiting Egyptian filmmaker Abu Bakr Shawky <\/strong>on Friday, February 1 at the Hollywood Theatre, with film showings at 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., followed by a Q&amp;A with the director after each showing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shorts from Emerging African Filmmakers i<\/strong><strong>n partnership with the Luxor African Film \u00a0Festival <\/strong>on Saturday, February 2 at 2:00 p.m. at PCC Cascade. A series of short films from emerging filmmakers from a diverse range of countries in Africa.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Centerpiece\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Film: <em><a href=\"\/2019\/festival\/films\/razzia\/\">RAZZIA<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Morocco) by film director Nabil Ayouch <\/strong>on Friday, February 15 at 7:00 p.m. at the Hollywood Theatre. This film is another haunting jewel from a master storyteller. (Matinee screening at PCC Cascade on Thursday, February 14 at 2:00 p.m.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Family Fest Matinee with a concert by BRAVO Youth Orchestras: <\/strong>Saturday, February 23 at 2:00 p.m. at PCC Cascade. This year\u2019s film, <a href=\"\/2019\/festival\/films\/liyana\/\"><strong><em>LIYANA<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, is an unusual hybrid of animation and documentary. Working with a children\u2019s orphanage in Swaziland, South African renowned storyteller Gcina Mhlophe helps create a story steeped in imagination and personal experiences of the Swazi children. Beautifully illustrated and grippingly narrated by the children.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New African Theatre<\/strong>: An afternoon staged reading of &#8220;<a href=\"\/2019\/festival\/films\/new-plays-from-african-writers-theatre\/\">The Homecoming Queen<\/a>&#8221; by Nigerian-American playwright Ngozi Anyanwu, performed by local actors, on Saturday, February 16 at 2:00 p.m., at PCC Cascade. In collaboration with PassinArt: A Theatre Company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening Night Film: YOMEDDINE\u00a0with visiting Egyptian filmmaker Abu Bakr Shawky on Friday, February 1 at the Hollywood Theatre, with film showings at 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., followed by a Q&amp;A with the director after each showing. Shorts from Emerging African Filmmakers in partnership with the Luxor African Film \u00a0Festival on Saturday, February 2 at [&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\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4084,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1016\/revisions\/4084"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}