{"id":341,"date":"2007-08-09T16:31:42","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T20:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/341"},"modified":"2011-09-24T20:49:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T00:49:35","slug":"pan-african-film-festival-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/341","title":{"rendered":"Pan-African Film Festival (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The President Has AIDS<\/em> (2006, Arnold Antonin<\/strong><br \/>\nTotally ineptly made movie with honorable intentions, defended by lead actor (the Haitian from <em>Heroes<\/em>) in post-movie discussion.  Apparently the Haitian independent film scene isn&#8217;t all that it could be.  Not about the &#8220;president&#8221;, but a super popular entertainer (and, inexplicably, a regular guy who looks identical to him).  Good to hear that it did well in Haiti and got people talking, anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Salud<\/em> (2006, Connie Field)<\/strong><br \/>\nDocumentary on Cuban medical system, but mostly set in other countries where Cuban doctors set up to help poor populations that local doctors can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t treat.  Pretty okay doc, but I mostly remember the less-okay post-movie discussion led by an alternative-medicine advocate who loomed in front of Katy and me.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Daughters of the Dust<\/em> (1991, Julie Dash)<\/strong><br \/>\nI spaced out during the entire movie, and whenever I looked up I saw some languid images and heard conversations that I could only barely understand when I tried hard.  Didn&#8217;t seem worth trying that hard.  Sorry, acclaimed african american director Julie Dash!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President Has AIDS (2006, Arnold Antonin Totally ineptly made movie with honorable intentions, defended by lead actor (the Haitian from Heroes) in post-movie discussion. Apparently the Haitian independent film scene isn&#8217;t all that it could be. Not about the &#8220;president&#8221;, but a super popular entertainer (and, inexplicably, a regular guy who looks identical to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[42,93,69],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-africa","tag-documentary","tag-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6704,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/6704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}