Event date: February 20th, 2009 7:00 PM
Event location: Hollywood Theater, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd
The Cascade Festival of African Films will screen Charles Burnett and Edwin Santiago's “Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation” at 7pm, February 20 at the Hollywood Theater (4122 NE Sandy Blvd).
“Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation” follows the legend of Samuel Nujoma (Carl Lumbly), Namibia’s first president and a prominent leader in the struggle for independence from apartheid South Africa.
Burnett and Santiago collaborated for several years on such films as “Nightjohn” and “Warming by the Devil's Fire.” An influential film director, the New York Times heralded Burnett as “the nation's least-known great film maker and most gifted black director.” His seminal film, “Killer of Sheep,” responds to the Blaxploitation films of the ‘70s and focuses on the experience of African Americans living in Watts in the mid-70’s. The Library of Congress declared “Killer of Sheep” a national treasure as one of the first 50 on the National Film Registry; the National Society of Film Critics selected it as one of the “100 Essential Films” of all time.
