Eye Candy's Blog Posts Tagged 'Festival' (3)

The man bluntly says: “money inspired me to go there” while talking about touring college campuses across the map. Seaton Smith has a credible background in film, theatre, philosophy, and is molding into an emerging comedian in the New York scene. Seaton will be one of the hosts of the 2012 Afropunk Festival! We spoke to him on the phone and it was nothing but pure jokes and giggles! “There are so many things in New York that are inspiring; I don’t want to help them. I want…

Restless City has been much buzzed about since its debut at the Sundance Film Festival last year. Watching this movie is like some sort of visual massage - Nigerian director Andrew Dosunmu uses the landscape of New York City to frame the story of an African immigrant who finds himself mixed up in a world of trouble when he falls for a beautiful callgirl under the thumb of a vindictive gangster. Everything about this movie oozes style and a sort of film noir quality reminiscent…

The 19th Annual New York African Film Festival launched April 11 at Lincoln Center, and this year’s batch of movies are as inspiring as they are entertaining. In recent years, there has been more and more discussion about the plight of diasporic filmmakers and what to do about the lack of opportunity and representation that black people face in Hollywood. Luckily, the AFF this year is proving yet again that there are strides being made all over (take the…