Talk:Newark Black Film Festival

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As quoted in the Newark-based newspaper, The Star-Ledger, Rutgers University professor Clement Price has said "The festival was started in the lean years of Newark history, following the disturbances of the summer of '67, The Newark Black Film Festival was one of the early and more credible efforts to address the trauma and civic dislocation and the concerns about the future of Newark. The enduring aspiration of the festival has been to show films that give a believable portrait of African-American and African diasporic life."

The Newark Black Film Festival, celebrating 40 years,

The concept of the festival was originated by filmmaker Oliver Franklin in 1974 at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Center. Gus Heningburg, of the Greater Newark Urban Coalition, suggested that the Newark Museum host one of its traveling events. After Franklin's festival could not continue the museum decided to put together its own event and enlisted a selection committee that included Gloria Hopkins Buck, Rutgers history professor Clement Price and the late James Brown of the Newark Public Library. Both Buck and Price still serve on the festival selection committee.

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The Paul Robeson Award was inaugurated in 1985 and is given biennially. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11441243.htm Djflem (talk) 06:16, 26 July 2023 (UTC)