Media Reservation for SF Black Film Festival Media Briefing & VIP Screening @ Dolby Laboratories June 12
Date and time
Location
Dolby Laboratories Inc
100 Potrero Ave San Francisco, CA 94103Description
San Francisco Black Film Festival XVI
Celebrates Juneteenth, Father’s Day & Independent Films
As it Salutes the “California Music Industry Summit,” “The Maison Revolution”
& Flipsyde’s “The Piper’s” “Cops and Robbers” E. P.
Wright Enterprises & LaHitz Media Moderate the Festival Media Briefing &
Maison Revolution’s VIP Presentation of “The Last Song Before The War.”
Who: Kali O'Ray, Co Director San Francisco Black Film Festival, Katera Crossley, Co-Director; Tracy L. Reed, Founder, California Music Industry Summit; Larry Batiste, Grammy Nominated Artist and Musical Director for the Grammy Awards Pre-Show, Jinho “The Piper” Ferreira of internationally known band, “Flipsyde,” Rap Artist, Alameda County Sheriff Officer, Playwright, Writer, Award-winning Screenwriter; Robin Bates and Constance Bryan, founders of the Maison Revolution (Maisoncna.org), Jacquie Taliaferro, Filmmaker, Director of LaHitz Media, Jackie Wright, President, Wright Enterprises, Award-winning Journalist, Producer and Publicist.
What: Media Briefing for the San Francisco Film Festival and screening of “The Last Song Before The War.” Special Guests: Tracy L. Reed, Founder, California Music Industry Summit, June 13-15 at the Kaiser Center Oakland. Larry Batiste, Grammy Awards Pre Show Music Director, Grammy nominated artist, and Associate Producer, California Music Industry Summit. Music and film go hand in hand; CMIS is a platform for emerging musicians as the San Francisco Black Film Festival (http://www.sfbff.org) is one for emerging filmmakers. Both connect emerging artists and industry experts.
Jinho “The Piper” Ferreira of internationally known band “Flipsyde,” whose recently launched “Cops and Robbers”-“Three Strikes” against human-trafficking and violence in the form of a C.D., E.P. and book, “Cops and Robbers- Past, Present and Future, ” co-authored with his wife, educator, Dr. Dawn Williams, will be featured at both the San Francisco Black Film Festival and The California Music Industry Summit. “Believe” from the E.P. will be highlighted.
Robin Bates, Founder and Executive Director of Maison de La Culture Noire Americaine, “The Maison Revolution,” and Assistant Director,Constance Bryan, just off a successful Alliance Francaise launch of their organization that provides cultural and educational tours to Paris and their website maisonnca.org, the portal between San Francisco and Paris and the French speaking African Diaspora. “The Maison Revolution” presents a special offering at the San Francisco Black Film Festival: “The Last Song Before The War,” a documentary by Director/Producer Kiley Kraskouskas, Editor/ Producer Leola Calzolai-Stewart, and Producer Andrea Papitto about the music festival that had been held for years in the Mali desert near Timbuktu (French is the official language of Mali).
When: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 5:00 p.m. Media Briefing; 6:00 p.m. screenings of “The Last Song Before The War” (TRT: 90).
Where: Dolby Laboratories, 100 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94103
(Light Refreshments will be provided.)
Media, please register for planning purposes. One media guest is allowed.
Organized by
Jackie Wright is the president of Wright Enterprises, a full service public relations firm serving the corporate, non-profit and government sectors nationally and internationally. A seasoned media and public relations professional, Wright has 20 years of media experience, including more than a decade of award-winning journalism experience in radio, television a print and Internet communications. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady School of Journalism, home of the prestigious George Foster Peabody Awards.