Afrique360 Screening Series @ UCLA presents || Today 11/6/2015

Afrique360 The Screening Series looks to stimulate dialog on Race by presenting its second installment with obligatory film “COLORBLIND: Re-Thinking Race”

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About COLORBLIND Director:
In 2007 Barbara Allen wrote, directed and edited the short film, Morning Due which screened at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival Short Corner, the Chicago International Film Festival and won the Jury Prize for Best Film at the 2008 Langston Hughes Film Festival.

Babara Allen invited to participate in PBS’ first Sundance Producers Academy in 2002, her involvement at Sundance subsequently led to her Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Input Fellowship in Rotterdam that same year. In 2006 Allen was chosen to attend the prestigious CPB/PBS Producer’s Academy in Boston.

In 2010 her documentary film, DuSable to Obama: Chicago’s Black Metropolis broke PBS pledge records, won two Emmy Awards, a Lisagor Award for Journalism, a Best Documentary Award at the Nashville International Black Film Festival and was in competition at The 2011 Pan African Film and Television Festival (FESPACO) in West Africa.

Colorblind: Rethinking Race, her 2012 documentary, was part of the Kellogg Foundation’s Racial Healing initiative.
Allen was awarded the 2013 Knight Fellowship in Journalism at Stanford University.

About Afrique360:
Afrique360 Screening Series is designed to provide an exhibition platform for African and African Diaspora filmmakers to screen their work, create knowledge exchange, and to increase overall consumer awareness and accessibility to films from Africa and its Diaspora. The series is a great opportunity for sponsors and alliance partners to connect to a unique consumer base eager for lifestyle products, services and brands.