On Thursday, Feb. 17 the African Film Festival will host Portland-based director Cambria Matlow for a screening and Q &A of her documentary "Burning in the Sun" at 7:30 p.m. at the Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building at PCC Cascade. Like all films for PCC's African Film Festival, the screening is free. Matlow spoke with The Skanner News about her film, the struggles of filmmaker and businessman and the perils of filming in Mali.

Anyone familiar with the history of the Black Panther Party knows that it self-destructed during the Seventies after the FBI strategically created dissension in its ranks via a combination of infiltration, disinformation and assassinations.

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Nia Long talks about her new movie, Mooz-Lum, a dysfunctional family drama where she plays Safiyah, the long-suffering wife of an overbearing, religious zealot.

Everybody knows that the late Bruce Lee (Jiang Dai-Yan) was the greatest karate star ever to grace the silver screen. But have you ever wondered who taught him that "expert timing" and how to be "as fast as lightning," to borrow a couple of phrases from one-hit wonder Carl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting."

There aren't very many films being made out of the Republic of Chad. There are even fewer filmmakers. On the opening night of the 21^st annual Cascade Festival of African Films, festival organizers will host Chad's multiple award-winning director Matamat-Saleh Haroun for a screening of his new film, "A Screaming Man." On Wednesday, Jan. 27, Haroun spoke with The Skanner News from France about the film, the difficulties of making films Chad and how he (nearly) single-handedly brought cinema back to his home country.

Ayanda (Zandile Msutwana) is frantically putting the finishing touches on her impending, dream wedding set to transpire in Cape Town in a couple of days.

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The Directors Guild of America is holding a special evening of tribute for pioneering African American film director Michael Schultz. The guild's African American steering committee is honoring Schultz as a 'Game Changer', because his work for major film studios opened doors for directors of color.

Freakonomics is a best-selling primer on Economics written by University of Chicago professor Steven Levitt in collaboration with journalist Stephen Dubner. Together, the talented twosome endeavored to make an inscrutable subject accessible for the average individual by breaking ghetto demographics and financial transactions down into layman's terms even a street hustler could comprehend.