January 30, 2010

HomeGrown: HipLIfe in Ghana DVD release tour

DVD’s for institutions are NOW ON SALE at the HipLife more store !


Feb 19            Parque Morazan - Costa Rica (Inventos)
March 24        University of Miami -ASU, African Film Fest, African Studies
March 3          Enrichment Week (Youth In Oakland)   
March 5          Canal 15 en Costa Rica -Los Hermanos Fantauzzi
Mar.16-20      SXSW (Linking with Music and Film lovers)
March 26        BDN’s GHANA @ 54 CONCERT w/ OFORI AMPONSAH (NYC)
April 1/2         Trinity International Hip Hop Festival
                      (HomeGrown Screening April 2nd 6:30pm)

April 14          Stanford Global Hip Hop Conference 

April 24/25    Hip-Hop As A Movement Week at UW-Madison
April 27/28    La Pena w/ Blitz
April 28/29    CAPCR conference (Sacramento)


if you would like to book a screening contact info {at} hiplifemoive.com

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Past Screenings

Oct. 6th-24th 2010 in Ghana Shooting Nana NYC and Samini Music Video
*screening at the VIP corperate launch on oct. 22nd

Oct. 16th 2010 The Urban Mediamakers Film Festival
Location: Marriott Hotel - Salon D (ATL)

Oct. 27th 2010 Haverford College • 370 Lancaster Avenue • PA 19041 •

New York African Film Festival Aug 7th 2009
http://www.africanfilmny.org/aff_fest.html#freedman

Ethos Festival in Hastings, United Kingdom Aug. 29th 2009
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/profile.php?id=1467478550

Africa in the Picture film festival (Amsterdam & Rotterdam)
Sept. 9th till 14th, 2009

http://www.africainthepicture.nl/en

Dec. 30th 2009 Los Angeles Preview Screening
Q&A w/ Eli Jacobs Fantauzzi, Director
V.I.P (vision in Progress), HipLife Stars Live from Ghana
The Downtown Independent Theater
251 South Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
movie @ 8pm
Q&A @ 9pm

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Feb. 11th & 13th @ African & African Diaspora Studies Film Festival
and Photo Exhibit FIU (Miami)

http://issuu.com/africana/docs/african_diaspora-_worldwide_underground_issuu__2_

Feb. 13th @ Sol Collective (Sacramento) with Blitz the Ambassador, Ghanian MC

http://www.solcollective.org/

Feb. 15th Cafe Cocomo (Benefit for Haiti) Panel discussion: Trans-Atlantic Beat Migration: An exploration of Motherland rhythms, flows and spirits in the post colonial New World featuring: Davey D, Myka 9, Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, Babalawo Yagbe & more.
http://www.cafecocomo.com

Feb 17th imix book store (Los Angeles)
http://www.imixbooks.com

Feb. 18th Afro Funke @ Zanzibar (Los Angeles)
http://www.afrofunke.com/

Feb. 19th Friday – San Pasqual Academy (CLOSED EVENT)

Feb. 21  Big Saturday; Tubman Chavez (San Diego) 5am-6:15am 415 Euclid 92114
http://www.thebigsaturday.com

Feb. 22nd Mesa College ( Clenched Fist Productions Videos) 11am discussion with Kahlil and Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Feb. 23 Southwestern College (African Am. Alliance, San Diego)  6-9pm  Rm 751 
http://www.swccd.edu/Pdfs/BLACK_HISTORY_MONTH2010.pdf

Feb. 24th. World Beat Center (San Diego) 6:30-8:30
2100 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA 92101
http://www.worldbeatcenter.org/

March 1st  Malcolm X Branch Library 6-7:30pm
5148 Market Street, San Diego, CA 92114
http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/locations/

March 2nd Veterans Park 4th St/Vine St 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Veterans Park 4th St/Vine St Coachella Ca 92236
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=338924218536&ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=338924218536

March (first week) McClatchy High School (Sacramento) -Tentative

March (first week) CSUS (Sacramento) -Tentative

March 6th Ghana Independence Day Party+ Movie Screening
1015 Clay Street Oakland, CA  Time: 9pm to 2am 
Djs: Dj RasNii, Dj X (Kofi) & Dj Kwesi  Gate fee: $10.00   Dress to impress
Must have ID…21 & over.   For more info contact Nii @ 5103849532

April 7&8th SUNY Geneseo, New York State Hip-Hop Symposium 2010
Hip-Hop and You Don’t Stop 7PM-8:30PM, Newton 201

April 15th Columbia University NYC, Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 7pm
Teachers College (room 179 Grace Dodge Hall), 525 west 120th st.
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/

April 17th Hip Hop for Change Mills College Oakland with Bakari Kitwana
CLICK ON LINK ABOVE TO RSVP (GET IN)
http://www.mills.edu/

April 21st Sacramento City College Cultural Awareness Center (CAC).
workshops: 9-10:20 am and Noon – 1:30 pm in the Cultural Awareness Centerhttp://www.scc.losrios.edu/

April 22nd UC Berkeley at the International house (Homeroom) 7pm

April 28th University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.wisc.edu/

April 29th Mira Costa College in Oceanside California (6-8pm)
Q&A and Discussion lead by, Sherehe Hollins & Kwamina Ewusie

May 4th Black Lily Screening (Philadelphia)
http://blacklily.com/?p=191

May 17th at 3:30pm Our School at Blair Grocery 1740 Benton St.
New Orleans, LA 70117 Donation $5

May 19th Back Yard Boogie with producer Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi
915 N. Dupre New Orleans, La. 70119

May 19th UC Davis Wednesday, May 19, 7:00-9:00 PM in Wellman 2 on the UCD campus. With presentation by Halifu Osumare, Ph.D. called: Hiplife Culture: Indigenizing Hip-Hop in Ghana.” Q&A with Dir. Eli JF

May 20th 3:15pm  Charles A. Jones Skills Center in Sacramento ,CA 95824
5451 Lemon Hill Avenue (Room 104-Multipurpose Room)

May 21st Nea Community Learning Center in Alameda
(Not open to public)

May 26th Stanford I will be screening in Dr. H. Samy Alim’s class
(not open to public)

(“Creating ‘an empire within an empire’: Critical Hip Hop Language Pedagogies and the Role of Sociolinguistics” in Alim, Ibrahim and Pennycook, eds., “Global Linguistic Flows: Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language” - Routledge, 2009).

after that we are going to see Common and you can come…
FREE with SUID. Non-SUID holders can buy tickets for $12 here: http://www.stanfordtickets.org/tickets/calendar/view.aspx?id=3267

June 17th  FIST UP FILM FESTIVAL!!!
Q&A with Dir. Eli JF/ Ato Ulzen-Appiah of Musike.com and DJ Ras Nii 
La Pena 8pm  3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley Ca

The 8th edition of CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival

27/8 kl.17.00-18.00: ÅRHUS, KLOSTERTORVET, FRI ENTRÉ
29/8 kl.23.00-24.00: SKØRPING, KULTURSTATIONEN/SVERIGGÅRDSVEJ 4, FRI ENTRÉ
28/8 kl.23.00-24.00: AALBORG, GAMMELTORV, OPEN AIR, FRI ENTRÉ
31/8 kl.19.00-20.00: ÅRHUS, KLOSTERTORVET, FRI ENTRÉ
3/9 kl.21.00-22.00: KØBENHAVN, BLÅGÅRDS PLADS, OPEN AIR, FRI ENTRÉ
7/9 kl.20.00-21.00: KØBENHAVN, CINEMATEKET, GOTHERSGADE 55, BILLETBESTILLING
11/9 kl. 20.00-21.00: KØBENHAVN, CINEMATEKET, GOTHERSGADE 55, BILLETBESTILLING TLF: 33743412

Aug. 1 -HBO New York International LFF
Aug. 17 -Bliss (Belize City)