Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jan 10 2009 4:00pm - 10:30pm

Price: 

$17.00 ($9.00 under 12) in advance, $22.00 at the door ($11.00 under 12)

Where: 

Barnsdall Gallery Theatre and Park
4800 Hollywood Blvd. (just west of Vermont)
Hollywood CA 90038
Tickets available online at www.BGTtix.com

Amazigh Film FestivalThe second annual Amazigh Film Festival, under the stewardship of director Helene Hagan, will present art, music and films of the Amazigh or Berber cultures of North Africa. Last year's event was highly successful and the second edition promises to be even more intriguing. Here's the schedule:

4:00-4:30 pm: Slideshow presentation, "Kabylia, the land, the people, the Arts" (10 min) - Welcome Address by Helene Hagan and presentation by Rachid Bouksim, Director of the Issni N'Ourgh Film Festival of Agadir, Morocco, on the recent development of the Amazigh Cinematography in Morocco.

4:30-6:30 pm: Documentaries "Pottery from the Rif" (27 min, 2003, Morocco, Dounia Productions, Ltd.) and "On Native Lands" (86 min, Canada/Morocco, 2007, Orbi xii).

6:30-7:30 pm: Art Exhibit and Reception with art by Moroccan artists Hassan Moumene (Atlas) and Abdallah Aourik (Souss). Traditional mint tea and tidbits catered by CHAMEAU, Inc. of Beverly Hills.

7:30-9:00 pm: Film "Tizza U' wul" (Fishbones) 2008 - Ali N' Productions, Morocco.

15 minute intermission

9:15-9:30 pm: Tazzla Awards - 9:15 - 9:30 pm - A.C.A.A. presentation.

9:30-10:30 pm: Concert with L.A. percussionist and vocalist Fella Oudane (Kabyle, North African medley), with special guest Khalid Ayour, music from the Souss Valley, Morocco.

Tickets : www.BGTtix.com