Cassandra Freeman has Rihanna to thank for tapping into her inner superwoman for Kinyarwanda. “I would listen to ‘Run This Town’ to get into character” the actress shares. Freeman plays Lt. Rose, a tough as nails soldier, whose mission is to protect a group of refugees during the height of the Rwandan genocide. The character […]
As the opening of AFFRM’s second feature, KINYARWANDA, hits the big screen, actress Salli Richardson-Whitfield taped a message detailing why the African-American community should support the film. Richardson-Whitfield speaks how she was glad to have been invited to a screening of Alrick Brown’s directorial debut because she wouldn’t have heard about it otherwise. Salli Richardson-Whitfield […]
What do you when you find yourself falling in love while your country is being destroyed? The new film, KINYARWANDA, paints a portrait of that very predicament. Set in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, two people, Jean and Patrique, find themselves drawn to each other as Rwanda weathers indescribable violence. The film and its director, […]
Director Ava DuVernay continues the revolution in black cinema with KINYARWANDA, the second release of the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM). AFFRM’s first release, I Will Follow, directed by DuVernay (starring Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Omari Hardwick), won the 2010 UrbanWorld Film Festival Award for Best Narrative Feature, and received glowing reviews from critics and […]
