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Screen/Society--2017 African Film Festival--"Ayanda and the Mechanic"

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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Introduced by Prof. Anne-Maria Makhulu (Cultural Anthropology/African & African American Studies); Q&A to follow!
2017 African Film Festival

Film Screening: "Ayanda and the Mechanic" (Sarah Blecher, 2015, 105 min, South Africa, in English, Color, Blu-Ray) / In a community, vibrant with migrants from across the African Continent, against the backdrop of unspoken love, a young woman tries to navigate a path for herself. But this is a world where everything keeps shifting... Everything except the one thing that does need to change. "Ayanda and the Mechanic" is a coming of age story of a twenty-one-year-old Afro hipster, who embarks on a journey of self-discovery trying to keep the memory of her father alive, when she's thrown into a world of greasy overalls, gender stereotypes and abandoned vintage cars in need of a young woman's re-inventive touch who tries to reclaim what would've been, what could've been./ -- Winner for World Fiction at Los Angeles Film Festival (2015)! / "The film has the urgency and magnetism of an assured youth-culture manifesto, only stumbling a bit when the balance between dramatic and comic elements leans too heavily toward the former." - Ernest Hardy, Village Voice / Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey0zFRYNdno

Contact: Hank Okazaki