Bangin it out....

Yo famz,

wuts gud? past few weeks have been pretty eventful....there is a young dude from Sydney, Australia who came through and i toured him around AE. Turns out he's into film and produced a film that was nominated (and won) Best International Doc of the Year at a film festival here. It's called Ubuntu: a Street Child Story one of the key interviewees is Stephen Lungu, the CEO of AE. Anyway, in that way AE is connected to the film and we were invited into a partnership with this film festival through it all - madd kool connect, God is good!

What that meant is that last minute we had to send someone to the award dinner and there was no one available except for my colleague Jerry and yours truly (was also hype cuz we're both into independent film and are always talking about it - oh, you should check a SA produced film called Jerusalema if you can).

Jerry and I - hot ta deaf ryt?

So after travelling into the depths of nowhere on dirt, deserted road and in thick fog we end up at the venue. Was a small gathering and they were expecting us.....soon as we reach the director of the festival comes up to us and tells Jerry he's presenting an award....caught him off gaurd. It was a nice scene, as we met producers and directors from all over the world. So we were waiting in tension for the moment of being called up to present the award cuz Jerry didn't wanna do it and neither did i; he was saying they actually had my name in the schedule to announce it so it was a mistake they went to him...whatever, i wasn't sure what it was so was just tryin to stay calm. Well the moment came and my man took it by the........ He actually presented the award to the overall winner of the whole festival, he's actually the dude who directed Pretty Woman and Undersiege! He and his wife produced this film called Jackson which is like a street opera; we saw a clip and it looked pretty hype.

Jerry's moment of fame

There were quite a few hype-looking films there....another one called Machetero out of New York about the Peurto Rican independence struggle. Check out any or all of the above films, especially Ubuntu of course......

yup, that's it for now. Stay bless to be bless!