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Every February we bring you Films and Art from within the U.S. and all over the world throughout the African Diaspora!

Schedule:
Thursday February 9, 2023
7:00pm - 10:00pm: Opening Night Film - Chevalier | Presented by Searchlight Pictures
Inspired by the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The son of an enslaved African woman and a French plantation owner, Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr. in a tour de force performance) rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette (Lucy Boynton) and her court.

Location - Directors Guild of America Theater

Friday February 10, 2023
1:10pm - 2:31pm: Citizen Kwame - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
1:20pm - 2:50pm: Carajita - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
1:25pm - 2:54pm: Shorts Series 10 (89m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
1:30pm - 2:49pm: Shorts Series 2 (79m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
3:30pm - 5:10pm: Elephant - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
3:50pm - 5:09pm: Shorts Series 19 (79m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
4:00pm - 5:30pm: What Had Happened Was: The Herbert and Cleofis Story - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
4:10pm - 5:45pm: Talia's Journey (Le Voyage de Talia) with with salt. - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
6:10pm - 7:35pm: Storming Caesars Palace - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
6:30pm - 7:58pm: A Star Without A Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
6:45pm - 8:05pm: Move When the Spirit Says Move: The Legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
8:35pm - 10:05pm: A Holistic Journey with Iyeza Medicine Biopiracy - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
9:05pm - 10:24pm: The Liberation of Fremont High - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
9:10pm - 10:44pm: Orango - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
9:20pm - 11:16pm: Kanaani - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14

Saturday February 11, 2023
1:00pm - 2:20pm: Shorts Series 20 (80m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
1:10pm - 2:30pm: Move When the Spirit Says Move: The Legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
1:25pm - 2:45pm: I Am Hope with De-Streamed - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
3:35pm - 4:50pm: Santos - Skin to Skin - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
3:45pm - 5:13pm: Haiti Is A Nation of Artists with Am I Not Someone & #BlackBoyJoyGone (88m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
4:10pm - 5:58pm: Our Father, the Devil - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
5:00pm - 6:42pm: The Exile of the Sea (El Exilio del Mar) with Stolen Fish - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
6:00pm - 7:46pm: LACMA Presentation 1 - Dreams Are Colder Than Death with Regards de Mémoire - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
6:15pm - 7:42pm: Shorts Series 9 (87m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
7:00pm - 8:42pm: CSULA Presentation | The Africologist: Chronicles of Africa - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
7:40pm - 8:55pm: Table Talk: Know Someone? - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
8:50pm - 10:18pm: Little Richard: I Am Everything | Presented By Gilead - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
8:50pm - 10:38pm: You're My Favourite Place - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
9:45pm - 11:24pm: Webseries 1 (99m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
9:55pm - 11:17pm: Honor Student - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9

Sunday February 12, 2023
12:30pm - 2:00pm: Music Is My Life - Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
1:15pm - 2:42pm: Shorts Series 5 (88m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
1:30pm - 3:24pm: The Pastor and the Revolutionary (O Pastor e o Guerrigeiro) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
1:50pm - 3:12pm: Safari - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
3:00pm - 4:47pm: LACMA Presentation 2 - Fragments of Diaspora: Shorts Selections - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
4:00pm - 5:30pm: A Holistic Journey with Iyeza Medicine Biopiracy - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
4:15pm - 5:33pm: In His Own Words with Fighting for Respect: African-American Soldiers in WWI - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
4:25pm - 5:50pm: Shorts Series 7 (85m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
6:00pm - 7:24pm: Shorts Series 18 (84m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
6:30pm - 7:46pm: The Bright Path: The Johnny Bright Story with Image of an American: Frederick Douglass and the Right to Vote - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
6:55pm - 8:43pm: Africa, Cradle of Humankind and Modern Civilisations - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
6:55pm - 8:23pm: Hyde Park - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
8:35pm - 10:17pm: Xale, The Childhood Wounds - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
8:55pm - 10:15pm: The "Hello Forties" Documentary - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
9:25pm - 10:55pm: Let Us Make Eve - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
9:45pm - 11:11pm: Shorts Series 6 (84m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14

Monday February 13, 2023
1:05pm - 2:25pm: Shorts Series 3 (80m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
1:10pm - 2:27pm: Betye Saar: Ready to be a Warrior - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
1:15pm - 2:53pm: Bedroom Chains - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
1:30pm - 3:13pm: Black Mothers Love & Resist - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
3:35pm - 5:02pm: Shorts Series 16 (87m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
3:40pm - 5:00pm: Four Walls with The Talk, Innocence and Daze - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
4:00pm - 5:35pm: Lobola, A Bride's True Price? - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
4:15pm - 5:33pm: Shorts Series 1 (80m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
6:00pm - 7:46pm: This is My Black with Driving the Green Book - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
6:30pm - 7:57pm: SSC Special Presentation | With This Light (Con Esta Luz) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
6:35pm - 7:55pm: Let The Church Say with D.A.D. - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
6:40pm - 8:15pm: Sasha Lanes - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
8:00pm - 10pm: PAFF LOL! Nika King & Friends Comedy Show - Miracle Theater
8:45pm - 10:17pm: Webseries 2 (91m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
8:55pm - 10:25pm: We Are Still Here - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
9:05pm - 10:42pm: Men Don't Cheat - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
9:10pm - 10:46pm: Shorts Series 12 (96m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9

Tuesday February 14, 2023
1:00pm - 2:20pm: I Am Hope with De-Streamed - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
1:00pm - 2:18pm: Shorts Series 1 (80m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
1:15pm - 2:43pm: Haiti Is A Nation of Artists with Am I Not Someone & #BlackBoyJoyGone (88m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
1:20pm - 2:47pm: Short Series 16 (87m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
3:25pm - 4:56pm: Shorts Series 14 (91m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
3:30pm - 5:02pm: Under the Fig Trees - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
3:40pm - 5:15pm: Born in Chicago with M.I.D. Notes - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
3:50pm - 5:17pm: Shorts Series 9 (87m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
6:05pm - 7:31pm: Shorts Series 11 (87m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
6:15pm - 7:37pm: Roux's Blues: Promise Me, You'll Be There - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
6:20pm - 7:45pm: Stronghold - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
6:25pm - 7:47pm: Rye Lane - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
8:40pm - 10:28pm: Hargrove - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
8:40pm - 10:49pm: Dancing the Twist in Bamako - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
8:45pm - 10:31pm: This is My Black with Driving the Green Book - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
8:50pm - 10:40pm: The Honeymoon - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13

Wednesday February 15, 2023
1:00pm - 2:26pm: Shorts Series 11 (87m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
1:00pm - 2:26pm: Shorts Series 6 (84m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
1:10pm - 2:52pm: The Exile of the Sea (El Exilio del Mar) with Stolen Fish - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
1:15pm - 2:37pm: Honor Student - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
3:30pm - 5:02pm: Webseries 2 (91m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
3:35pm - 5:00pm: Shorts Series 7 (85m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
3:35pm - 5:13pm: Bedroom Chains - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
3:55pm - 5:23pm: Shorts Series 15 (88m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
6:15pm - 7:51pm: A Son (Un Fils) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
6:20pm - 7:49pm: Carajita - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
6:25pm - 7:53pm: A Star Without A Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
7:00pm - 9:15pm: Centerpiece Screening - Strange Love - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
8:50pm - 10:58pm: First - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
8:55pm - 10:42pm: Chee$e - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
9 - 10:44pm: A Song From The Dark - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
10:15pm - 11:34pm: Shorts Series 19 (79m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9

Thursday February 16, 2023
1:05pm - 2:42pm: Men Don't Cheat - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
1:10pm - 2:26pm: The Bright Path: The Johnny Bright Story with Image of an American: Frederick Douglass and the Right to Vote - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
1:10pm - 2:50pm: Elephant - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
1:15pm - 2:37pm: Shorts Series 8 (82m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
3:35pm - 5:01pm: Shorts Series 4 (86m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
3:40pm - 5:24pm: Hazing - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
3:50pm - 5:17pm: Shorts Series 17 (89m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
3:55pm - 5:20pm: Storming Caesars Palace - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
6:15pm - 7:34pm: Shorts Series 2 (79m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
6:30pm - 8:12pm: Xalé, The Childhood Wounds - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
6:50pm - 8:22pm: God Said Give 'Em Drum Machines - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
8:35pm - 10:44pm: Dancing the Twist in Bamako - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
8:55pm - 10:34pm: Webseries 1 (99m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
9:15pm - 10:48pm: On The Line: The Richard Williams Story - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
9:30pm - 10:50pm: Let The Church Say with D.A.D. - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9

Friday February 17, 2023
1:00pm - 2:35pm: Born in Chicago with M.I.D. Notes - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
1:00pm - 2:28pm: Shorts Series 15 (88m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
1:05pm - 2:33pm: Hyde Park - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
1:15pm - 2:49pm: Orango - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
3:35pm - 4:57pm: Roux's Blues: Promise Me, You'll Be There - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
3:35pm - 4:55pm: Four Walls with The Talk, Innocence and Daze - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
3:35pm - 5:19pm: A Song From The Dark - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
3:50pm - 5:22pm: Kansas City Dreamin' with When I Get Grown-Reflections of a Freedom Rider - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
5:55pm - 7:39pm: Hazing - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
6:00pm - 7:35pm: Talia's Journey (Le Voyage de Talia) with ...with salt - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
6:20pm - 7:34pm: The Five Demands - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
6:25pm - 8:00pm: Birthing Justice - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
8:30pm - 10:00pm: Eve After Dark - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
8:35pm - 10:12pm: Chevalier (Encore) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
8:40pm - 10:05pm: Shorts Series 13 (85m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
8:45pm - 10:16pm: Fantastic Negrito: Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15

Saturday February 18, 2023
11:15am - 1:10pm: BAJI Short Series (79m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
12:00pm - 1:20pm: Shorts Series 20 (80m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
1:10pm - 2:40pm: Music Is My Life - Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
1:15pm - 2:27pm: The Africologist: Chronicles of Africa - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
2:10pm - 4:05pm: Bo Legs: Marvin Arrington, Sr., An Atlanta Story - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
2:25pm - 3:47pm: Rye Lane - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
3:20pm - 4:56pm: Butterfly in the Sky - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
3:40pm - 5:11pm: CSULA Presentation | The Five Demands - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
4:50pm - 6:18pm: Little Richard: I Am Everything - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
6:00pm - 7:56pm: LACMA Presentation 3 - Dark Water: This House (Cette Maison) & Miryam Charles Shorts - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
6:15pm - 7:51pm: Fenom with ifine (Beauty) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
6:30pm - 8:30pm: PAFF Spoken Word Fest - Baldwin-Hills Crenshaw Plaza Bridge
7:20pm - 9:04pm: Aisha - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
7:30pm - 9:00pm: We Are Still Here - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
8:55pm - 9:56pm: Wade in the Water: A Journey into Black Surfing and Aquatic Culture - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
9:00pm - 10:39pm: King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
10:00pm - 11:46pm: Chee$e - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
10:00pm - 11:14pm: The Five Demands - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15

Sunday February 19, 2023
11:30am - 12:57pm: Shorts Series 17 (89m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
1:00pm - 2:43pm: Black Mothers Love & Resist - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
2:00pm - 4:00pm: PAFF Fashion Show - Baldwin-Hills Crenshaw Plaza Bridge
2:00pm - 3:44pm: Aisha - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
2:00pm - 4:00pm: Nate Parker Foundation Presents: Remote Screening & Panel - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
3:00pm - 5:00pm: LACMA Presentation 4 - Black Labor: Soleil Ô & Atlantiques - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
3:20pm - 4:56pm: Fenom with ifine (Beauty) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
4:45pm - 6:24pm: King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
5:00pm - 6:31pm: Fantastic Negrito: Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
6:00pm - 7:25pm: Shorts Series 13 (85m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
6:30pm - 8:30pm: Closing Night - TBA - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
7:25pm - 9:13pm: Our Father, the Devil - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
7:35pm - 9:25pm: The Honeymoon - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
8:30pm - 9:56pm: Shorts Series 4 (86m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
9:30pm - 11:18pm: Hargrove - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
10:15pm - 11:30pm: Santos - Skin to Skin - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
10:35pm - 11:56pm: Citizen Kwame - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14

Monday February 20, 2023
11:00am - 2:00pm: PAFF Filmmakers Awards Brunch - Baldwin-Hills Crenshaw Plaza Bridge
12:00pm - 1:20pm: Shorts Series 3 (80m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
12:30pm - 1:54pm: Shorts Series 18 (84m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
1:00pm - 2:32pm: Under the Fig Trees - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
3:00pm - 4:26pm: Butterfly in the Sky - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
3:30pm - 5:06pm: Shorts Series 12 (96m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
5:30pm - 6:52pm: Shorts Series 8 (82m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
5:30pm - 7:18pm: You're My Favourite Place - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
6:00pm - 7:30pm: We Are Still Here - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
6:10pm - 7:39pm: Shorts Series 10 (89m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14
7:55pm - 9:49pm: The Pastor and the Revolutionary (O Pastor e o Guerrigeiro) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #13
8:20pm - 9:52pm: Kansas City Dreamin' with When I Get Grown-Reflections of a Freedom Rider - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #9
8:30pm - 9:42pm: Shorts Series 5 (73m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #15
8:40pm - 10:11pm: Shorts Series 14 (91m) - Cinemark-Baldwin Hills Screen #14

ArtFest
The PAFF ArtFest features over 100 established and emerging fine artists and unique craftspeople from all over the world. With an artistic aesthetic that is rooted in Africa and its Diaspora, featured artists present their creative works using oil on canvas, watercolor and pastels, acrylic paper, glass, ceramics, metal, cloth, plastic, wax, wire, leather, and stone. In addition to fine art and one-of-a-kind crafts, the ArtFEST also features the best in designer and traditional fashions, jewelry, home decor, fashion accessories and so much more!

Representing the perfect mix of both art and culture, the PAFF ArtFEST brings out over 100K+ visitors from all over Los Angeles, across the country, and around the world. It is an experience in and of itself that guarantees something for every taste and every budget.

Hours
Monday - Saturday: 10:00am - 9:00pm
Sundays: 11:00am - 7:00pm

Location: Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw Plaza

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Date: February 9 - 20, 2023

Location:
Directors Guild of America Theatre Complex - 7920 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90046
Cinemark Baldwin Hills Crenshaw and XD - 4020 Marlton Ave Los Angeles, CA 90008
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza - 3650 West Martin Luther King Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90008

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