500 YEARS LATER- An epic multi-award winning documentary about the 500 YEARS LATER- An epic multi-award winning documentary about the African Diaspora journey from Slavery to now.
Dir: Owen ‘Alik Shahadah
“500 Years Late’ Winner of the Best Documentary Award, Pan-African Film Festival 2005 is fast becoming one of the most powerful documentaries by and on the African Diaspora this century.�- Focused magazine(USA)
�500 Years Later is more than a film but rather a transcontinental discussion between some the greatest and most articulate thinkers of the African global nation.�- Nommo (USA)
“500 Years Later captures the history, nobility, and victorious consciousness of African peoples all over the world. It is stunning in its breadth, magnificent in its depth, and brilliant in execution. This is sure to become a classic film!� - Dr. Molefi Asante, Founder of Afrocentricity
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Crime, drugs, HIV/Aids, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health and under development plagues people of African decent globally – Why? 500 Years Later from the onset of slavery and subsequent colonialism Africans are still struggling for basic freedom. Why?
Filmed in five continents, and over twenty countries, 500 Years Later engages the authentic, retrospective voice, told from the African vantage point of whom history has sought to silence by examining the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland.
Film stars Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Kimani Nehusi, Maulana Karenga, Paul Robeson Jr, Dr. Hakim Adi, Kimani Nehusi and many more from Africa and the Diaspora.
Duration: 108 min, 2005/ USA/UK
http://WWW.500YEARSLATER.COM
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