NAME OF FESTIVAL: Los Angeles Amazigh Film Festival
SINCE: 2009
WHERE: Los Angeles, CA
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The mission of the Amazigh Film Festival is to promote and celebrate the North African Amazigh (Berber and Tuareg) culture by offering documentaries and films created by Amazigh artists, directors and producers , subtitled in English, to various anglophone audiences in America. Each year, a selection of the best productions from Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, the Canary Islands (Guanches), the Sahara Desert, Mali and Niger (Tuareg people) has been presented in Los Angeles, New York and Boston.
The fourth Amazigh Film Festival returns to Los Angeles, Saturday April 21 and Sunday April 22, 2012, with documentaries, films, art, music and food of indigenous North Africa, the Berber and Tuareg cultures of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, the Canary Islands, Egypt and the Sahara desert. In keeping with the Moroccan theme selected for this year, the event will open with a montage of photos of Chechaouen, Northern Morocco city of the Rif Mountains, created […]
In 2007, Tazzla Institute initiated a new project in keeping with its commitment to educate American audiences about the African Amazigh (Berber and Tuareg) culture, “The Los Angeles Amazigh Film Festival.” The third annual celebration of this festival will occur on Saturday, October 30, 2010 (Amazigh calendar year 2960). The Festival, sponsored by the Department of Cultural Affairs, city of Los Angeles, the Amazigh Cultural Association in America (ACAA), and the Hagan Law Firm of […]