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DETROIT, April 21, 2023 ~ The Detroit Free Press will be bringing back its film festival for its tenth anniversary.
The Freep Film Festival returns from April 26 to 30, both online and at various venues around Downtown Detroit. The festival will host 19 feature-length films and 19 short films that explore the lives of artists and the experiences of Asian Americans.
The festival has been running since 2013 and has hosted hundreds of feature-length and short documentaries. The films featured showcase Michigan stories and expanded the paper’s journalistic vision, according to the Freep.
THIS WEEK on #AmericanBlackJournal: @SHDetroit talks with @ElvisMitchell.
They’ll talk about Mitchell’s new film “Is That Black Enough For You?!?” showing at the @freep film festival later this month.
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TONIGHT 7:30p ET: @BryceHuffman313 on Detroit’s #airpollution. We talk with @Freep_Film_Fest filmmakers @SuzanneJoeKai and Brian Kaufman. A preview of @InterlochenArts‘ Cinderella. Plus, the #OneDetroitWeekend.
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(CONTINUED) Some of the featured films spotlight topics, including how images impact society in “And The King Said, What A FANTASTIC MACHINE,” the 60-year career of actress Mary Tyler Moore in “Being Mary Tyler Moore,” and Highland Park’s Elvis Mitchell‘s exploration of Black people’s contribution to film in the 1970’s, “Is That Black Enough For You?!?”
There will also be a film series of documentaries made by Asian American directors, telling stories of Asian American communities and people from across the country. One of these films, “Free Chol Soo Lee,” tells the story of Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee, who was racially profiled and convicted of a San Francisco gang murder back in the 1970’s.
The full list of films being shown and the venues they will be played at can be found on the festival’s website.
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