PROGRAM OF THE FESTIVAL, 2010

LOS ANGELES AMAZIGH FILM FESTIVAL 2010

Program, Film Festival

From documentary "A Nomadic Journey"

Traditional musician - Northern Mali

Essakane Festival in the desert, Northern Mali

Photo extracted from documentary, "Footsteps , a Nomadic Journey"

June 25, 2010 - TAZZLA INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY ANNOUNCEMENT

It is indeed with great pleasure that we are able to announce a new agreement of partnership with the Amazigh Cultural Association in America (A.C.A.A., Director, Aomar Ben Slimane) in the presentation of the third annual Los Angeles Amazigh Film Festival 2010. A.C.A.A. has sponsored both past events in 2008 and 2009.

We will post more details in the near future. We are looking forward to a more extensive role to be played by members of A.C.A.A. , this year and in the future, and hope to be able to also sponsor the traveling of this festival to the East Coast in future years.

We have also entered into a preliminary partnership with the Kabbaz Theatre of the French Lycee of Los Angeles, (Director: Pierre Leloup) and have agreed to add our participation to several Berber and francophone film nights in Los Angeles through this association. More details will soon be available, and a special section will appear on this web site to cover any additional events of the L.A.A.F.F. in 2010 and 2011.

Asshak, Main Film, Third Los Angeles Amazigh Film Festival

We are pleased to invite you to the Third Annual Amazigh Film Festival to be held in Los Angeles, and in the U.S.

The Festival celebrates the creative energy of Berber and Tuareg artists, directors, producers, writers, actors, musicians, and cultural activists in the United States and abroad throughout Tamazgha, (Temust) , the Amazigh territory.

Helene E. Hagan, Director

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Films and documentaries from our Amazigh artists, and in our Tamazight language are many; however, English sub-titles are necessary for our American audiences, and it is far from easy to obtain documentaries and films that are in English or have English sub-titles.

This year's program will open with the video made available on the front page of this web site, created by Imazighen of Libya, which is 7min 40 long and will be played as the audience arrives in the theatre.

The Matinee (5:00 pm - 6:30 pm)will open up with an introduction by the president of Tazzla Institute and will present two documentaries: The documentary titled "Lost Art of the Sahara" offered by Bradshaw foundation is 17 minutes long. the documentary was made possible through the collaboration of Touaregs of Northern Niger. It will be followed by a second documentary, Footsteps to Africa: A Nomadic Journey (67 minutes) made possible through the participation of Touaregs of Northern Mali.

Alhassane Fongounou, Guitar Solo, 7:30 pm

TIDAWT Group, Musicians from Northern Niger

MATINEE PROGRAM

5:00 - 6:30 pm

Documentaries

The first documentary on the program is

"Lost Art of the Sahara" (Boilerplate Production and Bradshaw Foundation), on ancient Rock Art of northern Niger, with the participation of famed French archeologist Jean Clottes and Tuareg people of the region.

Duration: 17 minutes

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The second documentary selected is 67 minutes long. For textual information on the film maker, and this outstanding documentary, titled " Footsteps to Africa: A Nomadic Journey ,"

click here: http://www.footstepsafrica.com/flmkrs.html

For trailer, a short video presentation, click here:

http://www.footstepsafrica.com/film.html

Essakane Festival in the desert

Photo extracted from documentary

The Amazigh symbol is the AZA (Zed) letter of the Tifinagh Alphabet, which represents the ancient culture and modern international Amazigh Cultural Movement. The symbol is found in millenia old petroglyphs and rock art; today, it is representative of the Amazigh culture of North Africa.

TROUBADOUR ALHASSANE

PORTRAIT OF ALHASSANE FONGOUNOU BY LESLIE CLARK

The first documentary on the program is a 17 minute presentation, titled: "Lost Art of the Sahara" created by Boilerplate Production in association with Bradshaw Foundation Films, Geneva, Switzerland, archeologist and rock art expert Dr. Jean Clottes, and the participation of Tuaregs of Northern Niger (Air Mountains)

To view trailer provided by the Bradshaw Foundation on its web site, click on text below picture of Tuareg family , then click on ILectures:

Hasso Akotey

Tidawt Group, Northern Niger

Rachid Bouksim, Special Speaker, holding 2009 Tazzla Award

Main Documentary film on Tuaregs of Northern Niger

Asshak roughly translates as "Ethics of Honor"

Reception - Moroccan Mint Tea and finger food to be catered by CHAMEAU, INC. (7:00 pm)

Art Exhibit - The Tuareg Art of Leslie Clark. See special section on Art Exhibit

FILM 7:30 - 9:30 pm

Special Speaker: RACHID BOUKSIM, Director , Issni N'Ourgh Film Festival, Agadir, Morocco on the topic: "Role of women in Amazigh cinematography of Morocco."

SPECIAL GUITAR SOLO BY ALHASSANE FONGOUNOU, TIDAWT BAND, NIGER

The feature film this year is ASSHAK , Tales of the Sahara, 110 minutes.

Rare beauty of cinematography and sensitivity to the Tuareg culture of northern Niger characterizes this film, with Tamashek as original language, and English sub-titles.

Short Intermission

Concert : 9:45 - 10:15 pm

We are pleased to announce that two Amazigh musicians of the High Atlas of Morocco, Fatah Abbou and Mohamed Aoualou, who have created the group AZA in Santa Cruz, California,

have agreed to play a thirty minute set of traditional Amazigh music.

Click on image to learn more about Aza

Mohamed and Fattah on stage

Fattah Abbou, Aza Band

Mohamed Aoualou, Aza band

It is with great pleasure that we are including Fattah and Mohamed in our program, and are honored to present them in conjunction with the Los Angeles Amazigh Film Festival this year.

To purchase H. Hagan's book - Click on image below

TUAREG JEWELRY (PUBLISHED 2006)

The Los Angeles Amazigh Film Festival is a project of Tazzla Institute for Cultural Diversity, Burbank, Ca., 91506

e-mail: tazzla@earthlink.net