{"id":8797,"date":"2016-09-26T12:49:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T17:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montrealblackfilm.mysites.io\/?p=8797"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:49:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T17:49:59","slug":"maya-angelou-and-still-i-rise-opens-the-12th-montreal-international-black-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montrealblackfilm.com\/en\/maya-angelou-and-still-i-rise-opens-the-12th-montreal-international-black-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"MAYA ANGELOU AND STILL I RISE opens the 12th Montreal International Black Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

MAYA ANGELOU AND STILL I RISE,<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack\u2019s,<\/strong><\/p>\n

opens the 12th<\/sup> Montreal International Black Film Festival <\/strong><\/p>\n

as a Quebec Premiere<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wednesday, 28 September 2016, Cin\u00e9ma Imp\u00e9rial, 7PM.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Montreal, 13 September 2016 \u2013 <\/strong>The Montreal International Black Film Festival (MIBFF), established by the Fabienne Colas Foundation, begins its 12th<\/sup> edition with the Quebec premiere of Maya Angelou and Still I Rise<\/em>, <\/strong>a documentary by Bob Hercules <\/strong>and Rita Coburn Whack. <\/strong>The opening ceremony will be on Wednesday, 28 September, 7PM at Cin\u00e9ma Imp\u00e9rial <\/strong>\u2013 in the presence of the film directors.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are pleased and proud to open the Festival with a documentary about \u2018an extraordinary woman.\u201d MIBFF<\/strong> president and Founder Fabienne Colas<\/strong> stated. \u201c\u2018Speak up\/Exprime-toi\u2019<\/strong> is this year\u2019s Festival underlying theme. Through the films we selected, this year\u2019s programming has attempted to showcase a story, a person, a movement that made itself known, overcame conventions, or demonstrated a willingness to make demands and change the state of affairs. We couldn\u2019t have chosen a more courageous and expressive model than Dr. Maya Angelou,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n

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Maya Angelou and Still I Rise<\/em><\/strong> is the first documentary focusing on the poet, writer, actor, dancer, and civil rights activist who became an emblematic figure of American history. Friends in Dr.\u00a0Angelou\u2019s inner circle, with their unmatched access to her life, are taking this opportunity to tell the world about this great woman and her life journey. Maya Angelou and Still I Rise<\/em> <\/strong>is a skillful biography of a woman who became a global symbol for peace, humility, and freedom. This documentary allows us to uncover Dr. Angelou\u2019s lesser known fragments of her life that made her an exceptional woman in all the work she did.<\/p>\n

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“Most people know the surface persona of Maya Angelou as a writer, poet and civil-rights activist, but few know the amazing breadth of her personal life. A warm, celebratory documentary on the renaissance woman\u2026” – The Hollywood Reporter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“One of the foremost 20th-century shapers of an African-American literature and identity, the subject of \u201cMaya Angelou\u00a0and Still I Rise\u201d wore many hats in a long, complicated life that has been given valedictory treatment in\u00a0Bob Hercules<\/a> and Rita Coburn Whack<\/a>\u2019s documentary”. – Variety<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMaya Angelou: And Still I Rise<\/em>. The opportunity to spend time exploring the rich and complex life, as painful as it was joyous, of this exceptional writer was as nourishing as it sounds”. \u2013 Los Angeles Times<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat Coburn Whack and Hercules do so well is capture Angelou\u2019s power and elegance, which seems to have increased as she got older. No hagiography, it paints a portrait of a life lived to the full and dedicated to being true to oneself\u201d. \u2013 The Guardian<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The 12th<\/sup> <\/strong>Montreal International Black Film Festival<\/strong> (MIBFF), <\/strong>the brainchild of the Fabienne Colas Foundation, will be held from September 28 to October 2, 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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About the Montreal International Black Film Festival – MIBFF<\/h3>\n

Created in 2005 by the Fabienne Colas Foundation, the Montreal International Black Film Festival (MIBFF) is currently the largest film festival in Canada entirely dedicated to black reality from all four corners of the globe. It aims to offer the public the most spectacular productions in black cinema, in addition to being a place to debate the great cultural, social, and socio-economic issues facing society. The objective of the MIBFF is to promote the development of the independent film industry, and showcase more films on black realities across the world. The festival seeks to prioritize those other films: those films from here and from abroad that do not necessarily come under the spotlight, a new cinema that moves its audience and raises awareness \u2013 and a few eyebrows. And in doing so, the aim is to address issues and showcase art that makes you think and smile, and provokes, bewilders, and shocks you\u2014a new, fresh look at black cinema from all four corners of the globe! www.montrealblackfilm.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Keep on top of the latest festival news:<\/strong><\/p>\n

www.montrealblackfilm.com<\/a><\/p>\n

www.facebook.com\/blackfilmfestival<\/u> \/ www.twitter.com\/filmblackmtl \/<\/a> www.Instagram.com\/MontrealBlackFilmFest<\/a><\/p>\n

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#MIBFF16<\/p>\n

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For more information, interviews, and promotional material:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Press relations manager:<\/strong> Dominique Argant – presse@montrealblackfilm.com<\/a> \u2013 514\u00a0663-4588<\/p>\n

Coordinator (French-speaking):<\/strong>\u00a0Fadwa Lapierre –\u00a0fadwa@montrealblackfilm.com<\/a> \u2013 514\u00a0884-9545<\/p>\n

Press agent (English-speaking):<\/strong> Danny Payne – danny@montrealblackfilm.com<\/a> \u2013 514\u00a0621-8657<\/p>\n

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MAYA ANGELOU AND STILL I RISE, by Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack\u2019s, opens the 12th Montreal International Black Film Festival as a Quebec Premiere \u00a0 Wednesday, 28 September 2016, Cin\u00e9ma Imp\u00e9rial, 7PM. \u00a0 Montreal, 13 September 2016 \u2013 The Montreal International Black Film Festival (MIBFF), established by the Fabienne Colas Foundation, begins its 12th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montrealblackfilm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montrealblackfilm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montrealblackfilm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montrealblackfilm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montrealblackfilm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montrealblackfilm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montrealblackfilm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montrealblackfilm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montrealblackfilm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}