(Character Design: Frank Espinoza) REDISCOVERING KATE CAREW, a 60-minute historical documentary and multi-platform digital media project on Mary Williams (1869-1961), known by her pseudonym as Kate Carew, the most notable American female caricaturist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose caricatures were lost for almost a century until […]
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PROJECTS: 2011
 The upcoming 2011 activities of Jaffa Films, LLC focus on several independent documentary projects, Real Life television programming and an animated web series w/Jaffa Media Works.  Check Jaffa Films, LLC news page for more project information.
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Coming in 2010:
‘The Sweet Science’, Check films page for more info/http://www.vimeo.com/8558525 (Photo courtesy, Shealah Craighead) ‘Rediscovering Kate Carew’ Check films page for more info/ or http://www.vimeo.com/8560565 (Caricature courtesy, The Kate Carew Estate ) DANCEHALL 101: Produced by Jaffa Films/JMW in association with TLM productions. Welcome to Dancehall 101, a show about Dancehall, […]
CARMEN & GEOFFREY
Screening, Q&A with filmmakers and reception Sat, Apr 10, 2010 • 4:00 pm • $10 • The Gatehouse This film is about the work of American artists, Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder who stepped forward in the 1950’s to play a vital part in the newly energized world of […]
Some of our favorite things..
May your holiday season and 2010 be filled with these things!! Click on title and leave a holiday message. xoxoxo….Jaffa Films~
DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL
AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL December 3rd-December 5th @ The Theatre/The Riverside Church. Â http://www.theriversidechurchny.org/theatre/programs.php?p=african
“HEART OF THE CITYâ€
A BET NEWS EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTARY ON OBESITY IN BLACK AMERICA PREMIERING SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, AT 10:00 P.M.* * BET News will take viewers straight to the capital of the most obese state in the country, Jackson, Mississippi to examine why African-Americans are disproportionally more obese then other Americans. It reveals […]
THE LANGUAGE OF FILM
By Michael Wohl The Language Of Film Film and video programs are efforts at communicating and just like speaking English, tapping out Morse code, or waving semaphores, there is a whole language that can be learned including words, phrases, grammar, punctuation, rules, and common practices. And like any other language, […]
30 for 30
To mark its 30th anniversary, ESPN has commissioned 30 documentaries on stories that have significantly altered or elevated the world of athletics over the last three decades.  Produced by Maysles Films for ESPN Films ‘30 for 30.’ Directed by Albert Maysles and Bradley Kaplan. Muhammad Ali in the practice ring […]