Djibril Diop Mambéty's
Hyènes (1992) has been chosen by nationally
reknowned critic Roger Ebert to be show at his Roger Ebert's
4th Overlooked Film Festival Festival. See below for
details.
To me this is a great posthumous
honor because Ebert consciously places an African film within a global
commercial cinematic context of films that do not appeal to market
sense but are worthy of wider viewing. That is what this
Roger Ebert's 4th Overlooked
Film Festival Festival
April 24-28, 2002, Virginia
Theatre,
Champaign,
Illinois
http://www.ebertfest.com/
"Good films are
an endangered species. Unless a movie opens on 3,000 screens with a
multi-million-dollar advertising campaign, it may not be able to
attract the attention of its potential audience. Moviegoers have to be
attentive and curious to know that a small film in a perhaps obscure
venue may be the best film playing in town. Too often they cave in to
the publicity and go to the latest Hollywood no-brainer. The purpose
of the Overlooked Film Festival is to provide a second chance for
wonderful but overlooked films and genres, and to bring to
Urbana-Champaign and downstate Illinois some of the most creative
artists in the world of cinema"
Roger Ebert
Critic, Chicago
Sun-times
--
Floyd Webb
e22 digital, Inc.
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