African Film - Films from Africa and the African diaspora

Welcome to the ArtMattan Productions' web site. We distribute films that focus on the human experience of black people in Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America and Europe. All these films were shown during our annual African Diaspora Film Festival in New York. Please browse around.

ArtMattan Productions is proud to announce the acquisition of the US rights to the wonderful musical documentary Youssou N'Dour: Return to Goree directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud.

Because jazz is the miraculous product of the horror of slavery, Youssou N'Dour returned to the slave route and the music they created, in search of new inspirations.

ArtMattan Productions is proud to announce the acquisition of Dry Season / Daratt by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun from Chad, Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival 2006, Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival 2006

"Using a simple storytelling style that grows stronger with each passing scene, Dry Season draws the viewer into its small two-character drama set in post-war Chad, while it offers a deep reflection on injustice and frustrated revenge" -Deborah Young, Variety

ArtMattan Productions is pleased to announce the acquisition of the North American rights to the beautiful musical documentary Maria Bethania: Music is Perfume directed George Gachot. Official selection Locarno, Berlin, and Seattle film festivals.

A monumental figure in Brazilian music receives an in-depth profile in Maria Bethania: Music Is Perfume. Pic sticks to musical side of the best-known woman exponent of the 1970s movement known as tropicalia, and that works fine, as the gray-maned diva has plenty to say in that department. . ~ Ken Eisner - Variety

AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL

See our African Dispora Film Festival web site.

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events | about us | contact us | links

e-mail info@africanfilm.com for general inquiries.

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