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Pan-African Film and Television Festival Winners.

Spotted on my Google alerts from Times of the Internet  and Abugida Ethiopian American Information Center.

News of the winners of the Pan-African Film and Television.  Top prize went to the Ethiopian film “Teza” by director Haile Gerima took the Golden Stallion of Yennenga on Saturday for best film at the Pan-African Film and Television Festival.

 The second-place Silver Stallion went to South-Africa’s John Kani for “Nothing but the Truth”. Adapted from a play, it explores a librarian’s experiences with racism in South Africa during and after the apartheid era.

The Bronze Stallion went to audience favourite “Mascarades” (Masquerades), an Algerian comedy about a boy who invents an imaginary rich suitor for his narcoleptic sister.