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The Seed screens in DC October 18th!
Back by popular demand! The Axumite Prophecy is upon us... come see the Seed!
Hosted by: joshua bee alafia and Tikher Teferra
The event will start on: October 18, 2009, 6:00 pm
And will end on: October 18, 2009, 8:00 pm
At Unification Church of Washington DC
1610 Columbia Rd. NW , Washington DC Washington DC
917 513 2949 theseedmovie@yahoo.com
Posted by: alafia
The Seed premiered at FESPACO and was nominated for the Paul Robeson Award for African Films in the Diaspora.
Synopsis:
Fikir, a ten year old street urchin, wakes up one morning after dreaming of an Angel, and finds an orange outside his make shift dwelling. After a bully steals his shoeshine rig, he is consoled by some other homeless youth and joins them in selling tissues. He interacts with an Angel who shows him his true nature, and becomes the prophet of the Golden Age. He reaches out to other young parents who are conceiving children who are destined to be prophets, sages and leaders.
Among the conceiving parents are a prostitute who doesn't know the father of he child, a couple from different social classes who elope, a model who must choose between her career and motherhood, and a social worker who works with HIV positive orphans who conceivs with a taxivan conductor/poet who wants to free the lions at the zoo.
the Seed trailer from joshua bee alafia on Vimeo.
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