The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966)

  • NR
  • 01/01/1966 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 40m

Overview

Official film of the festival, a gathering that laid crucial groundwork for pan-Africanist thinking. Directed by William Greaves, the prolific African American actor and filmmaker who left the US in the 1950s to train at the more liberal, welcoming National Film Board of Canada.

William Greaves

Director, Writer

Cast

William Greaves's headshot

William Greaves

Narrator

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