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Director Charles Burnett discusses his career with Director Eriq La Salle. - photos by Robert Hale - click images for larger view.

From February 7-18, 2008, the 16th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival (PAFF) returned to Los Angeles. Each year the PAFF presents over 175 films from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, the South Pacific and Canada, all showcasing the diversity and complexity of people of African descent. The DGA has served as a sponsor of the festival for more than a decade.

As part of our sponsorship, on Thursday, February 10, 2008 the Guild presented “A Conversation with Charles Burnett.” Burnett is the director of the indie classics Killer of Sheep, To Sleep with Anger, and the upcoming Red Soil. Burnett’s features My Brother’s Wedding and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation, and his short film When it Rains were screened at the festival. Director Eriq La Salle (Without a Trace, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) moderated the conversation.

On Monday, February 14, 2008, PAFF filmmakers were invited to a breakfast in the atrium of DGA headquarters where Directors Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou, Talk to Me), Vondie Curtis-Hall (Gridlock’d, Waist Deep), and DGA Alternate Board member Carl Weathers (For the People, Not Now, Kitty) spoke to them about the advantages of DGA membership.

Directors Vondie Curtis-Hall, Kasi Lemmons, and DGA Alternate Board member Carl Weathers address the PAFF Filmmakers at the DGA breakfast

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