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MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA, PRIORITY AFRICA NETWORK, and ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY & CULTURAL CENTER PRESENT

AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM CLUB AT MOAD | FINDING SALLY

Join us for our monthly series, The African Diaspora Film Club. Modeled after our African Book Club, we will meet once a month to discuss a film that we have all viewed in advance of the discussion. The conversation will be moderated by Cornelius Moore, co-director of California Newsreel and film series curator at MoAD.

We will be choosing a selection of films, some previously screened at MoAD. You may have already seen it, or this may be your first introduction. In either case, join us for a lively discussion of the film.

This month we will be discussing FINDING SALLY (2020, Tamara Mariam Dawit, 57 mins). You will receive instructions to join via zoom after you sign up here. Look for an email from MoAD after you sign up, if you don’t receive it in your inbox, look in your spam or junk mail.

We will not be screening the film. You can watch FINDING SALLY in advance preceding the conversation as part of AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange on World Channel or on PBS.

Director Tamara Mariam Dawit will join us for the discussion.

FINDING SALLY tells the incredible story of a 23-year-old woman from an upper-class family who became a communist rebel with The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party. Idealistic and in love, Sally got caught up in her country's revolutionary fervor and landed on the military government's most wanted list. She went underground and her family never saw her again.

Four decades after Sally's disappearance, Tamara Dawit pieces together the mysterious life of her Aunt Sally. She revisits the Ethiopian Revolution and the terrible massacre that followed, which resulted in nearly every Ethiopian family losing a loved one. Her quest leads her to question notions of belonging, personal convictions and political ideals at a time when Ethiopia is going through important political changes once again.

Learn more about FINDING SALLY and watch a trailer here

Tamara Mariam Dawit is an Ethiopian-Canadian producer and director. Her most recent film is the award-winning documentary FINDING SALLY which premiered in 2020 at Hot Docs. She is currently producing the feature documentary MADE IN ETHIOPIA and two Ethiopian feature dramas.

In addition to producing, Tamara works as an advisor in the screen sector on programming and policies to address equity and inclusion. In Canada, she is a founding board member of the Racial Equity Media Collective and in Africa of Ethiopia Creates and the East Africa Screen Collective. Tamara was a resident in Docs in Progress, the Logan Non-Fiction Residency and is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents, Durban Talents, Doha Producers Lab, Rotterdam Lab, Apostle's, and EAVE.

This program is presented in partnership with Priority Africa Network (PAN) and the Ethiopian Community & Cultural Center (ECCC)

The African Diaspora Film Club is presented in partnership with Black Public Media

Black Public Media (BPM), formerly known as National Black Programming Consortium develops, produces, funds, and distributes media content about the African American and global Black experience. Our mission is to commit to a fully realized expression of democracy and we accomplish this by supporting diverse voices through training, education, and investment in visionary content makers.

For 40 years, BPM has addressed the needs of unserved and underserved audiences. BPM continues to address historical, contemporary, and systemic challenges that traditionally impede the development and distribution of black stories.

Funding has been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

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