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Audience Favorite Narrative Feature Award results in three-way tie. Documentary on Black Panthers wins Audience Favorite Documentary Feature Award. ‘From A Whisper’ wins Best Narrative Feature Award.
The Pan African Film & Arts Festival filmmaker awards were hannded out in Los Angeles on Feb. 17 by actress and celebrity host CCH Pounder. (Photo by: Venus Bernardo)
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Feb. 17, 2010) -The Jury, Audience, Festival, and other special award-winners of the 2010 PAN AFRICAN FILM & FESTIVAL (PAFF) were announced tonight at the Festival’s Awards Ceremony hosted by actress CCH Pounder (Avatar) at the Culver Plaza Theatres (9919 Washington Blvd. Los Angeles). The Kenyan narrative FROM A WHISPER won for Best Narrative Feature. A three-way tie was announced for the Audience Favorite Narrative Award for films SOUL DIASPORA, A STING IN A TALE, and SPEED-DATING. The documentary on the L.A. Black Panthers 41ST & CENTRAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE L.A. BLACK PANTHERS won the Audience Favorite Documentary Award.
With the theme “Get Involved,” this year’s PAFF featured 135 films representing 36 countries, including 40 in competition, 64 feature length films, and 12 world premieres.
The films receiving Jur
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Wow! Columbus Short Reveals ‘Scandal’ Exit Was Due to His Cocaine Addiction
When Hollywood actor Columbus Short was removed from ABC hit series Scandal (click here if you missed it), a lot of people blamed it on the bad press he had been receiving but now Columbus Short has come out to reveal more about his exit from the show.
In a sensational new interview with Access Hollywood, the actor revealed that his being cut from the show was due to a previously undisclosed addition to cocaine.
Columbus Short stated, “I’ll be candid: I was struggling with drugs. I had a lot onmy plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life… I was doing cocaineand drinkinga lot, and trying to balance a 16-hour workschedulea day, and a family, and I just lost myself back then… And if we’re going to be fully transparent, they {Shonda Rhimes and Scandal cast} protected me and they held me down. And that was one of the real reasons – they just wanted me to get my stuff together. Sometimes the bottom has to be dropped out for you to really get it. So I moved to Atlanta. I’ve been living there for the last five months, five-and-a-half months, and it’s just been great. It’s been life-changing.”
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