Mississippi Damned DVD Pre-Sale Begins Friday, November 12th, 2010

Official Website: www.MississippiDamned.com/

Own a Copy of the Award-Winning
Mississippi Damned
Pre-Sale Begins

Just in time for the 2010 holiday season, you can now purchase the Mississippi Damned DVD for your home collection! Own the film that made a definite mark on the film festival circuit, winning 15 awards at festivals all over the country. Honors include: Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the 2009 Chicago Film Festival, Grand Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the 2009 American Black Film Festival, and Grand Jury Award for Outstanding U.S. Dramatic Feature at the 2009 Outfest Film Festival.

The DVD is full of GREAT features including Deleted Scenes, the Trailer, Behind The Scenes Material, Interviews from the Film Festival Circuit, and Tina Mabry's first short, Brooklyn's Bridge to Jordan, which stars Jossie Harris Thacker who plays Charlie in Mississippi Damned.

Starring Malcolm Goodwin (Leatherheads, American Gangster), Michael Hyatt (The Wire), Malcolm David Kelley (Antwone Fisher, Lost), Tessa Thompson (For Colored Girls), Simbi Kali Williams (3rd Rock from the Sun), and DB Woodside (24,The Temptations), the film has been cited as one of "the best ensemble casts of the year."

Buy now to get the pre-sale price of $14.95 + shipping and handling! Take advantage of this great price as it will go up at the end of the pre-sale period. DVDs will be available for shipping on December 3rd, 2010 in plenty of time for the holiday season.

Just visit www.MississippiDamned.com and visit the store to get your copy today! (Navigate to the STORE tab)

Mississippi Damned Awards and Honors

• Jury Award for Best American Independent Film: Philadelphia Film Festival/CineFest 2009
• Jury Award for Narrative Breakthrough Film: 2009 Atlanta Film Festival 365
• Audience Award for Best Feature Film: NewFest 2009
• Grand Jury Award for Best Actor (Tessa Thompson): 2009 American Black Film Festival
• Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature: 2009 American Black Film Festival
• Grand Jury Award for Outstanding U.S. Dramatic Feature Film: Outfest 2009 Film Festival
• Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature Film: 2009 Urbanworld Film Festival
• Jury Award for Best Feature Film: 2009 Chicago International Film Festival
• Jury Award for Best Screenplay: 2009 Chicago International Film Festival
• Jury Award for Best Supporting Actress (Jossie Harris Thacker): 2009 Chicago International Film Festival
• The Cheryl Dunye First Lady Award for Writing & Directing at the 2009 QBC Film Festival
• The Cheryl Dunye First Lady Award for Producing & Editing at the 2009 QBC Film Festival
• Mississippi Damned's Writer/Director, Tina Mabry & Cinematographer, Bradford Young Named in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film
• 2009 AfterEllen.com Visibility Award for Best Festival Release with Lesbian/Bi Characters
• 2010 Black Reel Award for Best Independent Feature Film
• Audience Award for Best Feature Film: Hayti Heritage Film Festival 2010
• Tina Mabry Named 2010 United States Artist James Baldwin Fellow.

Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR.tv) Website Launch by Chimpanzee Productions, Inc

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Digital Diaspora Family Reunion: One World, One Family™


DDFR is a multimedia community engagement initiative where individuals are invited to explore the rich and revealing historical narratives found within their own family photograph collections. The highlight of the initiative includes a touring DDFR Roadshow, combining the best features of PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” and National Public Radio’s “StoryCorps,” that activates Black family photographic archives; and DDFR.TV, an online Portal that creates community across time and space. DDFR brings to the forefront stories and histories suppressed and/or hidden that show the fullness of Who We Are. By uncovering the little known history of our African American and African Diasporic families and relatives, this important and timely project provides a gathering place where all these lost, neglected and discarded shards of history can once again be seen, shared and appreciated. The goal of the DDFR initiative is to break down barriers between people and bring them together around the cultivation of their shared values and experiences. Conceived and founded by Chimpanzee Productions, Inc., with support from National Black Programming Consortium, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Cross Currents Foundation, Fledgling Fund, Nathan Cummings Foundation and others, DDFR.TV hopes to become the premiere web portal at the intersection of Black photography and the past, present and future of the African Diaspora.