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(Greatest Message of All time)                        June 18, 2023

TO ALL FATHERS & FATHER FIGURES

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY !!!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY ALL FATHERS AND FATHER FIGURES

San Francisco-Today, Father's Day, at San Francisco's AMC Theatres Kabuki 8 in the Fillmore District of San Francisco where Ave Montague founded the festival, San Francisco Black Film Festival XXV, "25 Year of Resilience and Empowerment" will acknowledge two fathers who impacted its history. The SFBFF "Kali O'Ray My Dad is My Hero Award" and The SFBFF Jeff Adachi Social Justice Award in honor of O'Ray, who passed August 7, 2020 and Adachi who died February 22, 2019 will be presented.

The "My Dad Is My Hero Award" was instituted in 2011, with its first award going to Lionel Armstrong as nominated via an essay by his daughter, poet and writer Tiffany Gorman. The 2022 inaugural " Kali O'Ray My Dad is My Hero" Award recipient was The Alameda County Fathers Corps.

The 2019 inaugural "SFBFF Jeff Adachi Social Justice Award" was presented to Justin Givens for his Arizona based film Disparity, A Tale of Two PUSHAZ.

The film "Zinzun: A Revolutionary Activist" by Dennis Haywood and James Farr, recipient of the San Francisco Black Film Festival Jeff Adachi Social Justice Award was featured at the South African 43rd Durban International Film Festival, a partner of the San Francisco Black Film Festival since 2020.

https://www.pasadenanow.com/main/pasadena-filmmakers-take-the-story-of-pasadenan-michael-zinzun-to-the-south-africa-international-film-festival

SFBFF Family Legacy

Cree Ray, Executive Director of the San Francisco Black Film Festival Speaks with Justin Andrews of KPIX about feature film starring Marvel Studios' Black Panther Star Letitia Wright as “Mo” Washington, an intrepid Buffalo Soldier in “Surrounded” directed by Anthony Mandler, among other films of the San Francisco Black Film Festival, XXV, “25 Years of Resilience and Empowerment, Healing the World One Film At A Time” kicking off a yearlong celebration.

The San Francisco Black Film Festival is traditionally held during Black Music Month, Over Juneteenth and Father's Day Weekend.

(Click Image to Hear the interview. Also posted on "In the News" at https://www.sfbff.org/in-the-news)

LETITIA WRIGHT

STAR OF BLACK PANTHER:

WAKANDA FOREVER

STARS IN NEW RELEASE

"SURROUNDED"

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Black Panther’s Letitia Wright Stars as an

Intrepid & Heroic Female Buffalo Soldier

FATHER'S DAY AT SAN FRANCISCO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL

"SURROUNDED"

2:30 P.M. AT AMC KABUKI 8

PRECEDED BY

"A STRANGER'S STORY" & "THIRD BAPTIST CHURCH"

Get Family Friendly Priced Tickets-$10-ONLY ON THE WEBSITE WWW.SFBFF.ORG

Doors open at the AMC Kabuki 8 Theatre, 1881 Post Street, San Francisco 94115, at 12:30 p.m. and screening will begin at 1 p.m. as soon as the audience is seated. Photo Ops with filmmakers will be possible after the screenings. Please note that Ms. Wright will not be in attendance but she has sent a message to be shown before “Surrounded.”

The San Francisco Black Film Festival thanks sponsors: “Surrounded”; AAACC; The San Francisco Housing and Development Corporation; Hylife-Ocity Productions; SF Giants; The African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council; The New Community Leadership Foundation; AMC Theaters Kabuki 8; The Durban International Film Festival; Honey Art Studio ; and NOSACONN; For a complete list visit www.sfbff.org. There is still time to support individually or to become a sponsor as the anniversary will be celebrated through 2024. For more information contact Cree Ray, creeray@sfbff.org.

FATHER'S DAY FILMS ARE AT BOTH THE AMC KABUKI 8 & AAACC-- CHECK OUT ALL THE FILMS

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San Francisco City Hall Juneteenth Kick Off Celebration-Click Images for entire program on SFGOV TV.

EAST BAY NEWS...

OAKLAND, CA- The Congregation of Miracles of Faith Community Church, ELCA in East Oakland invites the public to join in the celebration of the retirement of its pastor, Reverend Dr. Greggory L. Brown, who has served the church and the community with his wife, author and poet, Mary Lessen Brown, for 20 years of his more than 40 years of service to The Lord Jesus Christ. It will be at the church, 3:00 p.m. on June 25th

Throughout his leadership at Miracles of Faith Community Church, Dr. Brown has utilized music to bring the community together around issues of spirituality, social justice and civil rights at various programs held over the years. Slated for the celebration are Grammy-nominated piano virtuoso Ricardo Scales; The Kev Choice Ensemble; Dorothy “Oh Happy Day” Morrison; Rev. Bill Combs; Derrick Hughes; Rob Collier; DeAnne Brewer; KJ Jackson; Sonny Fairley; Rodney Byrd; Rhonda Benin & Paul Tillman-Smith to date.

The Jazz concert will be followed by a champagne reception in the Fellowship Hall of Miracles of Faith Community Church.

Accolades, Tributes, Resolutions, and financial contributions for the on-going work of Miracles of Faith Community Church can be sent to 4335 Virginia Avenue, Oakland, CA 94607. Electronic donations can be made to: Miraclesoffaithlc@comcast.net on either www.paypal.com or www.zellepay.com.

News Release

https://tinyurl.com/NewsFreeJazzConcertforRevBrown

Invitation

https://tinyurl.com/MiraclesoffaithPastorRetires

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY FATHER

SP5 WYLEY WRIGHT JR. WHO PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE MARCH 9, 1964 FOR FREEDOM IN VIETNAM AS AN HONOR GUARD FOR THEN SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT S. MCNAMARA HAPPY HEAVENLY FATHER'S DAY. FOREVER MISSED YET OUR HEAVENLY FATHER'S WORDS COMFORT THE LOSS KNOWING WE SHALL ALL GAIN IF WE BELIEVE.

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Jackie Wright,

President of Wright Enterprises

Contact: jackiewright@wrightnow.biz

415 525 0410

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