{"id":188,"date":"2012-06-26T11:14:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T11:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2012-06-26T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T11:14:57","slug":"african-american-film-festival-releasing-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting piece on FilmSlate about a new initiative for the release of African-American indie films, which fits in with some broader recent trends relating to the building of links between festival screenings and (at least relatively) wider theatrical openings.\u00c2\u00a0<em>I Will Follow<\/em> to become first title released by The African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM), described here as &#8216;a grass roots organization looking to increase exposure and get theatrical distribution for African-American independent movies.&#8217; Planning two such releases a year, so quite a modest initiative so far. Full article\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmslatemagazine.com\/filmmaking\/affrm-helping-african-american-indie-films-get-theatrical-distribution\">here<\/a>. Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.affrm.com\/\">AFFRM website<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and trailer for the film below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/?attachment_id=189\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-189\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-189\" title=\"I will follow poster\" src=\"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2012\/06\/I-will-follow-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2012\/06\/I-will-follow-poster.jpg 214w, https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2012\/06\/I-will-follow-poster-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I WILL FOLLOW Trailer #1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U3UMxpUm56w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting piece on FilmSlate about a new initiative for the release of African-American indie films, which fits in with some broader recent trends relating to the building of links between festival screenings and (at least relatively) wider theatrical openings.\u00c2\u00a0I Will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/?p=188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-industry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2rcRA-32","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gkindiefilm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}