Festival of Mask

1982 24 min

Overview

Filmmaker Don Amis was one of the very few Black student filmmakers at UCLA (including Carroll Parrott Blue and Denise Bean) working in a documentary mode. In this film, preparations, parade and performances from the Craft and Folk Art Museum’s annual Festival of Mask illustrate L.A.’s diverse racial and ethnic communities (African, Asian, Latin American) expressing themselves through a shared traditional form.

Genres

Documentary

Production Countries

United States of America

Spoken Languages

English en

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Cast

Carmen Stetson

Crew

Don Amis

Director

Jennifer Amis

Writer

Posters

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