Cassandra Freeman  has Rihanna to thank for tapping into her inner superwoman for Kinyarwanda.  “I would listen to ‘Run This Town’  to get into character” the actress shares. Freeman plays Lt. Rose, a tough as nails soldier, whose mission is to protect a group of refugees during the height of the Rwandan genocide.   The character […]

What do you when you find yourself falling in love while your country is being destroyed? The new film, KINYARWANDA, paints a portrait of that very predicament. Set in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, two people, Jean and Patrique, find themselves drawn to each other as Rwanda weathers indescribable violence. The film and its director, […]

Director Ava DuVernay continues the revolution in black cinema with KINYARWANDA, the second release of the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM).  AFFRM’s first release, I Will Follow, directed by DuVernay (starring Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Omari Hardwick), won the 2010 UrbanWorld Film Festival Award for Best Narrative Feature, and received glowing reviews from critics and […]