MIXED ROOTS FILM & LITERARY FESTIVAL
HOSTED BY MIXED CHICKS CHAT
JUNE 12-14, 2008, AT THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, one of the best parts about living in this city is our Fusion Culture. LA might not be known for it’s long standing roots, but it is a place where millions of people from all different backgrounds come together to make their dreams come true and get stuck in some of the worst traffic in the world.

The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival will be held in downtown LA to celebrate mixed race and cultural experiences through the art of storytelling. Many award winning authors and filmmakers will be in attendance to help bring together film and book lovers, innovative artists, and families interested in the Mixed racial and cultural experience.

Topics that will be discussed are transracial/cultural adoption, the recent amendment allowing for same sex marriage, interracial/cultural relationships, and much more.

The Festival highlights include:

• Acclaimed author Rebecca Walker will present the Opening Address for the
  kick-off Loving Day party, celebrating the Supreme Court decision which
  affirmed the right of people of different races to marry.
• Hapa artist and filmmaker Kip Fulbeck will receive the Festival’s inaugural
  Loving Prize for his dedication to inspirational storytelling of the Mixed
  experience during the Friday night Award Presentation.
• Sundee Frazier, recipient of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent
  Award, will read from her children’s book Brendan Buckley’s Universe and
  Everything In It during a Multiracial Family Playgroup hosted by iPride.
• The Festival includes author readings by novelist Susan Straight (A Million
  Nightingales Pantheon) memoirist Lori Tharps (Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love &
  Spain Simon & Schuster); poet Neil Aitken (Winner of the Philip Levine Prize,
  The Lost Country of Sight, Anhinga Press forthcoming), and non-fiction writer
  Kim-Marie Walker (Zebras from Heaven: Celebrating Interethnic Relationships)
  among others.
• The Festival will also screen a series of acclaimed films including: Octavio
  Warnock-Graham’s award-winning documentary Silences, Yohei Suzuki’s
  documentary Our Pride: The Spirits of Black Japanese in Georgia, and Danish
  journalist Alex Frank Larsen’s documentary Slaves in the Family.
• Crossing the Line: Multiracial Comedians (producers Teja Arboleda and Darby Li
  Po Price), a celebrated feature documentary, will close the Festival.

All the events are free and open to the public. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged. On-line registration is now open at www.mixedrootsfilmandliteraryfestival.org.

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