FOREWORD
XXXI. 2016 Black International Cinema Berlin
A Complexion Change / Transnational & Intercultural Diplomacy
An International Media Project (UNESCO)
“The Message
is Our Direction...”
“Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes.” - African Proverb
Searching...?!
Childhood, fairies, growing up, hope, time and vision, “A Complexion
Change”, are directions and energies, which have led Fountainhead® Tanz
Théâtre to develop, experience, accompany and support the forthcoming XXXI.
2016 Black International Cinema Berlin.
Time, winds of change and storms are what we humans experience, require and
devote ourselves to, creating constructive and otherwise stuff too and so,
we are sharing these experiences with ourselves, others and the world
through the XXXI. 2016 Black International Cinema Berlin.
Join us, as we and you, stumble towards progress!
“Yes, we can and yes, we better…” - Barack Obama and Donald Muldrow Griffith
“I may not make it if I try, but I damn sure won’t if I don’t…” - Oscar
Brown Jr.
Greetings and Welcome to our never ending and constantly expanding and
hopefully progressing vision of an example of a developing and sharing
society.
A Complexion Change has long been our created standard bearer for the
inevitable historical developments in our ever changing society, societies
and world!
We search for principles as guidelines toward human interaction, based on
preservation, caring, sharing, education, courtesy and love, which always
offer promising paths to human progress.
Talented filmmakers, seminar presenters and artists, whose visions are
consummated into visually artistic presentations, offer our viewers
perspectives toward lessons of humanity past, present and future which are
also the ambitions and undertakings of Fountainhead® Tanz Théâtre, Black
International Cinema Berlin, THE COLLEGIUM - Forum & Television Program
Berlin, “Footprints in the Sand?” Exhibition and Cultural Zephyr e.V.
All of which were initially creations of a group of four invited persons
from the USA to Berlin and a German colleague, who decided to establish
ongoing efforts which utilized our collective inculcation, acquired through
many years in various circumstances and subsequently added to current and
future efforts, thereby providing returns on the investments absorbed
through our lifelong experiences, to the societies in which we reside and
hopefully elsewhere as well!
Thank you for sharing your and our experiences, past, present, future and
welcome to the XXXI. 2016 Black International Cinema Berlin.
Prof. Donald Muldrow Griffith
