Jason Silverman is an award-winning film producer and longtime festival director. He has produced large-scale events for the Smithsonian, the Lensic Center for the Arts, the Tribeca Film Festival and the Lannan Foundation. He is currently Cinematheque Director at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, and former Artistic Director of the Taos Talking Picture Festival. He received Santa Fe’s Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2014, and is a two-time Sundance Fellow.
In 1952, Ousmane Sembène, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller of a new Africa. Sembène! tells the unbelievable true story of the self-taught “father of African cinema,” who fought enormous odds to return African stories to Africa. Sembène! uses rare archival footage and more than 100 hours of exclusive materials to craft...
In 1952, Ousmane Sembène, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller of a new Africa. Sembène! tells the unbelievable true story of the self-taught “father of African cinema,” who fought enormous odds to return African stories to Africa. Sembène! uses rare archival footage and more than 100 hours of exclusive materials to craft...