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THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA GALLERY

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA GALLERY PRESENTS:

Tour Theme: “The Untold Story About A Place Called Black Hollywood”

The African American Cinema Gallery (AACG) is excited to announce its national tour being the first exhibit of its kind.  AACG will tour more than 20 states and more than 50 cities.  This tour will consist of presentations at colleges, public schools, museums, conventions, youth organizations, film festivals and conferences around North America.

AACG is an inspirational tribute to Black actors, actresses and authors whose creativity has inspired the nation throughout history.  It’s a touring multimedia presentation, which consists of an exhibit that covers numerous African American films, more than 100 actors and actresses, and many drama series and sitcoms.  It also includes essays, posters, news clippings, books, screenplays, exclusive children collectibles-dolls, action figures and cartoon characters, rare photos and famous quotes of great actors and actresses and much more.  This collection contains more than 100 one of a kind items of memorabilia.

The gallery’s mission is to develop racial pride and promote creativity.  AACG’s desire is to inspire the youth to have visions and turn these visions into reality.  AACG is an educational institute that provides enlightenment and cultural enrichment for our communities.  By seeing this gallery we hope to inspire people to appreciate the value of black film and literature.   “Through creative thinking, dreaming and turning that dream into a reality we can make a positive difference in the world,” said Len Gibson, founder and President/Founder (Chairman) of AACG.

Years of information have been provided that shares the history of African Americans in film and literature in various books and other sources of research.   Even with much success, the credit actors and actresses like: Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge, often get, is still not enough.  Poitier and Dandridge transformed the history of blacks in films from a study of pictures or parts or personalities to one of star dimensions.  “Our filmmakers-directors, producers and screenwriters take the word to another dimension of moving pictures and swelling sounds that engage all of our senses at once,” Essence Magazine.

Did you know that the first all black cast film was made in 1919 (“The Homesteader”) by filmmaker great Oscar Micheaux?  Did you know Cicely Tyson was the first dark complexion African American actress that became a mainstream reoccurring star which broke barriers for various actresses today (being dark was not one of Hollywood’s standards for a leading role in television and film in the early 1900’s)? Even though Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for her supporting role in “Gone With The Wind” in 1939 Hollywood still wasn’t ready to embrace dark complexion actors and actresses until much later.  The gallery highlights many surprising facts on great moments and unknown information throughout history.  “It’s unknown information that needs to be shared with everyone because without knowledge of our past there’s no positive stride into our future,” said Gibson.

We want to bring these actors, actresses and authors to the forefront.  By bringing the unnoticed to the forefront we hope to build an urge for further creativity in our youth regardless of color or creed.