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500 Years Later (፭፻ ዓመታት በኋላ 500 ʿamätatə bähwala) is an independent documentary film directed by Owen 'Alik Shahadah, written by M. K. Asante, Jr. and released in 2005. It has won five international film festival awards in the category of Best Documentary (including) UNESCO "Breaking the Chains Award"). Other awards it has won include "Best Documentary at the Pan African (Los Angeles) and Bridgetown (Barbados) Film Festivals; Best Film at the International Black Cinema (Berlin) Film Festival; and Best International Documentary at the Harlem (New York) International Film Festival".
500 Years Later has received praise as well as controversy, both for the genre of the film (creative documentary), and its social-political impact with relation to race study. The film opened on February 28, 2005, at the Pan-African Awards (PAFF) and won Best Documentary at its premiere. It made its American television premiere on August 23, 2008, on TV One (Radio One), and Ethiopian Television premiere on October 27, 2007. It was shown nationally in South Africa on December 14, 2014, on SABC 2. In 2010, the sequel, Motherland, was released.
Original Release
02/24/2005
US Release
02/24/2005
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Kolfi Adu | Self - African Storyteller |
Sona Jobarteh | Self - Kora Player |
Hunter Adams III | Self - Neuroscientist |
Hakim Adi | Self - Historian |
Toyin Agbetu | Self - Ligali Media |
Mukasa Afrika | Self - Teacher at Lotus Academy |
Ras Kumasi | Self - Afruika Bantu School Teacher |
Adisa Alkebulan | Self - Lecturer |
Molefi Kete Asante | Self - Professor Temple University |
Afrar Afriyea | Self - Afruika Bantu Saturday School |
Directors
Writers
M.K. Asante, Owen Alik Shahadah
Cast
Name | Character |
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Kolfi Adu | Self - African Storyteller |
Sona Jobarteh | Self - Kora Player |
Hunter Adams III | Self - Neuroscientist |
Hakim Adi | Self - Historian |
Toyin Agbetu | Self - Ligali Media |
Mukasa Afrika | Self - Teacher at Lotus Academy |
Ras Kumasi | Self - Afruika Bantu School Teacher |
Adisa Alkebulan | Self - Lecturer |
Molefi Kete Asante | Self - Professor Temple University |
Afrar Afriyea | Self - Afruika Bantu Saturday School |
Sister Aya | Self - Afruika Bantu Saturday School |
Amiri Baraka | Self - Poet and Activist |
David Commissiong | Self - Pan-African Affairs Barbados |
Kevin Farmer | Self - Barbadian Historian |
Mighty Gabby | Self - Barbadian Cultural Ambassador |
Nelson George | Self - Playwright |
Asher Hoyles | Self - Teacher and Writer |
David Hutchinson | Self - CEO Pan-Grove Inc. |
Junkung Jobarteh | Self - University of the Gambia |
Dumar Johnson | Self - 'Mayor of Germantown' |
Producers
Name | Role |
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M.K. Asante | Executive Producer |
Zanita Huq | Executive Producer |
Momodou Madi Sillah | Executive Producer |
Ana Asante | Producer |
Makeda Coaston | Producer |
Louba Durand | Producer |
Maya Freelon | Producer |
Johara Iman | Producer |
Ako Mitchell | Producer |
Owen Alik Shahadah | Producer |
Sung-Woo Shin | Producer |