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Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival Hosted by Mixed Chicks Chat June 12-14, 2008 at Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles

The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival will be held at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles, June 12-June 14, 2008, celebrating storytelling of the Mixed racial and cultural experience including that of transracial/cultural adoption and interracial/cultural relationships.
The Festival, hosted by Mixed Chicks Chat, is an inclusive event targeting the growing population of multiracial and multicultural individuals. The Festival brings together film and book lovers, innovative artists, and families interested in the Mixed racial and cultural experience.

Los Angeles, CA May 19, 2008 -- The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival will be held at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles, June 12-June 14, 2008, celebrating storytelling of the Mixed racial and cultural experience including that of transracial/cultural adoption and interracial/cultural relationships.

The Festival, hosted by Mixed Chicks Chat, is an inclusive event targeting the growing population of multiracial and multicultural individuals. The Festival brings together film and book lovers, innovative artists, and families interested in the Mixed racial and cultural experience.

Today, 7 percent of all marriages are interracial, according to the Census. More than 6.8 million individuals identify as Mixed.

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, on June 12, 2008 at 7 p.m. DJ Life and DJ Vika spin decades of dance floor classics. The party is held in conjunction with the 1000-person New York City Loving Day celebration hosted by Loving Day (www.lovingday.org) and World Up.

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.

Festival partners include: Japanese American National Museum; From the Heart Productions; Association for MultiEthnic Americans; Multiracial Americans of Southern California; iPride; and Loving Day.

Contact:Fanshen Cox

Phone:     310-712-1632

Email: mixedchicks@yahoo.com

Website: www.mixedrootsfilmandliteraryfestival.org

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