“Original landlords of the planet.” Chike Nwoffiah doesn’t just say it, he means it. The founder and festival director of the Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF) has spent the last 16 years pulling off what sounds, on paper, like a fever dream: an African film festival thriving in the tech capital of the world, where Black residents make up less than 3% of the population. Sixteen years later, the “impossible idea” has become one of America’s most quietly powerful cultural revolutions, a gathering where African and diasporic filmmakers don’t show up begging for space; they own it.
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