Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival June 12, 2008

The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival will be held at the Japanese
American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles (369 East First
Street), 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. All events are free.

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 7pm. 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 in hosted by Loving Day (www.lovingday.org) and
World Up. Free drinks and dessert.

Hapa artist and filmmaker Kip Fulbeck will receive the Festival's
inaugural Loving Prize on Friday June 13, 2008, at 7pm, for his
dedication to inspirational storytelling of the Mixed experience during
the LIVE performance show featuring actors Maya Lilly, Esther Friedman,
Joe Hernandez-Kolski, and comedians Warren Hutcherson and Teja Arboleda.

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 on Saturday, June 14, 2008, at 10am,
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 on June 14, 2008, at 7pm.

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.

Official Website: http://www.mixedrootsfilmandliteraryfestival.org