Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell is an LA-based film historian and critic, author of "Progressive Hollywood: A People’s Film History of the United States," and co-author of "The Hawaii Movie and Television Book." He has written for Variety, Television Quarterly, Cineaste, New Times L.A., and other publications. Rampell lived in Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaii, and Micronesia, reporting on the nuclear-free and independent Pacific and Hawaiian Sovereignty movements.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell

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Pan African Film Festival 2024: ‘Moments,’ ‘Maharlika,’ and ‘Black Best Friend’
March 21, 2024 By Ed Rampell
The L.A. premiere of writer/director Malachi Rivers’s Moments shatters stereotypes regarding African Americans in his 9-episode digital series of shorts that are each under 13 minutes long.
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Pan African Film Festival: ‘This is Lagos’
March 20, 2024 By Ed Rampell
Arguably the best thing about PAFF is that it provides U.S. theatergoers with the opportunity to see films about Mother Africa by Africans, from a decidedly continental perspective.
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Pan African Film Festival 2024: ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
March 18, 2024 By Ed Rampell
You don’t need to smoke a spliff beforehand (or during) in order to enjoy the highly entertaining Bob Marley: One Love. Ya mon!
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Pan African Film Festival: ‘Kipkemboi’ and ‘A Double Life’
March 14, 2024 By Ed Rampell
At PAFF, films span the spectrum from Oscar nominees to hard-to-find gems from Africa, the Caribbean, America and beyond that L.A. viewers are unlikely to be able to see at any other venue.
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Pan African Film Festival 2024: ‘Me Captain’ and ‘One Person, One Vote?’
March 11, 2024 By Ed Rampell

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‘Right in the Eye,’ a live movie concert of George Méliès films
March 7, 2024 By Ed Rampell
Although Americans may have largely forgotten about Georges Méliès, every moviegoer owes this French motion picture pioneer an immense debt of gratitude.
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Pan-African Film Festival: The disappearing Black farmers of America
March 1, 2024 By Ed Rampell
For anyone interested in all the details of Black-owned farms, this is the movie for them.
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Pan-African Film Festival: Growing up Black in the GDR
February 28, 2024 By Ed Rampell
From Berlin to Benin and Togo - and back again.
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