Update on HOODOO Film: Mikyia mo (Greetings).. We just updated our page regarding our second film project: HOODOO: Akan Ancestral Religion in North America. The attached video which is a trailer for our ODUMAFO ANATO: Pedigree of the Diviner in the Hoodoo Tradition includes aspects of various topics that will be covered in the film and much more. Because of the nationwide quarantine we had to pause on filming. We initially paused a few months ago as we attended film festivals, won an award for Best Original Documentary for our first film and laid the foundation for our first annual film festival KANKYE - Conjure Film Festival. Our film festival will take place on November 7th in Washington, DC. We had planned to begin filming again in February/March. However, we are on hold until the end of this month. We are making plans for travel now for the end of April and into May and June to complete the filming. We will then go into the post production phase so the film will be ready for our festival in the fall. We are also working to inform other filmmakers to submit there films. Because of our award-winning effort on the first film the way is open for larger audiences for this film, especially since the screening will be at our own festival. We appreciate your contribution to our efforts to complete this film. Yeda ase.. HOODOO - Akan Ancestral Religion in North America Film - Crowdfund www.fundrazr.com/Hoodoo_Akan_Film Odwirafo

**Video: Odwirafo Announcement** Mikyia mo (Greetings).. We are having a special today for those who contribute to our HOODOO: Akan Ancestral Religion in North America Documentary Film crowdfund. You can receive the entire 6-week set of video classroom recordings of one or more of our seven courses in return for your contribution. Our seven courses are: DUBAAKO AKRADINBOSOM - Part 1 DUBAAKO AKRADINBOSOM - Part 2 HOODOO - Part 1 HOODOO - Part 2 NTOROTU SENEB - Part 1 NTOROTU SENEB - Part 2 HONAMSU All of these online courses are 6-week courses with the exception of HOODOO Part 1 which is a 4-week course. When you make a contribution via our crowdfund page just let us know which set of video archives you would like. For example if you did not have a chance to take HOODOO Part 2, we will send you the 6 links and passwords to the 6 video classroom sessions of that course. You can watch those video classroom sessions at any time. The same for the other courses. This special fundraising effort today will assist us with last minute travel expenses for our trip this week to Los Angeles for our first film festival and also to cover fees for submitting our film to a number of additional festivals whose deadlines are today, tomorrow and Yawda (thursday). Yeda ase (we thank you) to those who contributed on Awusida (sunday).. We are working to get our film and our culture out to our people all over the country and around the world. [We now have two options. Our regular crowdfund page and a new cashapp link] Contribute now and let us know what course archives you would like to receive: www.fundrazr.com/Hoodoo_Akan_Film CashApp: $odwirafo Odwirafo

Mikyia mo (Greetings).. We received a communication from the Kwanzaa Film Festival in New York this week that they are interested in screening our film. Their festival takes place during the week of Kwanzaa this year. This is the second film festival that we submitted our work to and the second acceptance. The first one being the Pembroke Taparelli Film Festival which is actually this week in Los Angeles, CA. As mentioned previously our acceptance is significant in the sense that AMARUKAFO ADEBISA: African-American Ancestral Divination in our first film. There are seasoned filmmakers whose films were not chosen while ours was. We are submitting our film to a number of additional film festivals around the country and some outside of the country in the effort to get our film in more theaters. We have more leverage now as many film festivals assess acceptance criteria based upon if the film has been accepted at other festivals. Thus if a film festival receives 500 films and only has 80 openings, they will be more inclined to give consideration to a film that has been accepted by other film festivals because they know it has passed numerous screenings. We do need assistance in this effort as every festival includes a fee to submit (often $50) and there are also deadlines for submission including deadlines for this week. Most film festivals also do not have the budget to cover the transportation costs of all of the filmmakers whose films they select. The crowdfund for our new film that is in progress: HOODOO - Akan Ancestral Religion in North America, is the link below where you can contribute to our effort. When we travel to these festivals, some of the footage of the experience will be included in the new film. Our first film festival event is this weekend, November 7-10th in Los Angeles. Our film will be screened on Memeneda (Saturday) and we have been asked to speak on a panel on indigenous religions on the following day. Myself and Voodoo Queen Kalindah Laveaux will be attending and speaking. Your contribution to our crowdfund will assist not only with travel expenses for this festival, the submissions fees for those festivals whose deadlines are this week and also related expenses for additional 4K memory cards (one good memory card for our 4K camera for example is $80 on sale) for shooting additional footage. Contribute below today and we appreciate your support. Our work will reach a much larger percentage of our people through the film festivals here and around the world: www.fundrazr.com/Hoodoo_Akan_Film Yeda ase... Odwirafo

Mikyia mo (Greetings).. We have updated our page which includes a new announcement. We will be hosting our very own annual film festival in 13020 (2020). Our HOODOO film will be one of the featured films screened at our new festival. This is why our plans changed regarding the initial goal of releasing our new film this month at the HOODOO MAYN: Hoodoo Nation Festival. The Nananom Nsamanfo had a larger vision. Our new film will anchor our new annual film festival which will showcase films from Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) filmmakers from within Odwiraman - Purified Nation in the West. We will have at least 10 films screened over the course of the weekend at a state of the art theater during our annual HOODOO MAYN: Hoodoo Nation Festival. This will give the opportunity for thousands of our people to come out and be educated, entertained and empowered by documentaries, dramatic films, biopics and more - all rooted in our authentic cultural values. More information will be released on this new endeavor shortly. We will be traveling to Los Angeles next month as our film was selected to be screened at the Pembroke Taparelli Arts and Film Festival in California. We will also be in Texas the following week as our film was also selected to be screened in connection with the Carver Museum's exhibit on Conjure. Please contribute to this crowdfund effort today as we are now moving ahead to complete our new film on Hoodoo and are organizing for our own film festival.. Yeda ase.. www.fundrazr.com/Hoodoo_Akan_Film Odwirafo

Update on HOODOO Film: Mikyia mo (Greetings).. We are at 4% of our crowdfunding goal for our new HOODOO film. We aim to complete the filming in the late spring and early summer. Our goal is to have the film ready for release for our 5th annual HOODOO MAYN: Hoodoo Nation Festival in October. Please share our fundrazr link with your contacts. We can get to 100% of our goal with about 140 contributors. We have had 8 contributors so far with a couple of people contributing more than once. We can definitely get this done ahead of schedule. If you liked our first film you will love the second film as we will go into detail about our cosmology and trustory in a narrative fashion - from Ancient Khanit and Kamit to Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (Africans) in North america. Yeda ase for continued support and contributions to our effort.. For those who are interested there is a recurrent contribution option when contributing. For example some have a $25 or $15 monthly contribution which is automatic. This helps us greatly and will get us to the goal over the next three months: www.fundrazr.com/Hoodoo_Akan_Film Odwirafo