CULTURETECHLENSCascade Festival of African Films
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Combined Graph record U-03093 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-E-0207. Master record source: User-supplied article 2026-10-16 (UrbanGeekz) — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Longest-running African film festival in the US; "Africa through the eyes of Africans"
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Longest-running African film festival in the US; "Africa through the eyes of Africans"
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- City: Portland, Oregon
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- African Film Festivals in the US — appears on
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Sources
- https://www.africanfilmfestival.org/2019/about/mission-history/ (verification source · master store)
Evidence note (master store)
Official festival site (tier 2): 'The Cascade Festival of African Films is the longest running annual, non-profit... African Film Festival in the United States'; 'was founded in 1991 by four Portland Community College faculty members'; mission includes 'Creating an audience for African film in Portland, Oregon' — founded 1991, city Portland, Oregon, annual, and longest-running claim all confirmed.
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- City Club of Chicago: Making a Difference for Chicago Youth in 2016
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