American Black Film Festival Brings T.I., Mike Tyson, Tupac, and The Wire to Miami

Starting today, the American Black Film Festival takes over the Ritz-Carlton as its headquarters and will screen films at Lincoln Road's Colony Theatre and the Española Way's Miami Beach Cinematheque through Saturday. But with 17 films, a shorts competition, workshops, and symposiums, you can't make it to everything. Here's where...
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Also fresh off the festival circuit with screenings at SxSW is One Night in Vegas, a documentary about the friendship between Tupac Shakur and Mike Tyson. The film is rooted in the night Tupac was killed. He was gunned down between seeing Iron Mike knock out Bruce Sheldon and the victory party. A former writer of the sitcom A Different World, director Reggie Bythewood sums it up with “Yet on this one night in Vegas, there were more punches thrown by Tupac in the lobby than there were in the arena. And in the end there was more bloodshed outside of the ring than there was inside.”  One Night in Vegas screens tomorrow at the Colony and Friday at the Cinematheque. Here’s the trailer:

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