Giancarlo Esposito News

T he seventh Global Peace Film Festival - the Orlando film festival with the worldwide reach - features 39 films from six continents.

Giancarlo Esposito makes a decent directorial debut with this multi-layered drama set in Julia, South Carolina, a mythical oasis of intolerance which has never been forced to own up to its ugly legacy of racism.

Rated R • WHO: Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, John Turturro, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, Richard Edson, John Savage, Bill Nunn • THE SCOOP: On the hottest day of summer in Brooklyn, a predominantly black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood erupts into chaos as long-simmering bigotry take over.

It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

The African Diaspora Film Festival , with films by Africans and hyphenated Africans from around the world, runs all week at Facets Cinematheque.

Dancehall music was really hot in the early 1990s. Shabba Ranks, Mad Cobra and Patra all had hit songs in the United States, so it was no surprise when a group of Jamaicans decided to put up some money and produce Kla$h, a movie based on the genre.

In Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood, summer has arrived in full and this is without a doubt the hottest day of the year.