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.

The Jamaica Association of Dramatic Artists has expressed its regret at the passing of Stafford Ashani - one of Jamaica's outstanding actors, film-makers and playwrights.

The Delray Beach Film Festival wrapped up its 6-day festival May 24, screening more than 200 films from around the world during the event.

Exhilarating, honest and often humorous, this full length music documentary about the first leg of Iron Maiden's historic Somewhere Back in Time World Tour in February and March of 2008, is considered to be the most ambitious and adventurous tour in rock history.

Director Jim Jarmusch's five stories from around the world about cabdrivers and their fares.

With an African-American who enjoys broad white support now in the White House, the buzzword of the moment, when it comes to American race relations, is "post-racial." What that exactly means is the focus of a new film opening the Santa Cruz Film Festival.

Shakespeare's melancholy Dane is one of the few roles Giancarlo Esposito, born in Copenhagen to an American opera singer and an Italian carpenter, seems not to have played.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 26-May 2: April 26: Actress-comedian Carol Burnett is 76.