Reggie Ponder, The Reel Critic, is back from the 13th Annual 2009 American Black Film Festival and is ready to Talk About it!

Each year the ABFF previews movies by African Americans and bestows awards on the filmmakers and actors.  This year’s films included Black Dynamite, Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy and Pastor Brown, among others.  The Festival also conducted a variety of seminars to discuss the state of Black Film; and featured intimate conversations and panels with a veritable “who’s who” among Black entertainment professionals, including, Robert Townsend, John Singleton, Sanaa Lathan, Vivica, A. Fox, Michael Jai White, Wood Harris, Roger Bobb of Tyler Perry Studios, Wendell Pierce, Tamara Tunie, Clifton Powell, Rockmon Dunbar and Kenya Moore.

Reggie Ponder was right there in the midst of all the exciteiment.  He spoke with an impressive slate of Hollywood insiders; screened the new films and was there to celebrate with the winners at this year’s fantastic awards ceremony.

Some of the highlights of this year’s Festival included a phenomenal HBO Short Film Competition, a community based Allstate Be Reel Contest, three red carpet movie premiere events, master classes led by John Singleton, Robert Townsend and Gregory Allen Howard, and a host of receptions and parties that made South Beach the place to be!

Reggie Ponder has been reviewing movies for over 12 years and is currently the resident film critic for Film Life @ www.filmlife.com and WUBU FM, South Bend, IN.  Reggie has two radio programs airing on WUBU FM: The 511, a one minute movie review segment and Reggie’s Movie Update, a two minute movie segment with movie information.  Prior to joining Film Life and WUBU FM, Ponder was the film critic for N’DIGO Magapaper in Chicago and AOL BlackVoices

Ponder is available to talk to you about the 2009 ABFF as well as movies in general.  For More Information contact Reggie Ponder @ reginaldponder@sbcglobal.net and 773-972-4474

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