I believe it was Octavian, the Roman general, who declared, "We expand or we die!" Not that the African American Film Festival Release Movement (aka AFFRM) – the film distribution collective/company launched by Ava DuVernay in 2010 – is in any danger whatsoever of "dying" (absolutely not, especially after an immensely successful fundraising drive earlier this year that saw AFFRM’s membership double to roughly 1200 "rebels"), but the ancient Roman philosophy of expansion (also, technically, an actual law of the universe), is somewhat apropos here – expansion as in moving forward, evolving, continuing to grow by seeking and recognizing…
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