{"id":4997,"date":"2012-10-17T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T17:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork?p=4997"},"modified":"2012-10-17T13:52:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T17:52:28","slug":"africa-straight-up-film-receives-a-warm-debut-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/africa-straight-up-film-receives-a-warm-debut-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Africa Straight Up&quot; Film Receives A Warm Debut In New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"afric-2727690428\" class=\"afric-before-content afric-entity-placement\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    style=\"text-align:center;\" type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/AMP-Banner\">\r\n  <div placeholder><\/div>\r\n  <div fallback><\/div>\r\n<\/amp-ad>\r\n<\/div><div><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2012\/10\/Africa-Straight-Up-AfWNy.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4998 lazyload\" title=\"Africa Straight Up AfWNy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2012\/10\/Africa-Straight-Up-AfWNy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Africa Straight Up<\/em>\u00a0is a new 30-minute film that takes viewers on a journey to understand and see for themselves the progress and developments that have been made in technology, business, governance, and education across Africa. Featuring South African Warren Adams, Nigerian hip hop choreographer M.I., and Kenyan technology activist Ory Okolloh the film was given an exclusive release party hosted<a href=\"http:\/\/africa.com\" target=\"_blank\"> Africa.com<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222;\">partnered with<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/adiree.com\" target=\"_blank\">Adir\u00e9e<\/a> , AfriPOP! Magazine, Africa Style Daily,\u00a0Cocody Productions, Heritage 1960,\u00a0Africans in the Media &amp; Creative Industry,\u00a0Hip Hop Saves Lives <a href=\"http:\/\/adiree.com\" target=\"_blank\">;<\/a>\u00a0last week. Many important and notable people attended including<a href=\"http:\/\/www.africa.com\" target=\"_blank\"> Africa.com&#8217;<\/a>s CEO, Teresa Clarke, to give this film a debut deserving of an record breaker.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photos courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/www.applauseafrica.com\" target=\"_blank\">Applause Africa<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"afric-1122392727\" class=\"afric-after-content afric-entity-placement\"><amp-ad width=300 height=250\r\n    style=\"text-align:center;\" type=\"doubleclick\"\r\n    data-slot=\"\/21718337565\/AMP-bottom\">\r\n  <div placeholder><\/div>\r\n  <div fallback><\/div>\r\n<\/amp-ad><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Straight Up\u00a0is a new 30-minute film that takes viewers on a journey to understand and see for themselves the progress and developments that have been made in technology, business, governance, and education across Africa. Featuring South African Warren Adams, Nigerian hip hop choreographer M.I., and Kenyan technology activist Ory Okolloh the film was given&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,73,75],"tags":[1411,88,89,90,1376,912,439,82,1412,1413,1414,1381,1415,1416,1417,12,581,1418,1419,1420,1421,1422,1190,1408,1423],"class_list":["post-4997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afw","category-made","category-news","tag-a","tag-adiree","tag-africa","tag-africa-fashion-week","tag-africa-straight-up","tag-africa-style","tag-africa-com","tag-african-designers","tag-african-empowerment-afwny","tag-african-film","tag-african-film-debut","tag-africans-in-entertainment","tag-africans-in-the-media-creative-industry","tag-afripop-magazie","tag-applause-africa","tag-beauty","tag-black-fashion","tag-black-pattern","tag-fashion-designer","tag-fashion-tips","tag-heritage","tag-hip-hop-saves-lives","tag-new-york-fashion","tag-public-relations","tag-teresa-clarke"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}