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7 Principles, 7 Filmmakers, 7 Films: Short Films in Honor of the 60th Anniversary of the Nguzo Saba
Commission Awardee Film Screenings and Discussion
Now presented via Zoom due to unforeseen conditions
December 30, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) is proud to announce the screenings of the 2025 commission winning short films, 7 Principles, 7 Filmmakers, 7 Films: Short Films in Honor of the 60th Anniversary of the Nguzo Saba. Created by Dr. Maulana Karenga, The Nguzo Saba are The Seven Principles on which the Pan African holiday of Kwanzaa, which he also created, stands. Each film will be screened virtually via Zoom followed by discussion with the filmmakers. Please find Zoom meeting link below.
Commissioned by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs' Leimert Park Cultural Hub, the seven awardees and the Nguzo Saba principle their films represent are--
Nathan J. Lee:
Umoja (Unity) To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
Gina Loring:
Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
Juan Escobdo:
Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers and sisters problems our problems and to solve them together.
Elizabeth Ruvalcaba:
Ujamaa (Cooperative economics) To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Tiffany Judkins:
Nia (Purpose) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their original greatness.
Elizabeth Gray Bayne:
Kuumba (Creativity) To always do as much as we can, in the way that we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.
Mercedes Sichon:
Imani (Faith) To believe with all our heart in our people, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle. *
ZOOM MEETING LINK FOR DECEMBER 30, 2025 | 3:00 P.M. (PT)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86193862223?pwd=g2sbd5RU0LTwt3EPS2hpXnAeKc6HDZ.1
Meeting ID: 861 9386 2223
Passcode: 705655
This event is free and open to the public. However, reservations are suggested.
ABOUT KWANZAA
Kwanzaa is an African American and Pan-African holiday which celebrates family, community and culture, and is observed from 26 December to 1 January throughout the global African community. It is based on the agricultural celebrations of Africa called the first-fruits celebrations which were times for harvest, ingathering, special reverence, commemoration, recommitment, and celebration. Therefore, Kwanzaa is a time for ingathering of African peoples to reinforce the bonds between them and in celebration of their heritage and their achievements, special reverence for the Creator and creation, commemoration of the past, recommitment to their highest cultural ideals and celebration of the good. *
ABOUT THE NGUZO SABA
Kwanzaa was created to introduce and reinforce seven basic values of African culture which contribute to building and reinforcing family and community among African American people as well as Africans throughout the world African community. These values are called the Nguzo Saba (in-goo-zo sah-bah), which in the Pan-African language of Swahili means the Seven Principles. These principles stand at the heart of the origin and meaning of Kwanzaa, for it is these values which are not only the building blocks for family and community but serve as its social glue. *
ABOUT DR. MAULANA KARENGA
The creator of Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba, Dr. Maulana Karenga is the author of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family Community and Culture *, as well as a host of other publications. He serves as Executive Director of the African American Cultural Center (Us), Co-chair of the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies Department, California State University Long Beach. For more information, please visit: https://officialkwanzaawebsite.org/ and https://maulanakarenga.org/.
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