By Arianne C. Edmonds In a culture so obsessed with the preservation of “now” and the constant documentation of our daily lives via Facebook and Twiter, it was refreshing to participate in an event like the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Road Show.  Under the workmanship of critically acclaimed filmmaker, Thomas Allen Harris, The DDFR Road [...]

By Sylvia Isabel My experience in the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Road show-Harlem went far beyond my expectations. I believe divine intervention was at work. A friend (Martha Jones)pushed me to call DDFR upon learning

The Harlem Stage Gatehouse was sold-out for the Grand Finale of the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR) Road on Sunday, February 27th. The lively celebration hosted by Thomas Allen Harris was the concluding the Harlem edition of the national DDFR Roadshow.  During its week-long residency at Harlem Stage, the DDFR Roadshow conducted Family Photo Interviews with [...]

Author Tequila Minsky writes on the DDFR Roadshow Harlem Grand Finale for Caribbean LIfe. Tequila’s article stands out as it was the only one to comprehensively cover the DDFR Grand Finale event. Excerpt from Tequila Minksy’s article: New York-based documentary filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris is merging his filmic skills with oral traditions and new technologies [...]

DDFR Roadshow Comes to Harlem February 2011 Bring your Family Photo Album to life with award-winning documentary filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris through his interactive DDFR Roadshow (DDFR.TV), a multimedia event showcasing images of our communities and our ancestors. DDFR Roadshow Wed-Fri, Feb 23-25, 2011, 3-8 pm | The Gatehouse | FREE (reservation required). [...]

Pierre Thiam, chef at the Senegalese restaurant Le Grand Dakar, reminisces while displaying his family photographs with Thomas in his home and at the DDFR road show in Brooklyn, NY. Pierre credits his aunt with capturing the countless memories in Dakar that are laid out in his dining room table, one of his mother wearing [...]

On Saturday February 21st, Thomas Allen Harris delivered the final program of the Integrated Media Association – Public Media Conference held at the West Peachtree Plaza in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Following a screening of excerpts from the “Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People” documentary and multimedia outreach project – [...]