{"id":11229,"date":"2015-03-10T11:44:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T11:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/one_fourthlast=nospacing=yesbackground_color=background_image=background_repeat=no-repeatbackground_position=lefttopborder_size=0pxborder_color=border_style=padding=class=id=fusion_text"},"modified":"2015-05-15T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T13:20:30","slug":"mahen-bonetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gentlebooklets.com\/eng\/mahen-bonetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahen Bonetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-one-fourth one_fourth fusion-layout-column fusion-column spacing-yes\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gentlebooklets.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mahen-Bonetti_w-cr.jpg\" alt=\"Mahen-Bonetti_w-cr\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-two-fifth fusion-layout-column fusion-column spacing-yes\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\"><strong>Founder and executive director of the African Film Festival of New York (AFF).<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 17\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Mahen Bonetti was born in 1956 in Sierra Leone to a family that has experienced the ups and downs of post-colonial politics.\u00a0Several of her relatives were forced into exile in the United States and England in 1970.\u00a0Mahen could only return in 1980 for the funeral of her maternal uncle, former Prime Minister Sir Albert Margai, who died in the United States.<br \/>\nMahen received her bachelor of arts in administrative studies at Bradford College and pursued graduate studies in media communication at New York University.\u00a0She worked at Young and Rubicam and at Newsweek\u2019s editorial and advertising division, before becoming founder and executive director of the African Film Festival Inc. in 1990.\u00a0Her experiences led her to the conclusion 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