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The 9th Annual Oakland International Film Festival, directors of shorts screening Thursday, April 14 & 15, 2011: Howard Egger-Bovet, dir. Nobody Knows Where the Bullet Goes (5:09 min.) screens, 4/14 6-8:15 PM slot; Sean Morris, Native Time, (9:30 mins.) screens at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland, CA, 4/14 6-8:15 PM, and Zondre Smith, Fuss and Fight (4 mins.) screening at Art Deco Auditorium in Alameda, CA, Friday, April 15, 6-8:15 PM slot.  Visit www.oiff.org We close with a conversation with cast members: Charles Branklyn (Feste) and Renee Wilson (Viola) in The African American Shakespeare Company's production of Twelfth Night or What You Will up Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 3 PM through May 1.   Visit www.african-americanshakes.org   Music: We open with music from Rupa and the April Fishes's "Este Mundo" and close with a Renee Wilson number, "Crepe Covered Sidewalks."