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All About Darfur
The inaugural Sydney African Film Festival was presented from October 27-29, 2006 at The Footbridge Theatre and from November 3-4, 2006 at Mars Hill Cafe. The Festival showcased a selection of African feature films and a unique collection of African short films.
The event, held in collaboration with the African Film Festival, Inc. donated all the money raised to Hands of Help, a charitable organization which works to alleviate poverty and advance education and basic health care in countries such as Uganda and Kenya. more >>
Steve Ayorinde: Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you. The name of Kwah Ansah is to a large extent one of the most significant of African Cinema. As far as cinema is concerned, we did not hear much from you in Nigeria since Heritage Africa. Has there been a break or change in focus since that outstanding film?
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When I first saw U-Carmen eKhayelitsha at the 13th New York African Film Festival in April 2006, I was mesmerized. Because the film made such a strong social statement with its casting of Carmen, I was forced to examine my socialization of the standards of beauty. As a result, my self-esteem has been raised and my concept of beauty has been forever broadened.
By adapting Bizet's opera to film and setting it in a South African township, Mark Donford-May has given the world a Carmen that surpasses all previous Carmens. Breaking with the tradition of presenting Carmen defined by the European standard of beauty, Dornford-May boldly presents us with an opportunity to expand our idea of beauty and exoticness.
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Max and Mona is a post-apartheid South African comedy. Set in and around the country's industrial capital Johannesburg, it revolves around young Max Bua (Mpho Lovingo) the village mourner of a small provincial town who, despite inheriting his grandfather's unique talent for making people cry at funerals, wants to pursue a medical degree in the big city.
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AFF in Harlem, Summer 2006 SUMMER OUTDOOR SERIES 2006 5th Annual Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival Hello, it's me again - the African Film Addict - and I am still addicted. However, this year, I gave up the summer to work on improving myself professionally (whatever that means). When I received the emails and postcards about the New York African Film Festival's outdoor series in Harlem, I steeled myself and pledged to stay strong.
Like
other forms of creative expression by Africans, filmmaking constitutes a form
of discourse and practice that is not just artistic and cultural, but also
intellectual and political. It is a way of defining, describing and
interpreting African experiences with those forces that have shaped their past
and that continue to shape and influence the present. It is a product of the
historical experiences of Africans, and it has direct bearing and relevance to
the challenges that face African societies and people of African descent in the
world in the present moment and in the future. As product of the imagination,
filmmaking constitutes at the same time a particular mode of intellectual and
political practice. Thus, in looking at filmmaking, in particular, and the
other creative arts, in general, one is looking at particular insights into
ways of thinking and acting on individual as well as collective realities,
experiences, challenges and desires over time. African thinking and acting on
their individual and collective realities, experiences, challenges and desires
are diverse and complex, and cinema provides one of the most productive sites
for experiencing, understanding and appreciating such diversity and complexity. more >>
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