JUMP TV ONLINE NIGERIA
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GHANACINEMA.COM
http://ghanacinema.com/
Topics: Afrian Films, Movies, Videos
Accces Cinema Africain/African Film Access, Montreal
Festival to Use French " to explore contemporary film and video from Africa [and the Caribbean] as unique documents for research and study." Presented by Vues d'Afrique and the Penobscot School, Rockland, Maine, USA. http://www.cinema-africain.org/
Adanggaman
"The origins of the 17th century West African slave trade are vividly dramatized in Adanggaman, a controversial story which looks at the role black Africans had in the enslavement of their own people." By Ivory Coast director, Roger Gnoan M'Bala. Distributed by New Yorker Films which has the New York Times review of the film. [KF] http://www.newyorkerfilms.com/ See also a 2001 review in the Village Voice (New York) and excerpt from the book Focus on African Films by Françoise Pfaff.
Adwa: An African Victory
Film by Haile Gerima which "documents the victory of Ethiopian patriots over the invading colonial power of Italy at Adwa, in the northern part of Ethiopia in 1896. The victory was not only a historical landmark to Ethiopians, but became a beacon for Pan-Africanism around the world." [KF] http://sankofastore.com/catalog/homepage.php
AFNEX
In French and English. Internet television broadcasts of games of the African Champions League (2006), Africa Cup of Nations. "AFNEX est une entité de LC2 Médias, filiale du groupe LC2 TVNETELECOM qui opère dans le domaine de la télédiffusion, de la télécommunication et de l'interconnexion. Principes de fonctionnement : AFNEX "African Network and News Exchange" est le premier réseau africain permettant de reçevoir, envoyer et partager des programmes sportifs, socioculturels, économiques et politiques de la communauté africaine à travers le monde." " Les pays partenaires d'AFNEX sont les télévisions privées et/ou
In the Africa for Kids section on the web site, spend a day with kids from Ghana and e-mail them, play the thumb piano / record your tune, (requires Flash, sound card), listen to a Swahili tale or read it yourself, make a Dogon mask. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/
Africa Channel
TV channel with African programming, music concerts, news, lifestyle, travel, films, soap operas. Not carried in all areas. Has shown Big Brother Africa. Rebroadcasts shows written and produced by Africans, re-edited to include commercials for American viewers. The CEO is James Makawa. Based in Los Angeles and Johannesburg. [KF] http://www.theafricachannel.com/
Africa Film & TV
Purchased by Balancing Acts' Southwood Consultants Ltd. Was a magazine and annual directory on the African TV, film, and video industry from Z Promotions Pvt. Ltd., Harare, Zimbabwe. There is now a free e-newsletter, Broadcast, Film and Convergence with information on the film industry, TV, in Africa, etc. http://www.afridigital.net/
Africa in Motion
The 2007 Edinburgh African Film Festival is October 25 - November 4, 2007. The 2006 Festival site includes descriptions of each film, press articles, audience comments, symposium, roundtables. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. http://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/
Africa in the Picture, Film Festival in the Netherlands, September 2009
In Dutch and English. "now in its 12th edition..... the theme of the september 2009 festival will be "Crisis, what crisis". During the festival, more than 50 films produced in Africa or by directors with African roots willl be shown in Amsterdam and six other Dutch cities. The current festival director is Heidi Lobato" - Katrien Polman. Web sites of past festivals are online. http://www.africainthepicture.nl
Africa Movies.com
Sells Nigerian films on video, news of the Nigerian movie industry, artist (actor) of the month feature. Film categories include Christian, Yoruba, Ibo, Horror, Cultural, Comedy, Music Videos, Romance. AfricaMovies.com is a a subsidiary of Dynamics. Based in Brooklyn, New York. Site owner is Bethels Agomuoh. [KF] http://www.africamovies.com/
Africa Productions
In French. Sells CDs and DVDs including films by Ousmane Sembène (subtitles are in French). Short preview audio clips. Art work by Sada Tall. Only those living in Europe may be able to make purchases. Based in Paris, France. [KF] http://www.africaproductions.com/
Africa TV
Free short documentaries on development issues in Africa, Kenyan athletes at the High Performance Training Centre in Eldoret, Zanzibar's old Stone Town, etc. . From Africa Interactive BV, "an media company that provides online channels with a focus on Africa." "Africa Interactive BV is a media company producing and conducting an international, interactive and multimedia platform, focussed on Africa." Connected with the AfricaInteractive Foundcation. Based in Haarlem, Netherlands. [KF] http://www.africa-interactive.net/index.php?TreeID=4
African Movie Academy Awards, AMAA
"an offshoot of the African Film Academy." http://www.ama-awards.com/
African Art Videos - Professor Christopher Roy
"videos, filmed in rural villages in Africa since 2001..." "These DVDs are especially useful to those who collect African art, who teach African art history or anthropology,....." Topics include - A Day in the Life of a Village in Africa; Death of an African King: The Funeral of the Omanhene of Techiman; The Beauty Competition of the Wodaabe People of nutter; African Art as Theater (masks); The Talking Drums of Techiman; Brewing Millet Beer in Africa, Countries covered - Burkina Faso, Ghana, nutter. Prof. Roy is Professor of Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City. http://www.africanartvideo.com/
African Broadcasting Network - America, ABN America
Broadcasts African movies, documentaries, music in North America on the subscription service, DISH Network, Channel 749. Video previews on-line. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota. http://www.abnamerica.com/
African Cinema
Discussion forum on African film, the film industry. "The African Cinema Conference is a virtual summit on current issues, government regulations, festival offerings and other pertinent information as it relates to the distribution of African films and video productions. This unmoderated group is open to all with a strong desire to write, direct, produce and distribute African related films & videos." http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/AfricanCinemaConf/?yguid=132133628
African Cinema Summer Institute, Dakar, Senegal, June 8 to July 6, 2005
"open to US College and University faculty in the humanities and social sciences. Faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Hispanic Serving (HSI) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU) are also particularly encouraged to apply." Application deadline: March 1, 2005. Directed by Mbye Cham and Manthia Diawara. "surveys the history, theories, aesthetics and criticism of African cinema from 1960 to the present." Reading list, film list. Sponsored by Howard University. [KF] http://www.coas.howard.edu/neh/
African Diasporan Film Festival
"We distribute films that focus on the human experience of black people in Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America and Europe. All these films were shown during our annual African Diaspora Film Festival in New York." From ArtMattan Productions. http://www.AfricanFilm.com
African Family Film Foundation
Brief descriptions of films by Santa Cruz, Calif. filmmaker, Taale Laafi Rosellini - Adama, the Fulani Magician (22 minutes), Diro and His Talking Musical Bow (11 min.), Dance of the Bella (11 min.) http://www.africanfamily.org/
African Film Library
Film rental service. "...you will be able to register to the site and purchase credits using your credit card, which you can then spend to download and rent the film of your choice. The rental period lasts 24 hours from the first time you start viewing the film. Within this period, you will be able to watch the film as many times as you like." Find films by genre, language. " works from more than 80 producers including Senegalese Ousmane Sembene and Djibril Mambety, Yousef Chahine from Egypt and Haile Gerima from Ethiopia." Maintained by M-Net. http://www.africanfilmlibrary.com/
African Marketplace - Los Angeles
Annual African festival in Los Angeles, California. African clothing, crafts, music, film festival, children's activities. http://www.africanmarketplace.org/
African Movie Academy Awards
Brings "together filmmakers, directors, producers, make-up artists and actors from across the African continent, has been held in Bayelsa [Nigeria] since the first edition of the event in 2005." Based in Lagos, Nigeria. http://www.ama-awards.com/
African Movie Place
Sells African movies and music videos. Includes customer comments on the movies, indicates Quantity in Stock for each title. http://www.africanmovieplace.com/
African Movies Direct
Sells videos from Nigeria, Ghana, African soccer films, etc. Based in San Diego, CA. http://www.africanmoviesdirect.com/
African Studies Center, Leiden - African Cinema II
"web dossier..... selection of titles of books, articles and documentaries on cinema in Africa published since 2003," Has links to African Film festival web sites. This is a sequel to their 2003 dossier, African Cinema. Site created to conincide with the Africa in the Picture 2009 film festival. http://www.ascleiden.nl/Library/Webdossiers/AfricanCinema2.aspx
African Studies Videos - U.C. Berkeley
An annotated list of the Africa-related videos and audiocassettes in the Univ. of California, Berkeley Media Resource Center. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/AfricanVid.html
African Union of Broadcasting
Formerly Union of National Radio and Television Organizations of Africa, URTNA. Based in Dakar, Senegal. http://www.urtna.org/
African Video Film Arts Festival, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, October 28-31, 2007
http://www.geocities.com/africanvideofest/africanvideofest.html
African Women in Cinema Project - Beti Ellerson
"guide for researching and teaching African Women Cinema Studies, with a guide to the film and book, Sisters of the Screen as well as a timeline. Includes bibliographies, filmography, suggested films, excerpts from comments by women directors, web sites. Dr. Ellerson is a Lecturer in Art History, Howard University, Washington, D.C. [KF] http://www.africanwomenincinema.org/
The Africans
Information on ordering the video series and study guides for the 9-program series hosted by Prof. Ali Mazrui. "Take a journey to 16 African countries to examine the major influences on this complex continent: indigenous heritage, Western culture, and the Islamic religion." Produced by WETA/Washington, DC, and the BBC. 1986. http://www.learner.org/resources/resource.html?uid=8
Africast
TV from Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Kenya, Namibia, Malawi, Botswana. Must Register (which is free). Watch Movies, dramas, entertainment specials, documentaries on your computer. Sample free short film clips and previews from films. Purchase DVDs/videos ($80-$200). Short profiles of film directors. [Best if you have a fast internet connection.] Based in Westport, Connecticut. Produced by Africast Global Media, Inc., a Delaware Corporation formed in February, 2004.[KF] http://www.africast.tv/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/
Lost Boys of Sudan
Award-winning documentary about two Sudanese refugee boys and their experiences in U.S. society. Producer / Directors: Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk. Study guide with classroom ideas and essays by Sudanese refugees and Sudan experts. Ideas for assisting refugees and victims of Darfur. The 87 minute film, in English and Dinka with subtitles, may be purchased. Site based in San Francisco, California. http://www.LostBoysFilm.com
Lost Tribes of Israel
Public Broadcasting Service TV program. Includes the "Mystery of Great Zimbabwe" whose ruins were erroneously attributed to the Queen of Sheba or "a northern race coming from Arabia." Archeologist David Randall-MacIver concluded the ruins were created by 14th-15th c. African builders. "In the 1960s and 1970s, as the edifice grew into a potent symbol of the African Nationalist movement, the white government of Rhodesia set about suppressing the findings of prehistorians who claimed that Africans had built Great Zimbabwe." The Lemba of Southern Africa, who claim ancient Jewish heritage, may have built Great Zimbabwe. Includes a teachers guide. Has links to the American Journal of Human Genetics article on DNA linking the Lemba and Jewish priesthood. [KF] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/israel/index.html
Lumumba
The acclaimed film directed by Haitian, Raoul Peck. "Lumumba is a gripping political thriller which tells the story of the legendary African leader Patrice Emery Lumumba." Extensive historical background, with chronology, Congo history, Lumumba's last letter to his wife, Lumumba biography, biographies of Mobutu, Tshombe, Kasavubu. Video, audio files. The U.S. distributor is Zeitgeist Films. [KF] http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=lumumba
Mainframe Film & Television Productions
The company of Tunde Kelani, T.V. and film producer and Cinematographer. Produced the films Thunderbolt, Agogo Eewo, Efunsetan Aniwura and others. Films in Yoruba and English. Based in Lagos, Nigeria. http://www.mainframemovies.tv/
Maitres Fous
Web site on filmmaker, ethnographer Jean Rouch, his interest in Africa. Biographical timeline, filmography, bibliography, film reviews, interviews, essays, photographs, glossary of "Rouchian" terms, related web sites. Maintained by Jamie Stockholm-Berthe. http://www.maitres-fous.net/
Mandy's Directory - South Africa
A directory to South African film, TV professionals. Also includes Zimbabwe. http://www.mandy.com/safr/00safr.html
Mbira Music Page of Solomon Murungu
Extensive information provided by Mr. Murungu and others? on mbira music. Includes biographies and discographies for musicians such as Thomas Mapfumo, information on Shona and Ndebele religious beliefs, abstracts of films on mbira music, etc. http://www.tiac.net/users/smurungu/mbiraindex.html
McCall, John C., and Christey Carwile-Routon - "Other Africas. Images of Nigerian Modernity"
Online exhibit of Nigerian poster calendars, television and video movie trailers (with video / audio clips), photographs of Enugu urban scenes, a Y2K billboard, clothing motifs. Accompanies an exhibit at the University Museum of Southern Illinois University, January - April 2002. Maintained by John C. McCall, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL and Christey Carwile-Routon, doctoral student in anthropology. http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/otherafricas/
Media for Development International
"non-profit agency which has been operational now for 10+ years. It relates closely to Media for Development Trust (MFD) a Zimbabwean registered charity (W.O. 21/89). The two have been sister agencies for about 15 years now, both were initially funded by DSR, Inc. MFDI provides support to MFD in Zimbabwe, and they work together in film productions as well as distributing African social message films and videos." Film catalog of over 90 films / videos, arranged by topic, searchable by title. Includes Everyone's Child. Based in Glenwood Springs, CO. http://www.mfdi.org/
Media for Development Trust
Non profit, based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Producer and distributor, since 1989, of high quality, socially conscious films and videos." Descriptions of films, a production studio, and equipment for hire. Includes Everyone's Child. [KF] http://www.mfd.co.zw/
Médiathèque des Trois Mondes (Paris, France)
In French. "une entreprise culturelle à but non-lucratif qui cherche à favoriser la diffusion, en France, de films d’Afrique, d’Asie et d’Amérique latine." Online video catalog (VHS, DVD). 35mm and 16mm films. Will send their print catalog on request. Sells the films of Sembene Ousmane. [KF] http://www.cine3mondes.com/
Michigan State University - African Media Program
"A database of more than 11,000 films and videos from and about Africa, including documentaries, feature films, cartoons, etc., searchable by keyword, title, topics, dates, and distributors." Includes a Bibliography of African Cinema, Film, and Video Studies and recommended curriculum resources. Based in East Lansing, Michigan. http://www.africanmedia.msu.edu/
Mill Valley Film Festival
The 2003 Festival, October 2-12, features Cinema Africa - 100 Days (Rwanda), 5@5: Wings to Fly (four films on Burkina Faso, Senegal, South Africa), Alex's Wedding (Cameroun, Benin), Beat the Drum (South Africa), Bedwin Hacker (Tunisia), Keita (Burkina Faso), Madam Brouette (Senegal), Sophiatown (South Africa). Films are shown in Mill Valley, Corte Madera, and San Rafael, California. [KF] http://www.cafilm.org/index.html
Minibus Media
Sells a DVD on the 2004 Malawi Presidential Election called "Making of a President". Online movie trailer.Minibus Media was created in 2004 in Malawi by Hans-Christian Goertz and Mirella Domenich to produce documentaries on human rights issues in young democracies. In progress is a film on the third Mozambique general election, "And the Struggle Still Continues." Hivos, a Dutch development agency supported the DVD production. IDFA article. ConectaSur article. [KF] http://www.minibusmedia.org/
Mokae, Zakes
About the South African actor Zakes Mokae, a biography, his TV and film work. Iain Fisher has a university honours degree in Computer Science and a masters MBA degree and works for IBM. [KF] http://www.iainfisher.com/mokae.html
Moolaade (May 2005)
Written and directed by Ousmane Sembene. Winner Cannes Film Festival 2004: Grand Prize, Un Certain Regard. "Moolaadé deals with the difficult subject of female circumcision. To escape this ritual of "purification" organized every seven years, four young girls flee their village and find protection with a woman called Collé, but their flight sends the local population into turmoil." Sembene died June 2007 at age 84 - BBC article.
New Yorker Films (pdf file): http://www.newyorkerfilms.com/nyf/n_elements/moolaade_fl.pdf
New Yorker Films (pdf file) http://www.newyorkerfilms.com/nyf/t_elements/moolaade/moolaade_pk.pdf
Comments: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/moolaade/
MTV base
African music TV channel. African artist profiles, news. Need to register (free) to access some content. Press release announcing the move of parent company, MTV Networks Africa from London to Johannesubrg, South Africa. Interview with MTV Networks Africa Vice President & General Manager. http://mtvbase.com/mtvbaseafrica.com/music/
Naija Film Festival Organisers
Produces the Abuja International Film Festival. Information on their other festivals - African Film Festival, etc. Links to related film sites. http://www.nffo.org/
National Black Programming Consortium (Columbus, Ohio)
Sponsors the "Prized Pieces Awards Ceremony and Festival identifies and recognizes superior achievements in film and video programs that affirm the universality of the Black experience." http://www.blackstarcom.org/index.html
National Film Board of Canada
Distributes films about Africa. Use the Search Engine. Has a Rwanda series, which includes Sitting on a Volcano, Hand of God, Hand of the Devil, Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold - Part 1: Blood Was Flowing Like a...., Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold - Part 2: We Were Cowards, Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold - Part 3: We Feel Betrayed. http://www.nfb.ca/
N'Dour, Youssou - I Bring What I Love
"Senegalese pop sensation Youssou Ndour became frustrated by the negative perception of his Muslim faith and composed “Egypt,” a deeply spiritual album dedicated to a more tolerant view of Islam. This career-defining move brought worldwide controversy that Youssou confronted head-on. The film combines unprecedented images of Senegal’s most sacred Muslim rituals, vibrant concert performances filmed around the world, and intimate access to Youssou and his family" - Seattle Film Festival. See also Rotten Tomatoes comments - "The most controversial creation in Youssou Ndour life is his album, “Egypt,” which was celebrated internationally but condemned in Ndour’s own country, as his fellow citizens did not believe songs should include religious verses". http://www.ibringwhatilove.com/
New York African Film Festival
Interviews with the film directors. Schedule for its traveling film festivals. http://www.africanfilmny.org/
New York University. Africa House - African Cities Documentary Series
"Africa House is designed to become the intellectual center for NYU students and faculty who are studying Africa and the African diaspora." NYU's African Expressive Culture Project includes Black Renaissance Magazine and the African Cities Documentary Series, headed by professors Manthia Diawara and Awam Amkpa, with film clips of Malian women discussing the world economy and controversial dance styles, Guinean scholar D.T.Niane on rural-urban migration, and visit to a traditional mask maker. [KF] http://www.nyu.edu/africahouse/
New Yorker Films
Announced February 23, 2009 that it was going out of business after 43 years. Distributed Xala, Guelwaar, Borom Sarret, Emitai, Camp de Thiaroye, Mandabi (The Money Order) by Ousmane Sembene and others. http://www.newyorkerfilms.com/
Nollywood
Films about the Nigerian movie industry.

Nollywood Lady - A film by Dorothee Wenner. Germany/Nigeria, 2008, 52 minutes, Color, DVD. http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c747.shtml

This is Nollywood - http://www.thisisnollywood.com/

Welcome to Nollywood - http://welcometonollywood.com/ Click on the Cinema Guild whose web site has a film description. Produced by Jamie Meltzer, Stanford faculty, Dept. of Art & Art History.
Nollywood Journal - "Journal for Nigerian and African Movies"
"Nollywood is the third highest grossing movie maker behind Hollywood in the United States and Bollywood in India." Articles, photographs, related sites. http://nollywoodjournal.com
Nollywood Project
"an ongoing research initiative based at the Global Media Research Center, College of Mass Communications and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale [Illinois]. Photographs, interviews with Nollywood figures, links to related sites. http://www.siuc.edu/~africa/nollywood/
Nollywood Rising: Global Perspectives on the Nigerian Film Industry, June 13 -17, 2005, Hilton Los Angeles, Universal City Hotel USA
Site has closed. 1st International Convention and Symposium on Nollywood. Links to articles on the Nigerian film industry. Old URL: http://www.nollywoodconventionusa.com/
Northwestern University. African Videos Holdings
90 + page list, in Adobe PDF format, of Northwestern's Africa-related videos. There are summaries for each film. Northwestern has a large collection of Nigerian popular films in Yoruba and other Nigerian languags. The videos do not go out on Interlibrary Loan. http://www.library.nwu.edu/media/docs/africana.pdf
Nowhere in Africa
Won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. A "true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel (Juliane Köhler, ...) and their five-year-old daughter Regina each deal with the harsh realities of their new life in different ways. Attorney Walter is resigned to working the farm as a caretaker; pampered Jettel resists adjustment at every turn; while the shy yet curious Regina immediately embraces the country-learning the local language and customs, and finding a friend in Owuor, the farm's cook." An MTM Medien & Television München Production, Germany. http://www.nowhereinafrica.com/
Open Video Project - Wheels Across Africa
Video dated 1936. "Armand Davis leads motor expedition in Africa, powered by Dodge cars." In three parts. Requires soundcard and speakers/headset for the audio." The video is from the Internet Archive. The Open Video Project is managed at the Interaction Design Laboratory, at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill." " "The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities." [KF] http://www.open-video.org/
Pan African Film & Art Festival
Festival of black cinema (features, shorts, and documentaries) from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, the South Pacific, and Canada. Each film is described in a paragraph. http://www.paff.org
Pan-african Film Festival / Festival du Film Panafricain, Cannes, 16-26 février 2005
In French. Program schedule. Musique - Cinéma - Livres - Exposition. On the site of Racines et Cultures. http://racinescultures.jexiste.fr/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=292
Pay the Dowry/Cameroon -The Africa In Miniature
Video about an American educated librarian, inaugurated as a Commissioner of Native Affairs in Bamenda County, Cameroon. He solves problems ranging from violence, land disputes, recalcitrant tenants, mean landlords, fake shamans and more. Includes a slide show of scenes. Written, produced and directed by Boniface Ndemping Wewe, a librarian (from Cameroon) with the Brooklyn Public Library, New York. http://www.balatatree.com/AF/index.html
Planet Africa - 1997 Toronto International Film Festival
One page with the program of African films shown at the 1997 film festival. Includes a short summary of each film. http://www.bell.ca/toronto/filmfest/headquarters/africa.htm
Power and Glory Films (Windhoek, Namibia)
In English and German. Produces "documentaries and features on topics ranging from wildlife and nature to socio-political issues, television movies, commercials and up-to-date news reporting." Provides "location scouting, research, production management and full productions..." http://www.powerandgloryfilms.com
PRAI -Promoting Reel African Images
"PRAI presents "The Best of the Best" films and videos from the African Diaspora, to Film & Television Festivals throughout the world." The Managing Director is C.Sade Turnipseed. Based in Mississippi. http://www.prai.us/
Quitebright Films Ltd.
Kenyan film and video production company. Documentaries, corporate videos. Produced The Longest River (about the Nile) for National Geographic, in 2004. "an international team of rafters from South Africa, New Zealand and England crossed into the Mediterranean Sea and became the first people to have descended the full length of the White Nile..." Also a film on Paul Imbaya otieno, a.k.a 'The Mighty King Kong' who was a polio-affected child living on the streets of a small Kenyan town and became a reggae star. [KF] http://www.quitebrightfilms.com
Reel.Com
Has a wide range of videos for sale or rental. For example, sells the video, Mandela, directed by Jo Menell, produced by Islands Picutres, distributed by Creative Exposure. http://www.reel.com
Revue Noire, African Contemporary Art (Paris)
Online site of the magazine. The table of contents of the magazine, in English or French, with a small sample of articles. Each issue focuses on art, photography, cinema, dance, theatre, or a geographic area. http://www.revuenoire.com/
Rwanda Cinema Center
"created to facilitate through film and video production, delivery of informative entertaining and educative content; to explore a wide spectrum of issues and raise awareness on local and global development
agendas;...." Sponsored the first Rwanda Film Festival. Facilitated production of the Rwandan films, 100 DAYS and Keepers of Memory. See also the Rwanda Film Institute. Based in Kigali, Rwanda. http://rwandacinemacenter.wordpress.com/
Rwanda Film Festival
http://www.rwandafilmfestival.org/
Sankofa - Mypheduh Films
Site for Haile Gerima's films - Sankofa, Bush Mama, Harvest 3,000 Years, etc. Has the transcript of an IRC chat with Gerima April 4, 1996 in which he discusses the making of Sankofa and works in progress - Adua 1896, Anchor Bye n Bye. Order information for the films and Sankofa shirts, caps, etc.
http://www.melanet.com/Sankofa/
Screen Africa (Strathavon South Africa)
Monthly news magazine for the South African film, television, video, radio and multimedia industry. Selected articles are online. Has a weekly email newsletter, an extensive directory covering film production, community radio, recording studios, and more, a personal managers association directory to find actors, singers, dancers. In Production is a directory of all the productions in development, pre-, post- and completed in South Africa. http://www.screenafrica.com/
Seattle African Film Festivals
List of films at the African film festivals, 1991-1995, sponsored by the Seattle Public Library. Includes summaries of many of the films and U.S. sources for African films. Maintained by anthropologist Dr. Douglas Paterson. http://members.aol.com/dpaterson/cinema.htm
[Sembene] Ousmane Sembene, 1923-2007
The "father of African cinema" and writer. Born in Senegal.
Obituaries - BBC (June 10), Independent (London, June 13)
Professor Samba Gadjigo's web site (Mount Holyoke College) - Biography, filmography, bibliography, critical works, photographs, awards. See also Prof. Gadjigo's article on California Newsreel.
Profile (with photograph) by Serigne Ndiaye, Fall 1998. On the Emory University, English Department, Postcolonial Studies web site. http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Sembene.html
Profile from Pegasos - A literature related site in Finland.
Internet Movie Database entry

His films are distributed by Médiathèque des Trois Mondes (in French, also has a free short film on Sembene) and New Yorker Films.
Servant of the Ancestors
"Twenty four years after migrating to Australia in search of a new life, Patricia and Courtney Nunn seem to have found it. The racial tensions and painful memories of living as 'mixed race' in Apartheid South Africa are a thousand miles away....When her grandmothers appear to her in a vision, Patricia decides it is time to go back to Swaziland to face the demons of the past and celebrate her African heritage." From SBS Independent, based in Australia. It commissions quality films from independent filmmakers. http://www.sbs.com.au/sbsi/smovies.html#servant
[Seve] Robert Seve. L'Afrique de C-M BIAZIN. Films sur l'Art / Cinéma Expérimental
In French and English. Seve has promoted the work of Central African painter, Clément-Marie BIAZIN (1924-1981). Documents, photographs on Biazin and his work. Based in Paris, France. [KF] http://www.robert-seve.com/
Shake Hands with the Devil
Film named for Roméo Dallaire's book. About his first return trip to Rwanda, in April 2004 - the 10th anniversary of the genocide. Won an Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. See also California Newsreel. [KF] http://www.whitepinepictures.com/dallairesite/
Sithengi, Southern African International Film & TV Market Initiative
Offers workshops, free newsletter, film competitions, sponsors the Cape Town World Cinema Festival and the Sithengi Film & Television Market. The members only database has contact details on African and International delegates, film, television and allied industry professionals, products and projects. Information on commissioning editors and international producers can be accessed via the Sithengi website by doing a delegates’ search." Based in Cape Town. http://www.sithengi.co.za
Sliding Liberia: a Story of War, Peace, and Surfing
Four young surfers and present day Liberia. See also the article in Stanford Alumni Association Magazine, July/August 2008. Film site has many photographs of Liberia, video clips, background of the film. http://www.slidingliberia.com/
Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives
Has a guide to the collections (includes fieldnotes, manuscripts recordings, photographs), with brief descriptions of collections. There is a guide to their film archives and links to other ethnographic archives. http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/
Sometimes in April
HBO TV Film directed and written by Haitian director, Raoul Peck, on the Rwanda genocide. "the story of Hutu Captain Augustin Muganza, who is forced to relive the genocide when he receives a letter from his brother detained in Arusha, Tanzania, for his role as a broadcaster at an extremist radio station that spurred on the killings with hate propaganda."
Human Rights Watch 2005 Film Festival - http://www.hrw.org/iff/2005/london/films.html#sometimes_in_april
Interview with HBO executive Sam Martin - http://www.hbo.com/films/news/sam_martin_1.html
South Africa's News 24 - http://www.news24.com/News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-11-1447_1493943,00.html
Internet Movie Database - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400063/
Son of Man
Premiered at the 2006 Sundance Festival (Utah). "portrays Christ as a modern African revolutionary and aims to shatter the Western image of a placid savior with fair hair and blue eyes." ""The important thing about the message of Christ was that it is universal. It doesn't matter what he looked like."
Directed by Mark Dornford-May, who won the Golden Bear for best film at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival for U-Carmen eKhayelitsha. Filmed in South Africa. CNN review and Guardian (London) review. http://www.sonofmanmovie.com/
[South Africa] National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa
Promotes the South African film and video industry, domestically and internationally. Has documents (European Union - South Africa Film Symposium, Nov. 2000; the 2001 Johannesburg Indaba), a directory of resources for Production, Studio Hire, Media, Equipment, Distribution, Stock Shots, Archiving and Storage; important industry organizations, funding sources, hiring sources, industry statistics, the full text of two reports by Howard Thomas (Pitching Secrets, The Ratings Game), and a Newsletter. http://www.nfvf.co.za/
South African Film Web Site
Film news, workshops, film festivals, film industry jobs. A directory of mainly South African organisations: Broadcasters, Regulators, Grant Providers, Financiers, Distributors, Collectives, Unions and Guilds, Film Schools and General. Advice for film makers, documents / articles about the South African film industry, links to film-related web sites. [KF] http://www.safilm.org.za
South African International Documentary Festival, Encounters
Film festival and workshops, held in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The festival began in 1999. http://www.encounters.co.za
SPIA Media Productions, Inc.
Film company founded by Cape Verdean Dr. Claire Andrade-Watkins. Films distributed include Sarraounia (Director: Med Hondo, based on the true story of the 19th century Queen of the Aznas, Sarraounia, who was trained from birth as a warrior and leader), Testamento (soundtrack scored by Cape Verdean musician Tito Paris, and features an appearance by Cesaria Evora), Spirit of Cape Verde (celebrates the bonds between New England, Cape Verde and President Pereira's historic first state visit to the United States in l983). http://www.spiamedia.com
Stanford Digital Language Lab
Language learning facility for Stanford University. Has audio and video recording capability, foreign language digital media content, ... Access to subscription based Scola (which has TV from African countries; some universities subscribe). http://thelab.stanford.edu or http://www.stanford.edu/group/ll/cgi-bin/langlab/
Steps for the Future Films about life in Southern Africa in the presence of HIV/AIDS. "narrative documentaries, music videos, experimental films, short films, investigative stories and even sexy public service announcements."

Films are available for purchase from the web site and possibly from Clarkes..[KF] http://www.steps.co.za/



Examples of some films:

IT'S MY LIFE, by Brian Tilley. South Africa. Zackie Achmat is an AIDS activist who refuses to take anti-retrovirals until they are made freely available.

NIGHT STOP, by Licinio Azevedo. 52 minutes, Mozambique
In central Mozambique lies the Corridor of Death, a long-distance trucking route, where more than 30% of the population are HIV+.

A FIGHTING SPIRIT, by Leo Phiri. Zimbabwe.
A national hero turns public enemy when he confesses his tragic secret. Gilbert Josamu, Zimbabwean middle-weight boxing champion, discovered he was HIV-positive at the height of his career.

CHOOSE LIFE, by Dorothy Brislin Ntone. Mozambique
In this exuberant music video Kapa Dech, one of the best-known Mozambican bands, uses the funeral of a young man who has died of AIDS to get across their message of hope.

IMITI IKULA, by Sampa Kangwa and Simon Wilkie. Zambia
Memory is one of the 75 000 street kids in Lusaka, most of them orphans due to AIDS.

HO EA RONA, by Dumisani Phakathi. Lesotho
A short film about four friends who are HIV positive: a national boxer, a DJ, an intellectual, and an AIDS activist.

TRUE FRIENDS, by Bert Sonnenschein. Mozambique
A trilogy of short films using hand-made animal puppets to dramatise different issues around HIV/AIDS, making them easily accessible to young children 5 to 8 years old.

NDODII? by Farai Matambidzanwa. Zimbabwe
Ndodii? (What shall I do?) is set in a remote village in Zimbabwe, the film depicts the impact of HIV/AIDS on the traditional practice of wife inheritance.


Strategies for Hope
In English and French. Produces relatively inexpensive books, videos, a training package, Stepping Stones, for community-based approaches to HIV prevention, care and support, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Begun in 1989. Based in Oxford, U.K. http://www.stratshope.org/
Studienkreis für Tourismus und Entwicklung (Institute for Tourism and Development) ( Ammerland/ Starnberger See, Germany)
"concerns itself with development related information and education in tourism." Sponsors a film award for films showing responsible tourism. http://www.studienkreis.org
Third World Newsreel (New York)
Sells / rents films and videos by people of color. Reassemblage by Trinh T. Minh-ha & Jean-Paul Bourdier on Senegal. Address: 545 Eighth Avenue, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10018. http://www.twn.org/
Tomaselli, Keyan and Arnold Shepperson - "A Confusion of Cinematic Consciousness: Southern Africa on Film in the United States"
Full text of the Oct. 20, 2000 article in the e-journal, Safundi. http://www.safundi.com/articles/tomaselli.asp
The Triumph of Evil: How the West Ignored Warnings of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide...
Site of the public television program, Frontline. Includes interviews with Philip Gourevitch and others, a chronology of events, the influence of the 1993 Somalia events, excerpts from related books, a summary of actions by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the text of crucial cables between the UN commander and Kofi Annan, special reports (The Rwandan Girl Who Refused to Die, by Fergal Keane, The Crime of Genocide by Alain Destaxhe, The Rwandan Crisis by Gerard Prunier), map, etc. [KF] http://www.pbs.org/frontline/shows/evil/
Tsha Tsha
Edutainment television drama series commissioned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation "depicting the lives of four young adults in an impoverished rural town in the Eastern Cape. The series explores the choices that young South Africans are faced with, and deals with AIDS, death, love, relationships, and sex and its consequences." Download guides and related film information. Produced by Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, CADRE (Johannesburg). [KF] http://www.cadre.org.za/
T-Shirt Travels
"T-Shirt Travels takes us on to our local charity bin to the remote fishing villages in Southern Africa to introduce us to a people desperate to do anything to make ends meet. Focusing on Zambia, this journey investigates the second hand clothes business and seeks to understand the growing inequalities that exist between the first and third world." Has Suggested Readings, distribution sources, related web sites. http://www.tshirttravels.com/
Tsotsi
2005 Best Foreign Film for the Academy Awards (held March 2006). "a gritty and moving portrait of an angry young man living in a state of urban deprivation. Set amidst the Johannesburg township of Soweto, Tsotsi traces six days in the life of a young gang leader who ends up caring for a baby accidentally kidnapped during a car jacking. This dramatic event will drive Tsotsi into an unexpected relationship with this baby where he will discover the true meaning of adulthood, love and life. The soundtrack features several tracks by South African Kwaito (South Africa's hip-hop) legend, Zola, including his most acclaimed hits Mdlwembe, It’s Your Life, Bhambatha as well as other Kwaito/hip-hop musicians." Audio clips, movie trailer. BBC article (March 6, 2006). Guardian article (March 10, 2006). http://www.tsotsi.com/
TV5 Monde
In French. TV station which broadcasts in Africa. Has program, le Journal Afrique on current political events which can be watched online. Also available for subscription in the U.S. through Dish Network. http://www.tv5.org/
United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF), Stanford University
Sponsored by the United Nations Association, Midpeninsula Chapter, and the Stanford Film Society. Location: Cubberley Auditorium (School of Education). http://www.unaff.org/
University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Holds an African Film Festival every year around January or February. To see past films shown use the Advanced Search. In the Film Series box, put in african film festival. http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
University of California, Berkeley, Moffitt Library - African Cinema; Theatrical Movies about Africa
Movies by African Filmmakers, Movies Set In/About Africa, African Studies videography (find films by country), Bibliography of books about African cinema in the U.C. Berkeley library. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Africanfilm.html
Villon Films (Vancouver, Canada)
"an independent producer and distributor of socio-political documentary film..." "founded by Peter Davis, who has written, produced, and directed more than thirty documentaries..." The Film Catalogue describes 38 films on Africa including Remember Mandela!, In Darkest Hollywood, and Generations of Resistance. The Peter Davis Collection is at Indiana University; it includes interviews with South African activists. http://www.villonfilms.com
Vinasha Productions,
Gambia independent film and TV Production company. Producers of popular TV programmes and films. Trailers of their films - Banjul Cops, Lou Waay Def, Am Sahout Nyka Sahout. Based in Banjul, The Gambia. [KF] http://www.vinasha.com/
Vues d'Afrique
Vues d'Afrique, based in Montreal, Canada, is a non-profit which sponsors exhibits, workshops, film/video/TV festivals featuring African and Creole nations. Has a schedule of African/Creole festivals world-wide. The video clips require a fast connection, sound card, speakers, RealPlayer. In French and English. http://www.vuesdafrique.org/

Their Acces Cinema Africain/African Film Access festival has a French language program to facilitate French language study through the Penobscot School.
War / Dance
Directed by Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine. (THINKFilm) A Shine Global and Fine Films Production. Movie trailer, director's interview, press articles. Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Shine Global Inc. is a "film production company dedicated to ending the abuse and exploitation of children worldwide through the production of documentary films." Based in Montclair, New Jersey.http://www.shineglobal.org/

"War/Dance tells the story of Uganda's brutal civil war through the eyes of three children.....War/Dance follows their historic journey as they compete for the first time in the finals of Uganda's National Music and Dance Competition. Devastated by the horrors of war, they carry the hopes and dreams of their entire village with them as they struggle to be crowned national champion." - description from the 10th U.N. Association Film Festival 2007, Stanford University. http://www.unaff.org/2007/f_war.html
"White Hotel" - documentary by Dianne Griffin and Tobi Solvang
Documentary told through the eyes of two women filmmakers following an HIV research team in Eritrea. On the movie site, Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/white_hotel/
Also: http://www.littlemunk.com/WhiteHotel
Wisconsin Film Festival
Annual festival which includes African films. http://www.wifilmfest.org/
Witness (New York, NY)
"strengthens local activists by giving them video cameras and field training" to expose human rights abuses. A non-profit, NGO founded by Peter Gabriel, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and the Reebok Foundation. Order videos from the Witness archive of "first-hand testimonies, interviews and imagery about rights violations and conflict sites around the world" or from the Store. Offers tips / techniques about video and on creating videos. http://www.witness.org/
Women in Film and Television South Africa, WIFTSA
"the South African chapter of WIFT international" Members range "from the owners of production companies to directors, entertainment lawyers, actresses, camerawomen, make-up artists and students." Information on training, grants, organizations, events. http://www.wiftsa.org.za/
Women Make Movies
Descriptions, information on films by African women directors and films about African women. Use the Subject search and select "Africa." See also their New Voices on African Studies. "WMM is the largest distributor of women's media in North America." http://www.wmm.com/
Wonders of the African World - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Covers Black Pharaohs, Meroe, Gedi, the Swahili People, Zanzibar, the Ashanti and Dahomey (Benin) Kingdoms, Aksum, Gondar, the Churches of Lalibela, the Dogon, Grand Mosque of Djenne, Empires of Mali & Ghana, the Tuareg, Great Zimbabwe, a 1,000 year old South African city - Mapangubwe, the Shona People, etc. Site based on the TV programs hosted by Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard Univ.) Includes a kids' activity page, teachers' lesson plans, audio clips. http://www.pbs.org/wonders/

For comments on H-Africa about the TV series, see: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/threads/index.html#Films Page down to "Wonders of the African World". Includes comments by Prof. Ali Mazrui and a reply by Prof. Gates. For Mazrui's comments see also: http://www.binghamton.edu/igcs/html/academic.htm#on-line


Africa Update (Central Connecticut State University) Vol. 7, No. 1, Winter 2000 on the debate. http://www.ccsu.edu/AFSTUDY/updtWin2k.htm

Aubrey, Lisa - "Wondering about Wonders: Africa, African-Americans, and Henry Louis Gates" http://www.ohiou.edu/toguna/spring2001/lisa_gates.htm

West Africa Review, Special issues of the e-journal on the TV series.
Vol. 1, No. 2, Jan. 2000. http://www.westafricareview.com/war/vol1.2/1.2war.htm
Vol. 1, No. 2a, March 2000. http://www.westafricareview.com/war/vol1.2/vol1.2a/1.2awar.htm
Yeelen
Film by Malian Director Souleymane Cissé. 1987. 105 mins. Color. in Bambara with English subtitles. "Set in the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century, Yeelen follows the journey of Nianankoro, a young warrior who must battle the powerful Komo cult. Nianankoro's greatest enemy is his own father, a dangerous and corrupt wizard who uses his dark magic to try and destroy his son." Available on DVD from Kino International (New York City). http://www.kino.com/
Yesterday
Nominated for a 2005 Academy Award in the category Best Foreign Language Picture. Written and directed by Darrell James Roodt. Produced by Anant Singh. "follows the life of an illiterate Zulu woman and mother named Yesterday who contracts HIV/Aids from her migrant husband worker who refuses to accept this and leaves her." "Yesterday is the first-ever commercial isiZulu feature film.."
Official site: http://www.yesterdaythemovie.co.za/
Article: http://www.news24.com/News24/Entertainment/Local/0,,2-1225-1242_1652090,00.html
Article: http://www.biz-community.com/Article/196/97/5528.html
Zanzibar Interntional Film Festival / Festival of the Dhow Countries
Features "cinema of the Dhow Countries (Africa, Gulf States, Iran, India, Pakistan, Indian Ocean Archipelago)." Includes facts about Zanzibar, photographs. [KF] http://www.ziff.or.tz/
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