Surfing Soweto is a documentary film by Sara Blecher set in Soweto, South Africa. It was screened in London at the film festival Film Africa 2011, followed by a lively Q&A with the director about the difficulty in filming train surfing, and the ethics involved in telling the stories of young and disenfranchised South African men. This podcast includes a discussion of the film as well as an interview with the director conducted by Robin Steedman.
Restless City is a film by Andrew Dosunmu, a Nigerian director based in New York, which was screened in the 55th BFI London Film Festival last October, 2011. In this podcast, Estrella Sendra reviews a variety of aspects of this story about a young Senegalese man called Djibril who emigrates to New York, seeking to become a musician.
The documentary film Body and Soul set in Maputo, Mozambique, was screened at the Film Africa 2011 film festival in London, where it provoked a lively debate amongst audience members about several issues including the representation of disability and the ethics of filmmaking. In this podcast, Estrella Sendra and Caitlin Pearson discuss aspects of the film, and include sections of an interview conducted at the festival with the filmmaker Matthieu Bron.
In this podcast, Lindiwe Dovey - Senior Lecturer in African Film at SOAS - interviews the Congolese filmmaker Djo Tunda Wa Munga, writer and director of the multi-award-winning film VIVA RIVA!, currently screening in cinemas across the UK.
The Cambridge African Film Festival (CAFF) is the oldest annual African film festival in the UK, and a society of the University of Cambridge. It was initiated in May 2002 by a small group of graduate students at the University of Cambridge as a way of screening the best contemporary African films, increasing knowledge and awareness of African and black culture in the UK. In this podcast, Dr Lindiwe Dovey, Lecturer in African Film at SOAS, gives a detailed description of the festival and previews some of the most important films showing in the 2009 edition.
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