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Films and Videos on Africa
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Accés Cinéma Africain = African Film Access (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
This web site offers highlights from French language immersion programs which feature the use of African and Caribbean films exhibited at an annual spring festival and discussions with the filmmakers.
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Africa (PBS Online, Public Broadcasting Corporation, Alexandria, Virginia)
Promotional site for "Africa" the 8 part television series co-produced by WNET/Thirteen's Nature and The National Geographic Society, which begins airing in September 2001. The site includes excerpted texts, photos, "teacher tools", and other resources. See also, the National Geographic website below.
- "Africa in the Picture" 10th Annual Film Festival in The Netherlands, 6-16 September 2007
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Africamovies.Com (Brooklyn, New York)
This is a commercial site for mostly Nigerian video films.
- ADFF 2007: The 15th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival, New York: November 23-December 9, 2007 and Archives (ArtMattan Productions, New York)
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African Film Festival/NY (AFF, Inc. New York)
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African Studies Videos at Columbia University (Columbia University Libraries)
An annotated, up-to-date guide to the collections available to Columbia faculty and students.
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African Studies Video Collections & Web Sites of Other Major American Universities:
- Boston University (African Studies Center, Outreach Library)
- Harvard University
- Indiana University (Black Film Center/Archive)
- Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan)
- Ohio University Libraries (Athens, Ohio)
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Kansas, Lawrence (African & African-American)
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University of Missouri, Columbia: Academic Support Center--Selected Media Rental Collections
A searchable database for film & video rental from Indiana U., Penn State, U. of California, U. of North Texas, and U. of Washington.
- Western Washington University (Bellingham, Washington)
- Guide to African Women Cinema Studies (Beti Ellerson, Department of Art, Howard University, Washington, DC)
A teaching and learning guide, with suggested films, links to selected film web sites, and the 1991 Statement by African Women Professionals at Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
- Africiné -- Le site de la Fédération Africaine de la Critique Cinématographique (Dakar, Sénégal; via France?)
Un portail des critiques, des analyses, des entretiens, des comptes rendus de festivals, et un répertoire de cinéastes. "Sur l'invitation des JCC 2004 (Journées cinématographiques de Carthage, Tunisie), des représentants de la critique cinématographique du Cameroun, du Burkina Faso, du Sénégal, du Maroc, de l'Algérie, de l'Egypte et de la Tunisie se sont réunis à Tunis du 2 au 7 octobre 2004 pour jeter les bases d'un regroupement et d'un travail commun. Il a été créé la Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC)..."
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ArtMattan Productions (New York)
- "ArtMattan distributes films that focus on the human experience of black people in Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America and Europe. Many of the films listed are shown during the annual Contemporary African Diaspora Film Festival in New York."
- XXI Black International Cinema, April-May 2006, St. Louis, Missouri (USA); Paris, France; Berlin, Germany In cooperation with the University of Missouri--St. Louis, USA and UNESCO, Paris, France. (Fountainhead Tanz Theatre, The Collegium Television Program and Cutlural Zephyr, Berlin, Germany)
The website offers a call for entries, plus details on the films and videos from past years.
- Broadcast, film, and convergence. (Online) -- London, UK: Balancing Act, 2007-
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California Newsreel: Library of African Cinema (San Francisco, California)
Current catalog, plus link to Home Page. Note: this is a commercial site.
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Centro Orientamento Educativo: Festival del Cinema Africano di Milano
General information, programme, and events calendar.
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The Cinema Guild: African Studies (New York)
Catalog of documentary films on and from Africa, 1980-1998; plus links to those in other subject areas. Note: This is a commercial site.
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Ciné3mondes: Catalogue vidéo---Chercher Afrique (L'Association des trois mondes et La Médiathèque des trois mondes, Paris, France)
Ce site offre une base de données...et un lien au site commercial du M3M pour commander les films sélectionnés d'Afrique, d'Asie et d'Amérique latine en France.
- "City of Dreams" -- A Film by Edward Scott and Naigzy Gebremedhin on Asmara, Eritrea (Eyelevel Productions, Washington, DC)
"In City of Dreams, Architect Naigzy Gebremedhin takes the audience on a historical and architectural tour of his beloved city Asmara, Eritrea, which is regarded as the most important center of rationalist architecture in Africa."
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Clap Noir -- Cinéma et audiovisuel africains (Paris, France)
Les actualités du monde du cinéma, plusieurs portraits des réalisateurs africains, les événements, les dossiers de presse sur nouveaux films, et des liens appropriés.
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Documentary Educational Resources (D.E.R.): Films on Africa and Elsewhere (Watertown, Massachusetts)
"...a producer and distributor of films and videos in broadly defined areas of anthropology/ethnography, sociology and documentary." Note: this is a commercial site. See also, a general list of new releases and the D.E.R. Home Page
- 29th Durban International Film Festival, July 23-August 3, 2008...plus highlights from previous festivals. (Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
- Festival Ecrans Noirs, du 14 au 21 juin 2008, Yaoundé, Caméroun (Association pour la promotion du cinéma africain, Yaoundé)
Depuis 1995, ce festival est << un cadre privilégié de diffusion et de promotion du cinéma africain et Francophone dans la sous-région Afrique Centrale.>> Le site offre la liste des films et les actualités du festival actuel; de plus, il y a des informations sur les instants les plus marquants des festivals depuis 2002.
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Facets Multi-Media (Chicago, Illinois)
A general commercial website, with quite a number of Africa-related documentaries and features in its searchable catalog.
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FESPACO: Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
FESPACO 2007 is February 24--March 3, 2007!In English or French: "Created in 1969 in Ouagadougou, on the initiative of a few film enthusiasts, it became an institution on January 7th 1972 by decree in Burkina Faso, because of the enthusiasm and the hope it created among the public and filmmakers in Africa. It is biennial; starting on the last Saturday in February every odd year." This site contains information about the 2003 festival, reports on recent festivals and other previous events, the African Film Library, electronic versions of some recent issues of "FESPACO News", and links to information about Burkina Faso.
- FESTEL--4ème Festival Africain de Télévision, Yaoundé, Cameroun, du 16 au 22 juillet 2005
"Le FESTEL est l'unique festival de télévision internationale de la sous région Afrique centrale. Il intègre à la fois:
la compétition TV; des espaces de réflexion et d'échanges;
la bourse des programmes TV;
des espaces d'animation et de projection audiovisuelle."
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Festival of African and Caribbean Film, Barbados (via University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Bridgetown, Barbados)
- "The Barbados Festival of African and Caribbean Film is the latest manifestation of a growing phenomenon – a recognition of the importance of visual media to the region, and an enthusiastic engagement with the processes of production, distribution, spectatorship and criticism."
- October 2003 films and filmmakers
- 17th Annual Festival Cinema Africano, Asia, America Latina, 19-25 March 2007, Milan, Italy (plus highlights from previous festivals)
- The website offers the programme for this year and full information about the festival--in Italian, English or French, with links to information on previous years...detailed program (with abundant photographs), reportage on events and awards, descriptions of new films and biographical sketches of directors.
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Filmakers Library on African Studies (New York)
Current titles on Africa from the online catalog. Note: this is a commercial site.
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Films for the Humanities & Sciences Home Page (Princeton, New Jersey)
A general, online catalog of films, videos, and CD-ROMs, organized under general subjects rather than geographical areas. Use the "browse" or "search" tools to find African studies materials. Note: this is a commercial site.
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First Run-Icarus Films on Africa (New York)
Current offerings from recent catalog. Note: this is a commercial site.
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H-AFRLITCINE Web Page. (Humanities-Net; via Michigan State University)
"H-AFRLITCINE is the H-Net discussion list dealing with African Literature and Cinema and is affiliated with the African Literature Association."
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Hopes on the Horizon: Africa in the 1990s (Blackside, Inc., in conjunction with Invent Media Corp.; via PBS Online)
The web site features video and audio clips and related essays accompanying the 2-hour television program of interviews, documentary footage, and reports. Benin, Nigeria, Rwanda, Morocco, Mozambique, and South Africa are the focus of this chronicle of "pro-democracy movements" on the continent.
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Inagina, l'ultime maison du fer: un film sur les forgerons dogon (Département d'Anthropologie et d'Ecologie, Université de Genève, Suisse)
Ce site est une publicité pour le film, mais on y trouve les commentaires intéressants des réalisateurs, plusieurs images du film, et un bon de commande. Le film est disponible en anglais. On peut lire ce site en anglais.
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Insight Media: Videos and CD-Roms for College & High School Classrooms (New York)
A general, searchable catalog of mostly documentary films....a significant number of titles in African and African-American studies.
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JJJ Niger Movies (via Ohio, USA)
This is a commercial site selling Nigerian video films.
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Dani Kouyaté -- Site officiel (Roubaix, France)
C'est le site du metteur en scène de théâtre et de cinéma Dani Kouyaté (du Burkina Faso). Voir surtout: la biographie et la filmographie.
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<< Little Senegal >> : Un film de Rachid Bouchareb -- Le site de 3B Productions et Tadrart Films (Paris, France)
Ce site commercial offre beacoup des informations à propos du film qui explore les liens entre l'Afrique noire et ses fils sur le continent américain, surtout au coeur de Harlem dans la ville de New York. Vous pourrez télécharger de nombreux éléments techniques, le scénario, un extrait du film, le dossier presse, une bande sonore, relevé musiques, dialogues, un flyer, les critiques, etc.
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Lumumba -- Zietgeist Films (New York)
Promotional site: Video clips from the recently-released film, schedule of showings in the USA, information about the film's director, Raoul Peck -- including an audio clip from an interview. There are also brief summaries of Patrice Lumumba, the struggles of the Congolese people in Congo (Zaire), and information about the making of the film ; plus promotional links.
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Djibril Diop Mambety (1945-1998) (via Senegalaisement.Com, Paris, France)
Ce site offre une brève biographie du cinéaste et une filmographie. De plus, il y a un lien à un interview de la Revue Noire.
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Michigan State University: African Media Program (East Lansing, Michigan)
"The African Media Program (AMP) offers an online, comprehensive database of films, videos, and other audio-visual materials concerning Africa as well as education services about African media." The website features a searchable catalog, with film reviews and some tips on where to find items.
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National Geographic's "Africa: The Series" (Washington, DC)
Promotional site about the 8-part television series beginning on public television in September 2001, co-produced by WNET/Thirteen's Nature. The site includes text excerpts and photographs; plus, related links to Africa-related resources and a "Kids" section.
- New Yorker Films (New York)
SEARCH for films by title, director, or country to find films or videos from Burkina Faso, Sénégal, and South Africa. NYF is the principal U.S. distributor for films/videos by Ousmane Sembène, Idrissa Ouedraogo, and others.
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PAFF: Pan African Film & Arts Festivals (Los Angeles, California)
General information, film & festival schedules, art show, and related links.....festivals in Los Angeles and in Atlanta, Georgia. "Established in 1992, The Pan African Film & Art Festival is the largest festival in the United States dedicated to the exhibition of Black films."
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PBS Frontline Programs on Africa ("Frontline"/WGBH, Boston/PBS Online)
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"Ghosts of Rwanda" (2004)
The website for the PBS television program (2 hours) about reflections on the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. The site provides excerpted interviews, links & readings, a teachers' guide, etc.
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"The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela": an intimate portrait of one of the century's greatest leaders.
The web site contains a synopsis of the program, photos, interviews, anecdotes, a chronology, and information about ordering the video and transcripts and the teachers' guide.
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"The Triumph of Evil"--"How the West ignored warnings of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide..."
This web site contains further readings, graphic and disturbing images, full text interviews and other documents supplementing the 1999 documentary on the policies of the United Nations, the United States, and Belgium before and at the time of the genocide. The role of French policies is more prominent in the texts.
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"Valentina's Nightmare: a journey into the Rwanda genocide"
A collection of photographs, texts, and sound files supplementing a 1996 episode of the PBS television series "Frontline". Note: Most of the images are graphic and very disturbing.
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PBS Nova Programs on Africa ("Nova"/WGBH, Boston/PBS Online)
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"The Lost Tribes of Israel"
Supplemental web resources (and video order information) for a program on the search for the so-called "lost tribes of Israel", the "Jewish" claims made by an African community in what is now Zimbabwe, and the problems that have often arisen surrounding a "history of origins" for the Great Zimbabwe ruins, some Jewish families, and the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings in the United States.
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PBS Online: Wonders of the African World, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- The web site that accompanies the television series -- a travel show, with brief history lessons and Gates' own personal views. The site includes teaching resources, background information, and brief supplementary texts, video files, and small photos. Featured in the series: the Nile River valley in Egypt and The Sudan, Ethiopia, the Swahili coast, Bénin (Dahomey), Ghana (Asante), Mali, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
- See also, an exchange of views about the series published in West Africa review. (Online) Vol. 1, nos. 2 and 2a (January and March 2000).
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Sankofa.Com (Washington, DC)
A promotional site for the films of Haile Gerima and his film company, Mypheduh Films. Gerima is an Ethiopian-born filmmaker who came to the US in 1967 and has directed and/or produced such films as "Sankofa", "Ashes and Embers", "Bush Mama", and "Harvest 3,000 Years".
- The Say Brother Collection -- WGBH Boston (Boston, Massachusetts)
The website of the archive of a local public television program (1968-1982), featuring a searchable program directory and an extensive digital gallery of sample film excerpts. "Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers..."
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Ousmane Sembène
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Third World Newsreel: Catalog of Films on Africa and African Americans (New York)
Note: This is a commercial site. TWN offers only a small number of films on Africa; much more on African-Americans and other communities. "For 30 years, Third World Newsreel has been the foremost distributor of films and videos by People of Color in America and by Third World and Indigenous people throughout the world. Third World Newsreel distributes almost 300 films and videos from the African, Asian, Latino, Palestinian, and Native American diasporas."
- TV5 Monde sur l'Afrique (Paris, France)
- Le Journal Afrique: l'actualité panafricaine
Les rapports complets sur les actualités quotidiennes d'Afrique en format vidéo sur Internet.
- TV5 -- Cinéma -- Les Cinémas d'Afrique
Voici une base de données sur les cinémas d'Afrique qui comprend les informations de 272 films et de 186 réalisateurs. On peut rechercher par mots-clés, pays, année, catégorie, ou genre.
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University of California Extension, Center for Media & Independent Learning: African & African-American Studies (Berkeley, California)
- Vues d'Afrique -- Journées du Cinéma Africain et Créole, 20ème Anniversaire -- 15 au 24 avril 2004 (Montré, Canada)
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Witness: Using Video and Technology to Fight for Human Rights -- Africa (Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, New York)
General information about the "Witness" program, a video archive catalog, and multi-media, online feature stories which include some on Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, and South Africa.
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Zanzibar International Film Festival: 11-20 July 2008 (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
General information on a wide variety of events and links to related websites. "ZIFF is a non-profit organisation based in Zanzibar [founded in 1997] which aims to promote film, music and arts from the Dhow Countries (African Continent, Gulf States, Iran, India, Pakistan and the islands of the Indian Ocean). The organisation is working throughout the year and seeks to include people from all sectors of society, with special programmes for women, children and people in rural areas."
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Zimmedia Film and Video (Harare, Zimbabwe)
- "...a multicultural film and video production company from Zimbabwe. Winner of many international awards for both documentary and fiction, our mission is to tell stories that throw a light on what it means to be African." Including:
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Flame - Zimbabwe 1996
The site offers information about the award winning film, "Flame" -- available on video, its director (Ingrid Sinclair) and the production company, and related links. Flame--"shot in Zimbabwe with an entirely Zimbabwean cast, the film is based on the accounts of women who joined the liberation war."
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