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2nd Real-Life Pan-African Documentary Film Festival
Mon, 15 Jan 2007
Following the successful first annual Real Life Documentary Film Festival in Accra, Ghana, in May 2006, the organisers of the festival will again stage the event from 2 – 8 June 2007.
Directors of the festival Lydie Diakhate and Awam Amkpa, intend to grow the scop of the2nd Real Life Documentary Festival in 2007. “During that year, Ghana will be celebrating its 50 years of Independence as well as 200th anniversary of British Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. These two anniversaries and the year long festivities planned by the government and non-governmental communities gives Real Life Pan-African Documentary Film Festival significant contexts within which to strengthen our objectives as well as show more historical films on independence movements in the Pan-African world while developing a broader audience base,” say the directors.
Apart from inviting documentary filmmakers from around the world, the program will encompass high school teachers and children, young filmmakers in film schools from several African countries, as well as integrating African television stations. Real Life Pan-African Documentary Festival will also establish privileged relationships with other festivals on similar themes.
The festival aims to present a major platform for documentary filmmaking and to develop a vast archive for documenting African and African diasporic issues for educational and entertainment purposes through broadcast and non broadcast media.
For more information, you can call the organisers by phone or email:
Lydie Diakhate (917) 325 6412 –
ka-yelema@ka-yelema.com
Awam Amkpa (917) 575 4780 – awam.amkpa@nyu.edu
PRESS INFO FROM LAST YEARReal Life: A Pan-African Festival of Documentary Films
May 20th-26th 2006
Real-Life inaugurates an annual film festival dedicated to documentary films based on the histories, peoples, heroes, cities and locations of African and diasporic African communities. The event will bring together filmmakers, scholars, students and film enthusiasts to on of the greatest Pan-African cities—Accra, Ghana. It will be one of the continent’s major initiative and forum for the production, cataloging and exhibition of documentary film records of African people and African diasporic subjects in global history. In addition to exhibiting documentaries from Africa and beyond, the festival will include a program of student films comprising entries from Ghana’s National Film and Television Institute as well as those from students world-wide.
This year the festival will honor Ghana’s Kwaw Ansah and the USA’s William Greaves. Films from every region of Africa, North and South America and the Caribbean will be featured in 6 venues across Accra. Such films as A Colonial Misunderstanding, Emmanuel’s Gift, the Agronomist, Life and Debt, Favela Rising, Slave Routes, and Conakry will be shown at Gama Theatre, Goethe Institute, Alliance Francaise, BusyInternet and NAFTI theatre.
Filmmakers from around the world will grace Accra with their works and presence from May 20th to May 26th.
The event will launch The West African Documentary Forum—a production, post-production, archiving and scholarly organization dedicated to producing and documentary knowledge on contemporary African and African diasporic issues through film.
