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MISSION
& OBJECTIVE
Through the art of documentary filmmaking, the AWDFF is committed
to the promotion of knowledge, life and culture, of the people of
Africa worldwide. In our inaugural year we presented 68 films submitted
by filmmakers from Brazil, Cuba, United Kingdom, Australia, Ghana,
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, USA, Germany, Trinidad & Tobago,
Ethiopia, Somalia, Senegal, Uganda, Liberia, Tanzania, Spain, Norway,
Netherlands, Eritrea, France, Israel and Canada.
ABOUT
THE FESTIVAL
Welcome to the Second E. Desmond Lee Africa World Documentary Film
Festival, (Saint Louis, Missouri, USA (February 5 - 8, 2009) &
Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies.) sponsored by the E. Desmond
Lee Professorship in African/African-American Studies, Center for
International Studies at the University of Missouri, Saint Louis.
The Inaugural Africa World Documentary
Film Festival (Saint Louis, Missouri & Lagos, Nigeria) concluded
at the Tivoli Cinema Hall in Saint Louis, Missouri on October 14th,
2007. It opened at the National Theatre of Nigeria Cinema Hall 1
on November 2 and concluded on November 10th, 2007.
Both locations were very well attended. The Saint Louis festival
received coverage on the CNN International News Program: “Africa
Today”, which aired on October 20 and 21, 2007.
In Lagos Nigeria, AWDFF was opened with keynote
address by both the CEO of the Nigerian Film Corporation- Mr. Adesanya
and the Director-General of the Nigerian National Theatre - Dr.
Ahmed Yerima. The festival in Lagos, Nigeria was covered by every
major television station: Nigerian Television Authority NTA, Africa
Independent Television AIT, Superscreen 45, and SilverBird Television.
THE WINNERS
OF THE PAST EDITION
The prize earning
documentaries in the full- length category for the Inaugural year
were:
First Prize - $1,000
NSSM
Del Walters (72m, U S A)
The real story of the collapse of Africa. The film traces the roots
of the CIA in Africa and how racism and American ignorance fueled
foreign policy.
To make their case the filmmakers use never
before heard audiotapes, films and newly declassified textual records
from the National Archives that truly revealed the real reason as
to why the brightest lights on the African continent are dark
Second Prize - $700
Revolution '67
Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno (90m, U S A)
The American struggle with race, inequality, idealism, and power
in the 1960s is explored through the story of the riots that erupted
in Newark, New Jersey, in 1967. The untold story of what really
happened during the Newark riots is told in archival footage, bold
animation, and from the mouths of the people who lived it. The film's
coda measures the vital signs of Newark today.
Third Prize - $500
Reyita
Oliva Acosta, Elena Ortega (84m, Cuba, Spain)
The story of a Cuban, black woman who was born in 1902: Maria de
los Reyes, Reyita. Her story would have gone unnoticed, even by
her own family, if her youngest daughter had not written a book
about it. A story of slavery, discrimination and struggle at a time
when being a woman meant invisibility and fighting for survival.
In the Short documentary category:
First Prize - $500
The Imam and the Pastor
Alan Channer (39m, Nigeria, United Kingdom)
The unlikely partnership between a Muslim fundamentalist preacher
and a Christian evangelist from Nigeria. The film traces their journey
from killing and vengeance to healing and friendship. It explores
how, together, they have brought peace to their communities.
Second Prize - $300
No Capitulation
Richard Dailey (28m, Cameroon, France)
Barthélémy Toguo is an internationally renowned artist
who lives and works in Paris, France, and in Bandjoun, Cameroon.
He is creating an art institute, Bandjoun Station, on family land
in his ancestral village in Western Cameroon. Bandjoun Station is
an artistically ambitious and politically audacious project that
the artist has funded himself. On a high plateau in equatorial Cameroon,
art history meets ancestor worship.
Third Prize - $200
Living with Slim: Kids Talk about HIV/AIDS
Sam Kauffmann (29m, Uganda, U S A)
In many African countries, HIV/AIDS is called “Slim.”
In this emotionally powerful film, seven African children, ranging
in age from 6 to 17 years old, talk about what it’s like to
be HIV positive. They discuss their lives, how they are treated,
how they live with the illness and what their hopes are for the
future.
The Audience Choice Award
Sisters of No Mercy
Lukac Roegler (90m, Germany, USA)
Told through the eyes of Faith, Linda, Betty and Queen, 'Sisters
of No Mercy' deals with the widely neglected fate of 50,000 Nigerian
girls whose dream of a better future turned into a prostitution
nightmare on the streets of Europe. Almost exclusively recruited
from one small animist region in Nigeria most of these girls not
only suffer from the terrible exploitation as sex slaves, but have
to go through an occult “juju” ritual that inescapably
ties them to their traffickers until they repay their individual
debt of up to €60,000.
Submit your
film:
If you wish to have
your film considered for the Africa World Festival of Documentary
Films:
please send us a copy of the film on DVD, and additional information
on the film, including a synopsis and/or press kit, as soon as possible.
The closing date for submission is December 1 2008.
Viewing material should be insured
by the sender and sent bia airmail or courier (at the sender's expense),
along with the $25.00 entry fee to the festival:
FILM
FESTIVAL ENTRY FORM
The form is available as an Adobe PDF file that requires the free
Acrobat Reader software to view and print.
For additional
information, please call Ephrem Andemariam at 314-516-7195.
Filmfestivals.com's
link to Africa
World Festival of Documentary Films:
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World Festival of Documentary Films (AWFDF)
University of Missouri - St. Louis
Centre for International Studies
63121 St. Louis
MO
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