AfriDocs
Film Week 21-27 July 2014
Sub-Saharan
Africa Broadcast
in association with channel ED and the
Durban International Film Festival
A world
first will be taking place this month when a full week of African documentary
films are broadcast across sub-Saharan Africa on DStv channel ED (channel 190) and GOtv (channel 65).
This unique
film event will see a diverse and exciting range of films screened across 49
countries of sub-Saharan Africa, to coincide with the Durban International Film
Festival, the largest film festival in South Africa that takes place from July 17th
– 27th.
The AfriDocs Film Week will connect the largest film festival in
Africa through a ‘film festival at home’ featuring documentary films from thirteen
countries in Africa – D.R.C., Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal,
South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.
“So many
documentary films have been shot in Africa, but very few have been seen by
African audiences”, says AfriDocs
Executive Producer Don Edkins from Steps in Cape Town, “this heralds a new era
of distribution for the continent.”
Films by
African filmmakers Idrissa Guiro, Sani
Elhadj, Licinio Azevedo, Rehad Desai, Judy Kibinge, Andrey Samoute Diarra,
Osvalde Lewat, together with filmmakers Mika Karismäki, Thierry Michel, Roger
Ross Williams, Abby Ginsberg and Göran Olsson amongst others, will be seen for
the first time by a wide audience through this collaboration.
Five of the films screening at the Durban Film
Festival (DIFF) will also be part of the programme, including the award-winning
Miners Shot Down, Concerning Violence, I
Afrikaner, The Irresistible Rise of
Moise Katumbi and Soft Vengeance.
These
African documentaries tell a range of stories; from films about great African
artists, such as singer and activist Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) and the Malian photographer Malik Sibidé (Dolce Vita Africana), to political / historical films on leaders Patrice
Lumumba and Liberian President Sirleaf Johnson, as well as films about revolutionaries,
farmers, gangsters, illegal immigrants, and gay and lesbian activists.
This
week-long film event is a special broadcast project from AfriDocs, the first weekly primetime documentary strand
broadcasting across Africa. Every Tuesday night on ED (DStv channel 190) and
GOtv (channel 65), AfriDocs screens
top African documentaries to 49 countries by satellite, and terrestrially to an
additional 100 cities in 8 countries.
AfriDocs is an initiative of the multi-awarded South
African documentary production and distribution company, Steps, in partnership
with the Bertha Foundation.
Rebecca Lichtenfeld, Director of Social Impact Media at Bertha Philanthropies,
said that the Bertha Foundation is proud to partner with Steps to help bring
great documentary films to audiences across Africa, “connecting documentary
film to African audiences is something we have been hoping to do for some time
now, and this is an ideal platform for that.”
For the full
programme schedule and synopses of the films, please go to www.afridocs.net or www.facebook.com/AfriDocs
You
can also follow AfriDocs on twitter: @Afri_Docs
Weekly
Broadcast Times sub-Saharan Africa: Weekly.
Primetime. Real Stories.
Tuesday evenings:
6 p.m. Cape
Verde Time
7 p.m.
Greenwich Mean Time (Mauritania to Benin)
8 p.m. West
African Time (Niger to Namibia)
9 p.m.
Central African Time/South Africa Standard Time
10 p.m. East
African Time (Sudan to Tanzania)
11 p.m.
Seychelles Time
From 1st August, 2014, the slot
changes to one hour earlier in order to allow feature length documentary films
to be screened.
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ENDS
Contact:
Phone:
+27 21 4655805
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