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Film Programme
2:00 pm Film: Scriptwriting Workshop
Sade Turnipseed
7:00 pm Film Workshop: Producing the Independent Film
Charles Burnett
7:00 pm Film Workshop – Post-Production & Distribution
Ed Santiago
7:00 pm Film: Namibia : The Struggle for Liberation , Charles Burnett
Nearly three hours long, Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is an epic that spans 60 years of history. With 150 speaking roles in multiple languages and dialects, dramatizing Namibia's fight for liberation from South African occupation that culminated in Namibia's independence in 1990. The cast includes Carl Lumbly and Danny Glover as well as local African actors, and the crew used former soldiers from both Namibia and South Africa who had fought against each other.
Q&A with filmmaker
7:00 pm Film: A Winter's Tale, Frances Anne Solomon
A Winter Tale is a 2007 Canadian dramatic feature film, written, directed and produced by Frances-Anne Solomon . It premiered at the ReelWorld Film Festival where it won the Outstanding Canadian Feature Film Award, as well as Special Mention in the Outstanding Screenplay category. It tells the story of a black men's support group that begins to meet at a Caribbean Takeaway restaurant in the aftermath of the shooting death of a local child. It was developed through a collaborative improvisational process with the cast, who were drawn from Toronto 's Caribbean and multicultural communities. It was shot on location in Parkdale, Toronto .
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2:00 pm Film Workshop: Writing and Developing A Winter's Tale
– Frances Anne Solomon
7:00 pm Film: Ezra – Newton Aduaka
Ezra, a 16-year-old former child soldier who spent ten years living and fighting with a rebel faction, is questioned before a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the wake of Sierra Leone 's civil war. The commissions, based on the idea of transitional justice and modeled on the one in South Africa , were meant to be not punitive but restorative, therapeutic for those whose human rights have been violated but also for the violators themselves. Ezra is in deep denial and clearly suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Only once Ezra admits his crimes, realizes how he came to commit them and repents for the suffering he has caused, will he be ready to rejoin society and make peace with himself.
Q&A with filmmaker
2:00 pm Film Workshop: Lessons from Africa – Moussa Absa Sene
7:00 pm Film: Teranga Blues – Moussa Absa Sene
After being discovered illegally residing in France , a young Senegalese musician is sent home with only 20 euros in his pocket. After a series of poor decisions, he falls into an abyss of failure. A kind of Dakar urban rap musical, Teranga Blues is a reflection on the social mutations affecting the pride of the Senegalese people.
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