- Real Life 2006
REAL LIFE:
A PAN-AFRICAN FESTIVAL OF DOCUMENTARY FILMS
IN ACCRA
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRODUCERS, DIRECTORS AND VOLUNTEERS
We collectively welcome you to our first Real-Life Documentary Film Festival. This initiative is part of alarger project by a newly formed archival and documentation project called the West African DocumentaryForum. We hope to encourage people to use the documentary medium to produce films for educational and cultural purposes. During this week you will see varieties of films exploring the lives, histories and situations of people of African descent in Africa and the rest of the world.
Our program targets both young and older people, filmmakers and potential ones, as well as spectators forwhom we want to make watching documentaries a part of their visual culture. The program has high schoolstudents in the daytime and adults watching films nightly in six venues. It also has workshops led byprofessionals open to the public at NAFTI.
We urge you to watch the films, talk back to some of the filmmakers and just hang out with all of us.
We thank the people of Accra—public and private organizations and individuals, for giving us thiswonderful opportunity to give birth to the noble idea of enabling Africans produce images of ourselves, aswe know them, as well as showcase important works made by others on African people and contexts.
Words are not enough to express our profound gratitude to our sponsors—corporate and individuals. Wefeel immensely lucky and with your support hope to make this a better and bigger event in the years to come. Our gratitude also goes to our army of volunteers and associates, without whom this is not possible.Many thanks from producers, the director and us.
Welcome one and all!
TRIBUTE TO THE FILMAKERS WILLIAM GREEVES AND KWAW ANSAH
k'a yelema productions 