Real Life Documentary Festival: A pan-African Festival of Documentary Films
Following a highly successful first annual Real Life
Documentary Film Festival in Accra in
Ghana in May 2006, to which several filmmakers and
organizations gave their support, the
organizers of the festival hereby propose an other
event scheduled for June 2nd–8th 2007.
We intend to strengthen our ambitions in the 2nd Real
Life Documentary Festival in
Accra, 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.
Apart from inviting documentary filmmakers from around
the world, our 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.
We look forward to your participation which will no doubt enable us
make our festival a major platform for documentary
filmmaking, as well as using the medium to develop a
vast archive for documenting African and African
diasporic issues for educational and entertainment
purposes through broadcast and non broadcast media.
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