FILM PRODUCTION

Negritude: A Dialogue between Wole Soyinka and Senghor

A Documentary directed by Manthia Diawara (52 mins.,France/USA/Germany/Portugal,2015) This imagined dialogue between Leopold Sedar Senghor, one of the founding fathers of Negritude, and Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, probes the relevance of the concept of Negritude, against the views of its many critics, not only to the decolonization and independence movements of the 1950s and 1960s,… Continue reading Negritude: A Dialogue between Wole Soyinka and Senghor

EVENTS

Real Life Documentary Festival 2008

REAL-LIFE DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL: A PAN-AFRICAN FESTIVAL OF DOCUMENTARY FILMS 3rd Edition: May 31st to June 6th 2008, in Accra and Kumasi We are one of a few festivals that provide a forum for documentary films and filmmakers who focus on African and African-diasporic themes. Our objective is to stimulate Africans to document their own histories… Continue reading Real Life Documentary Festival 2008

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Real Life Documentary Festival 2007

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… Continue reading Real Life Documentary Festival 2007

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Real Life Documentary Festival 2006

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… Continue reading Real Life Documentary Festival 2006

FILM DIFFUSION · FILM PRODUCTION

“Conakry kas” (2004, 83min)

“Conakry kas” (2004, 83min) . Documentary Film Golden Dhow, 1er Prix, Zanzibar International Film Festival 2004  . Meilleur documentaire TV, 1er  Prix Fiction&Documentaire, FESPACO 2005  Un film documentaire réalisé par Manthia Diawara Synopsis Dès 1958, année d’indépendance de la Guinée, la révolution culturelle mise en place par Sékou Touré, premier président de la République de… Continue reading “Conakry kas” (2004, 83min)