The film reveals how the African American sculptor Melvin Edwards, nowadays a worldwide recognized artist, has established along 5 decades his own artistic language.----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Synopsis Born in the South of the US in the late 30’s, during the segregation, nowadays the sculptor Melvin Edwards is a worldwide recognized artist. As black internationalist, pan-Africanist, and… Continue reading “Some Bright Morning: The Art of Melvin Edwards,” a documentary by Lydie Diakhaté
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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
Edouard Glissant : un monde en relation (2010, 51min)
Edouard Glissant : un monde en relation Un film documentaire réalisé par Manthia Diawara (51 min., 2010) Manthia Diawara a suivi Edouard Glissant sur le Queen Mary II, pour une traversée de l’Atlantique entre South Hampton (UK) et Brooklyn (New York) ainsi qu’à la Martinique, pays natal d’Edouard Glissant. Voyages exceptionnels qui se sont traduits… Continue reading Edouard Glissant : un monde en relation (2010, 51min)
“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)
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