October 3, 2014

Camera Q&A: Cutter Hodierne on Fishing Without Nets

Who: Cutter Hodierne is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker whose first full-length narrative feature is Fishing Without Nets. The film also marks the first foray into narrative filmmaking by Vice, with…..

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July 5, 2014

Camera Q&A: Kenneth Gyang on Confusion Na Wa

Who: Kenneth Gyang is a Nigerian filmmaker from the city of Jos, where he attended the National Film Institute. In 2012, he made his directorial debut with Blood and Henna,…..

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May 29, 2014

Camera Q&A: Deborah Perkin on Bastards and Morocco

Who: Deborah Perkin is a British documentary filmmaker based in Wales, and a former-producer for the BBC. It was while working there that Perkin first pitched a story about Morocco’s…..

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September 30, 2013

Camera Q&A: Joshua Sinclair on Shaka Zulu and apartheid

Who: Joshua Sinclair is an Austria-based, American screenwriter and medical doctor. From a young age, Sinclair had an interest in film and medicine — the latter bringing him to South…..

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June 10, 2013

Camera Q&A: Christine Delorme on Ousmane Sembène

Christine Delorme is a French filmmaker, and producer for public radio station, France Culture. She first met influential African filmmaker Ousmane Sembène at 1985’s FESPACO. In 1992, while shooting his…..

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May 20, 2013

Camera Q&A: Abderrahmane Sissako on his early films and Sembène

Who: Abderrahmane Sissako is a Mauritanian-born, Mali-raised filmmaker whose cinematic training was done at Moscow’s Federal State Film Institute during the 1980s. The program concluded with his first film, the…..

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June 29, 2012

Camera Q&A: Clemente Bicocchi on Brazza and the Congo

Who: Clemente Bicocchi is an Italyian documentary filmmaker. His film Black Africa White Marble examines the continuing legacy of Italian-born explorer Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza in the Republic of Congo,…..

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June 27, 2012

Camera Q&A: Alexander Markov on Soviet African films

Who: Alexander Markov is a Russian filmmaker who works with cinema archives in St. Petersburg. He is constructing a film about the relationship between Soviet Union and Africa, using newsreel…..

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June 8, 2012

Camera Q&A: Basia Lewandowska Cummings on African films

Who: Basia Lewandowska Cummings is a writer and film critic who has written for Sight & Sound, Africa is a Country blog The Wire, and Little White Lies. She was also an associate…..

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November 19, 2011

Camera Q&A: Alrick Brown on Kinyarwanda

Who: Alrick Brown is an American filmmaker who wrote and directed 2011’s Kinyarwanda, which takes place during the 1994 Rwandan genocide — a 100-day period that claimed the lives of…..