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 Italy-based documentary filmmaker. His latest work, Black Africa White Marble examines the continuing legacy of Italian-born explorer Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza in the Republic of…..

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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 writes for Sight & Sound, Africa is a Country blog The Wire, and Little White Lies. She is also an associate programmer…..

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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…..

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June 6, 2011

Camera Q&A: Djo Tunda Wa Munga on Viva Riva! and Congo

Who: Djo Tunda Wa Munga is a Congo-born filmmaker and the writer/director of the Kinshasa-set film, Viva Riva!. The film, which is the first Congolese feature since La Vie Est…..

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June 2, 2011

Camera Q&A: Ni'coel Stark on Film Festival: Rwanda

Who: Ni’coel Stark is the Development Producer for Film Festival: Rwanda, which documents a group of aspiring Rwandan filmmakers producing their own films, and then screening them in remote villages…..

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April 21, 2011

Camera Q&A: Patsha Bay Mukuna on Viva Riva! and Kinshasa

Who: Patsha Bay Mukuna is a Congo-born singer and star of the Kinshasa-set film, Viva Riva!. He was selected by director, Djo Tunda Wa Munga to play the physically-demanding role…..