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Africa in Motion Celebrates Ten Years of Outstanding African Cinema in Scotlandpublicado por: REDACCION guinea.net el 18/09/2015 15:16:59 CET PRESS RELEASE EMBARGOED UNTIL MIDNIGHT SUNDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER Africa in Motion Celebrates Ten Years of Outstanding African Cinema in Scotland The full 2015 Programme will launch at 10am on Monday 21st September Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival runs from the 23rd October – 1st November 2015 Africa in Motion is Scotland’s major annual celebration of African cinema, and is delighted to return this year to celebrate ten years
of bringing you inspiring, thought-provoking and creative cinema from
the African continent. The programme this year will once again be packed
with an eclectic array of films, director Q&As, masterclasses,
music events, an African TV lounge, children’s workshops and more. The theme of Africa in Motion 2015 is Connections,
exploring the interrelatedness of the myriad aspects of African
experiences. The programme of films and events engages with the many
diverse interpretations of Connections - from political
connections, artistic collaborations, generational ties, lost and
restored cultural links, and pan-Africanism. Highlights include the
creatively curated documentary The Dream of Shahrazad that
blends together multiple stories of art and activism. The rich
traditions of African storytelling will be further discovered through a
documentary about one of the most prominent female African writers in The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo. Family ties, kinship and lost relations are the focus of films such as It’s Me, Anna and Ayanda,
both by South Africa’s leading female filmmaker Sara Blecher. Audiences
will venture down African streets to discover the continent’s cities in
films such as Egyptian classic Cairo Station and the UK premiere of Ugandan feature The Boda Boda Thieves. Lost connections with the African continent will be uncovered in the powerful documentary Bound: African vs. African American.
Fragments and disconnections within contemporary Africa are explored
through our strand of experimental films, including the striking Rwandan
feature Things of the Aimless Wanderer. The
festival will open in Edinburgh on Friday 23 Oct with Senegalese
maverick director Djibril Diop Mambety’s towering masterpiece Hyènes (Hyenas),
an intimate story of love and revenge, and a critique of
neo-colonialism and the effects of consumerism on African cultures. The
screening will be followed by an opening party celebrating the 10th
edition at Summerhall, an evening filled with African beats, circus
acts, and African-style cocktails and snacks. Hyenas is also presented as part of a special strand entitled From Africa, with Love,
which includes tales of love, passion, tenderness and lust from across
Africa. This is presented in association with the BFI UK Film Audience
Network’s LOVE Blockbuster Season, and the four other African film
festivals in the UK, who hope to ignite the fire of love in your heart
through cinema. Some of the other films in this strand include Jenna
Cato-Bass’ South African feature film, Love the One You Love and Kenyan director Jim Chuchu’s collection of LGBT short films, Stories of Our Lives. The
tenth Africa in Motion Film Festival will be host to a number of UK
premieres, and will be graced with the presence of a number of esteemed
African filmmakers, including Philippe Lacôte (director of RUN) Sara Blecher (It’s Me, Anna and Ayanda), Samba Gadjigo (Sembène!), Kivu Ruhorahoza (Things of the Aimless Wanderer), and Yaba Badoe (The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo). Other significant aspects of this year’s festival include the Nigerian-Scottish Film Odyssey,
which explores the connections between the film industries in Nigeria
and Scotland through red carpet Nollywood film screenings, director
Q&As and an industry day. The newly inaugurated AiM TV Lounge
located in the Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, will present a daily
selection of popular African television shows including soaps, sports
shows, mockumentaries, and cooking programmes. In keeping with the
festival theme, a strand entitled The Unrepaired Past
will focus on connecting the histories of slavery and colonisation to
the present. Once again, the festival will be presenting films outside
of traditional theatrical setting, through our Nomad Cinema
series, which will see films being viewed in a great diversity of
settings, including lecture theatres, community centres, cafes and more. AiM will also present a special exhibition of photographs on the theme Ways We Watch Films in Africa,
which captures the diverse and innovative film-viewing habits across
the African continent. This exhibition is comprised of a selection of
photographs that were submitted to AiM as part of a competition and will
be displayed in Filmhouse, Edinburgh and The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
for the duration of the festival. Further competition strands include
the annual Africa in Motion Short Film Competition, this year rebranded
as the Aduna Award for Best Short Film, and a brand-new documentary
competition strand. Festival Founder and Adviser, Lizelle Bisschoff,
says: “When we took the first small steps towards organising an African
film festival in Scotland ten years ago, we could not have imagined how
much the festival would grow in scope, audiences and diversity over the
course a decade. The growth of Africa in Motion mirrors the growth of
filmmaking on the African continent. While we celebrate ten years of
Africa in Motion, we also reflect on ten years of expanding and
diversifying our views of the continent and strengthening our
connections with Africa.” Since
its inception in 2006, Africa in Motion has introduced nearly 30,000
audience members to the brilliance and diversity of African cinema. To
view the full programme of AiM 2015 and book tickets, visit www.africa-in-motion.org.uk. Media Contact For press tickets, hi-res images and interviews please contact Justine Atkinson on 07971740678 / justine@africa-in-motion.org.uk Images,
logos, images, press releases, press accreditation forms will be
available for download from: www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/press Notes to Editors Africa
in Motion is an audience-based festival, founded in 2006 by African
film researcher Lizelle Bisschoff. The main aims of the festival have
been, since its inception, to introduce Scottish audiences to the
brilliance of African cinema and to overcome the under-representation
and marginalisation of African film in British film-going culture. Principal funder: Creative Scotland Other funders:
BFI Love; Film Audience Network; United Kingdom/Nigeria 2015-2016;
School of Arts and Humanities; University of Stirling; Glasgow Life;
Alliance Francaise; Global Development Academy; Coalition for Racial and
Equality and Rights; University of Edinburgh; Centre of African
Studies; University of Edinburgh; School of Divinity; University of
Edinburgh; University of Glasgow; Society for Francophone Postcolonial
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