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Film Screenings | Thursday May 4, 2006 |
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! All Screenings and Events are free of charge ! |
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Films highlighted in Yellow take part in the
Golden Impala Best Short African Film Competition. |
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OPENING NIGHT
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| 6.00 pm |
Amakula Marching Band
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| 6.30 pm |
Dudley Murphy, St. Louis Blues (1929, USA, 16 min.)
One of the first sound films starring Bessie Smith is based on her hit St Louis Blues. It is the only audio visual evidence of one of the truly great voices.
Dikuula
Dikuula, the name he and his colleagues give themselves because of the shapeless figure they create, is a comedian who has mastered the art of being a social critic with humor during his news bulletins.
Nyonza Singers
This choir, conducted by Sam Muwonge and Wassanyi Serukenya, will perform Abedda Bo Baagera Bulungi, He That Hath a Pleasant Face, Abayira, and Omuntu Muntu.
Introducing Ola Balogun:
Ola Balogun, Dialogue with the other World (Nigeria, 2005)
About the Eyo masquerade display in Lagos held periodically to mark the death of prominent sons of the soil to communicate with the ancestors in the other.
Umucyo Ngoma Africa Troupe
This Rwandan troupe perform music and dance from Rwanda demonstrating epics commemorating excellence and bravery and humorous lyrics about hunting roots.
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| 9.30 pm |
Stanley Nelson, Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice (USA, 2005, 84 min.)
This unique all female a cappella singing integrates blues, jazz, hip-hop and traditional West-African songs with politically charged lyrics that call listeners to action.
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| 10.30 pm |
Andrew L. Stone, Stormy Weather (1943, USA, 78 min.)
Dooley’s attempts to con his way into show business management. A lot of familiar faces band together in this return to black musical fantasy land.
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| 11.45 pm |
Bud Pollard, Look Out, Sister! (1947, USA, 63 min.)
Featuring Louis Jordan and his Typani Five this is a clear progenitor of what we have been calling rock and roll since the mid fifties but back in the forties this was still ‘race music’.
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