Master filmmaker Gadalla Gubara is the first filmmaker of East Africa, having made his first film in the late forties with the colonial film unit on 35mm film. However, he is largely unknown and unaccounted for in the history of African film precisely because of the solitary determination of his pursuit as much as the lack of credible cultural support throughout the Eastern sector of Africa. Gubara will discuss his own work in relationship to his life in the cinema as well as the cinema of Sudan. He will also provide a unique vantage point from which to observe the developments of half a century.