4 PM Manthia Diawara and Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Sembene: The Making of African Cinema (U.S.A., 1994, 60 min.)

5 PM Panel discussion: Ousmane Sembene’s: His life, his films and his literature
Discussants joining Dominic Dipio will be Dr. Katebalirwe Amooti wa Irumba (Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economics Development), Dr Aaron Mushengyezi (Literature Department Makerere University) and Cindy Magara (independent filmmaker) joined by the festivals guest of honour Gadalla Gubara, who was a personal friend of Sembene.

7 PM Ousmane Sembene, Borem Sarrat (Senegal, 1963, 65 min)
Ousmane Sembene, Un Noire de… (Black Girl) (Senegal, 1966, 22 min)

On the importance of traditional communication structures for the effective dissemination of knowledge and information
11 AM Jacqueline van Vugt, Bambara Blues (The Netherlands, 2007, 70 min.)
12.15 PM Panel discussion.
13.15 PM Peter Glenn, Into the Light (USA, 2007, 82 min.)

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.

South African filmmaker Vincent Moloi is part of a new breed of documentary films in South Africa exploring new styles in his medium. In the festival he will be presenting three of his films, Men of Gold, Night Sweepers and A Pair of Boots and a Bicycle. In this master class Vincent Moloi will discuss his unique approach to filmmaking and talk about his experience in making his films in South Africa.