Katarina Hedrén talks to Sudanese producer, director and screenwriter Amjad Abu-Alala about keeping a film industry alive in times of great upheaval, about collaboration and knowing when compromise is possible and when it’s not.
Amjad Abu-Alala is a prolific Sudanese film director, producer and screenwriter. His first feature film, the multi-award winning You will Die at 20 premiered at the 2019 Venice Days where it won the Lion of the Future award. The film has since screened and won awards at numerous film festivals, including Toronto International Film Festival before its commercial release in Egypt, Tunisia, France and the US, among other countries.
This podcast series is funded by The GIZ - The German Agency for International Cooperation and the Goethe-Institut
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Jyoti Mistry
In this episode Jyoti and Katarina Hedrén continue a conversation about identity, belonging and creative expression that has been going on for years. Jyoti talks about the importance of ‘play’ as a strategy, about freedom and why she makes no distinction between her roles as a filmmaker and an educator.
Renowned South African filmmaker Jyoti Mistry - Professor of Film at HDK-Valand at Gothenburg University, Sweden - works in film as a mode of research and artistic practice. Her most recent work is a trilogy exploring race, gender and sexuality through archival sources: When I grow up I want to bea black man, Cause of Death and the forthcoming Loving in between.
Find out more about Jyoti Mistry here: https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/jyotimistry
This podcast series is funded by The GIZ - The GIZ - The German Agency for International Cooperation and the Goethe-Institut and is brought to you in 3 languages; English, French and Portuguese.
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Perivi Katjavivi
Namibian-British filmmaker and researcher Perivi Katjavivi talks to Katarina Hedrén about the search for language, haunted sites and how it is possible and necessary to be comfortable in tension.
Perivi Katjavivi is a PhD candidate in History at University of the Western Cape, based in Namibia. He is known for the Netflix-series Emoyeni, and the films Film Festival Film and The Unseen. He has written extensibly for the Windhoek Observer, Africa is a Country and OkayAfrica on issues such as culture, identity, race and genocide.
This podcast series is funded by The GIZ - The GIZ - The German Agency for International Cooperation and the Goethe-Institut and is brought to you in 3 languages; English, French and Portuguese.
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Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann
In this episode Katarina Hedrén talks to Kenyan-German filmmaker/poet/still-photographer/spiritual practitioner Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann about her multi-disciplinary healing practice.
Born in Bonn, Germany and raised beneath the tall, tall trees of Nairobi, Kenya, Philippa makes healing films to inspire and transform audiences globally. A graduate of AFDA, Cape Town, she is a multi-disciplinary; straddling fiction, documentary and artist films. With a background in poetic, intimate narratives about women, childhood, memory, intergenerational trauma and the natural world, she is best known for Seeds, winner of The Ecumenical Jury Prize at Internationale Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2017 and feature-length documentary, New Moon, winner of Best Documentary at Academy Qualifying, Durban International Film Festival 2018. An alumna of Berlinale Talents 2016, IDFA Summer School 2013 (Amsterdam), Produire au Sud 2011 (Nantes) and fellow of RAW Académie 2016 (Dakar), she is currently based between Brussels and London.
To learn more about Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann, visit her website www.philippanidisiherrmann.com
This podcast series is funded by The GIZ - The GIZ - The German Agency for International Cooperation and the Goethe-Institut and is brought to you in 3 languages; English, French and Portuguese.
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Wilfred Okiche
In this conversation prolific film critic and curator Wilfred Okiche talks to Katarina Hedrén about the importance of context in film criticism and of his aim to amplify the reach of African films.
Nigerian writer Wilfred Okiche is an influential critic of African and black film. He is a member of FIPRESCI and a @RottenTomatoes-certified critic, who has attended critic programs and reported from film festivals in Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Durban and Lagos. His writing appears on numerous platforms, among them Variety, Indiwire, The Africa Report, The Continent, MUBI and OkayAfrica.
This podcast series is funded by The GIZ - The GIZ - The German Agency for International Cooperation and the Goethe-Institut and is brought to you in 3 languages; English, French and Portuguese.
https://cinidb.africa/
This series, about African film professionals, is hosted by 3 experts in the field of African cinemas, features directors, producers, curators, critics and scholars from across the African continent and the diaspora. Each episode features one guest, who talks about their work, shares insights and reflects on the past, the present and the future of cinema in Africa and beyond.
The Cinidb podcast series is funded by The GIZ - The German Agency for International Cooperation and the Goethe-Institut and is brought to you in 3 languages: English, French and Portuguese.
https://cinidb.africa/
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