148 African Movies Compete and Participate at the Tarifa Film Festival in Spain

International Fri 03-06-2011

148 African Movies Compete and Participate at the Tarifa Film Festival in Spain
Press Release

The 8th Tarifa African Film Festival presents 148 movies from 23 African countries between the 11th and 19th of June 2011 in Tarifa, Spain. The films will compete for 8 awards endowed with 46 500 euros in prize money.

One of the biggest European festival of African cinema welcomes over 200 African filmmakers this year, including legendary African directors Abderrahmane Sissako and Moustapha Alassane, and will focus on among others : African Diaspora in Latin America, the role of cinema in recent revolutions in Tunis and Egypt or restrospective of Congolese cinematography.

The 8th Tarifa African Film Festival

The festival will be accompanied by the 3rd Africa Produce Forum as well as the 4th Photoafrica competition, where African filmmakers and photographers will compete with their projects to get funding from European producers. The festival, which attracts tens of thousands of film fans every year, takes place in the small town of Tarifa, on the southernmost tip of Spanish coast only 14 km from Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar.

Competition and Awards

The festival will feature various sections including: Feature-length fiction movies (The African Dream section), Documentaries (On the Other Side of the Strait section) and Short Films (Africa in Short section).

They will compete for 8 awards endowed with 46 500 euros in prize money, namely Best Feature-Length Movie (15 000 euros), Movie Directing (10 000 euros),Actor and Actress (1 500 euros each), Documentary (10 000 euros), Short Movie (2 000 euros), Short Movie Audiovisual Creation (1 500 euros) and Audience Award for the Best Feature Length movie (5 000 euro).

Out of Competition

There will be 3 non-competitive sections of the festival namely Open Screen (classics of African cinema, film adaptations of African literature...), Africa Rhytm (films dedicated to African music and dance) and AnimAfrica (African short-length animation films).

Specifically, AnimAfrica was developed in collaboration with Mohamed Ghazala, professor of animation at Minia University (Egypt). The selection of animation this year invites the young and adult audiences to travel to the four corners of Africa. The animation is kind of fragile in Africa and the FCAT is one of the few African film festivals that have dedicated a section to such activity.

Retrospective

Retrospective brings 4 sections focused on: Cinema and censorship / Cinema and democracy? (the case of Tunis and Egypt), Cinema of RD Congo (retrospective of Congolese cinematography from 60´s till the present), selection of movies regarding African Diaspora in Latin America and Carte Blanche of FIDADOC, selection of the films from Festival of documentary movies in Moroccan Agadir.

3rd Africa Produce Forum

Ten African film directors will be pitching their new film projects at the 3rd Africa Produce Co-Production Forum to Spanish film producers and TV commissioning editors including representatives of Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel.

There are 4 selected feature-length projects namely: Mettou by Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania), The Boda Boda Thieves by Donald Mugisha & Jamie Tayler (Uganda/South Africa), And Then The Rains Return by Yemane I. Demissie (Ethiopia) and Le Ntih by Narcisse Wandji (Cameroon)

There will also be 3 documentaries : Un Día Vi 10.000 Elefantes by Pere Ortín/Ramón Esono (Equatorial Guinea/Spain), Parles a Eux by Maïmuna Ndiaye (Burkina Faso) and Cenizas del Perdón by Gilbert Ndunga Nsangata, (Congo/Spain)

Apart from that, there will be 3 guest projects to enrich the forum by their experiences: Asube (feature length project) by Richard Jordan (Spain), Citizens Without Borders (feature-length project) by Lexy Uyi Osunde (Nigeria/Spain) and Jeanne d’Arc Masriya (documentary) by Iman Kamel (Egypt).

4th PhotoAfrica

25 photographers from 11 African countries will compete with their works in the finale of the 4th Photoafrica contest, which offers 3 000 Euros in prize money through 3 awards. The topic of this year is “Urban Space”. The exhibiton of altogether 27 large format photographs will be inaugurated and installed outdoors in Tarifa before and through the festival, and after its closure will be travelling the whole year through Spanish and African cities.

The 25 photographers competing at 4th Photoafrica include: Abdelmohcine Nakari (Morroco), Aboubacar Traore (Mali), Adolphus Opara (Nigeria), Djibril Drame (Senegal), Georges Senga (RDC), James Muriuki (Kenya), Hlompho Letsielo, (Lesotho), Resta Nyamwanza (Zimbabwe), Mário Macilau (Mozambique), Marwen Trabelsi (Tunis), Mimi Cherono (Kenya) and 13 photographers from South Africa: Noncedo Charmaine Mathibela, Roanne Sutcliffe, Anthony Purnell, Bianca Kerstein Vinay, Cendyl Charlton, Chandre Busschau, Costas Christodoulou, David Kutlwano Moagi, Davina Gokool, Hayden Brawn, Ihsaan Haffejee, Jessica MacLeod and Kristi Bailey.

Contact:
Filip Hruby,
International Press Officer,
African Film Festival of Tarifa (FCAT).
Mobile: +420/775 011 550
Skype : filip.hruby2409
Email : gabineteprensa2@fcat.es

Posted By: Allan Kapten

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