On the heels of its successful world launch at IDFA, the critically-acclaimed anti-colonial pic “Our Land, Our Freedom,” sold by First Hand Films, has landed a deal with BBC Africa Eye.
“Our Land, Our Freedom,” a Kenyan/U.S./Portuguese co-production, and the upcoming India-set “Kalari,” to be pitched in Visions du Réel docu festival’s Swiss Films Previews showcase, epitomize what First Hand Films stands for.
“What’s important for First Hand Films is defending diversity, minorities, female voices and new talent,” said Esther van Messel, CEO of the doc sales, production and Swiss distribution shingle, ahead of Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland.
“We are so very pleased about this sale, our very first on the film,” said the seasoned doc specialist van Messel.
Co-directed by L.A.-based Meena Nanji and her Kenyan counterpart Zippy Kimundu, the feature tells of Kenyan woman Wanjugu Kimathi’s search for the...
“Our Land, Our Freedom,” a Kenyan/U.S./Portuguese co-production, and the upcoming India-set “Kalari,” to be pitched in Visions du Réel docu festival’s Swiss Films Previews showcase, epitomize what First Hand Films stands for.
“What’s important for First Hand Films is defending diversity, minorities, female voices and new talent,” said Esther van Messel, CEO of the doc sales, production and Swiss distribution shingle, ahead of Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland.
“We are so very pleased about this sale, our very first on the film,” said the seasoned doc specialist van Messel.
Co-directed by L.A.-based Meena Nanji and her Kenyan counterpart Zippy Kimundu, the feature tells of Kenyan woman Wanjugu Kimathi’s search for the...
- 4/7/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Marseille’s contradictions were particularly evident at this year’s Festival International du Cinéma Marseille, whose venues are located in the city’s loud, rundown, and graffiti-blanketed center. Not too long of a walk from the chaos one can find little oases of bourgeois indifference, from chic home décor shops to an Aztec-inspired Nikkei gastronomic haven. One doesn’t have to travel more than two feet from a festival screening to be confronted with a reality apparently unable to penetrate its air-conditioned theaters, at least not as patrons.
For one, it’s by and large privileged, white audience members who, following screenings, patronize the Blum brasserie, where festival talks are often held. There inside their hermetic bubble, as they sip on cappuccinos and nibble on pastries, it’s easy to imagine festival-goers indulging in discussions about injustice and decolonization while the racialized poor loiter outside, fundamentally alienated from it all.
For one, it’s by and large privileged, white audience members who, following screenings, patronize the Blum brasserie, where festival talks are often held. There inside their hermetic bubble, as they sip on cappuccinos and nibble on pastries, it’s easy to imagine festival-goers indulging in discussions about injustice and decolonization while the racialized poor loiter outside, fundamentally alienated from it all.
- 7/10/2023
- by Diego Semerene
- Slant Magazine
On Tuesday, on the eve of the opening of Belgrade’s Beldocs Film Festival, festival director Mara Prohaska Markovic sent her condolences to the families of those killed in two mass shootings in Serbia in recent weeks, including one in Belgrade.
After a minute’s silence, Prohaska Markovic presented the films that will screen in the 16th edition of the festival, which runs May 10-17.
The festival opens with Mladen Kovačević’s “Another Spring,” about the 1972 smallpox epidemic in Yugoslavia, and will close with a film about Serbian rapper Dalibor Andonov Gru, “Gru Is Here.”
The program, whose recurrent themes include relationships and the importance of land, has a total of 105 films, among which are nine world and four international premieres, as well 91 Serbian premieres, spread across the two competition programs, and several sidebar sections.
“Like an Island”
Ten films will play in the International Competition Program, which are as...
After a minute’s silence, Prohaska Markovic presented the films that will screen in the 16th edition of the festival, which runs May 10-17.
The festival opens with Mladen Kovačević’s “Another Spring,” about the 1972 smallpox epidemic in Yugoslavia, and will close with a film about Serbian rapper Dalibor Andonov Gru, “Gru Is Here.”
The program, whose recurrent themes include relationships and the importance of land, has a total of 105 films, among which are nine world and four international premieres, as well 91 Serbian premieres, spread across the two competition programs, and several sidebar sections.
“Like an Island”
Ten films will play in the International Competition Program, which are as...
- 5/10/2023
- by Tara Karajica
- Variety Film + TV
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