148 African movies participate at Tarifa Film Festival
TARIFA: The eighth African Film Festival of Tarifa, hostsed from 11-19 June 2011, will feature 140 films from 23 African countries, which will compete for eight awards. The festival will welcome over 200 African filmmakers including African directors Abderrahmane Sissako and Moustapha Alassane. It will focus on, among others, African Diaspora in Latin America, the role of cinema in recent revolutions in Tunis and Egypt, and a restrospective of Congolese cinematography.
The festival is accompanied by the third Africa Produce Forum, where 10 African filmmakers compete with their projects to win funding from European producers, while the fourth Photoafrica competition offers African photographers €3 000 in prize money.
Competition and awards
Feature-length fiction movies (The African Dream section), documentaries (On the Other Side of the Strait section) and short films (Africa in Short section) compete for eight awards. There are awards for the best feature-length movie (€15 000), direction (€10 000),actor and actress (€1 500 each), documentary (€10 000), short movie (€2 000), short movie audiovisual creation (€1 500) and Audience Award for the best feature length movie (€5 000).
Out of competition
There are three non-competitive sections of the festival - Open Screen (classics of African cinema, film adaptations of African literature...), Africa Rhytm (films dedicated to African music and dance), AnimAfrica (African short-length animation films).
Retrospective
Retrospective brings four 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.
Third Africa Produce Forum
Ten African film directors will be pitching their new film projects at the third Africa Produce Co-Production Forum to Spanish film producers and TV commissioning editors including representatives of Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel.
There are four selected feature-length projects (Mettou, Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania, The Boda Boda Thieves, Donald Mugisha/Jamie Tayler, Uganda/South Africa, And Then The Rains Return, Yemane I. Demissie, Ethiopia, Le Ntih, Narcisse Wandji, Cameroon) and three documentaries (Un Día Vi 10.000 Elefantes, Pere Ortín/Ramón Esono, Equatorial Guinea/Spain, Parles a Eux, Maïmuna Ndiaye, Burkina Faso, Cenizas del Perdón, Gilbert Ndunga Nsangata, Congo/Spain)
Apart from that there are three guest projects to enrich the forum by their experiences: Asube (feature length project), Richard Jordan, Spain, Citizens Without Borders (feature-length project), Lexy Uyi Osunde, Nigeria/Spain, Jeanne d'Arc Masriya (documentary), Iman Kamel, Egypt.
Fourth PhotoAfrica
25 photographers from 11 African countries compete with their works in finale of the fourth Photoafrica contest, which offers €3,000 in prize money through three awards and 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.
Photographers competing 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, Kristi Bailey.
