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Afrika Eye : un festival engagé au Royaume-Uni
juin 2010 | Bilans d’événements culturels | Cinéma/TV | Royaume-Uni
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Bilan 2009 et perspectives 2010
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AFRIKA EYE 2009
2009 was a good year. Over 1000 people came to events, films and workshops – more than 700 of these during the festival. Our festival opening night was sold out and the opening night performance by Mamadou Cissoko and friends encouraged dancers to keep going till 2am!
We made stronger links with more local organisations: Imayla Dance Dialogues, Firstborn Creatives, Watershed, UWE, Bristol Libraries, and for the first time, Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) in south Bristol. Screening African films in locations where few black or African people live and where little is known about Africa, is a strong move to increase a positive awareness for diversity. Libraries helped us display information about the film we showed at KWMC and local councillors attended the screening. A discussion was held afterwards with very enthusiastic participants asking for more African films to be shown.
Our 3 workshops which encouraged people from Bristol’s black communities to participate were all well attended. We concentrated on offering workshops that would help participants move towards situations of greater empowerment – events management, video production and video distribution. Two were designed to have almost immediate knock-on effects: a group from the Events Management workshop organised a jury and presentation for the best locally made short film in the Festival (in the event all entries received a certificate of commendation); and the video workshop group, Young Black Carers, managed to finish their first film in time to present it during the festival and tell people about their work. We were also able to offer an award to help develop the best script idea from a local black film maker.
The partnership with Imayla led to us hosting an emotional and powerful dance performance by Bawren Tavaziva’s company along with the film DANCE GOT ME; a masterclass with Bawren and a workshop with Louis Roger in Broadmead Galleries just before Christmas where 360 people joined in!
To carry our work forward, we have obtained a grant from Quartet to produce a business plan. We hope that Afrika Eye in the future will be better funded and expand its impact even further.
2010
Our first event of the year was to host MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICANS at Watershed to a full house and with a panel from the Bristol branch of Zimbabwe’s MDC opposition party. Next came an informal screening at Hamilton House of the wonderful AWAITING FOR MEN and a sneak preview of Simon Bright’s documentary WHO IS ROBERT MUGABE? which he is currently shooting. And in July, together with ACTSA (Action for Southern Africa) we’re screening Connie Fields new film about sanctions against sport during the apartheid era. Her documentary HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT JOHANNESBURG? last year was a sell out and got excellent reviews.
We have already started planning this year’s Festival, set once again at Watershed over the last weekend in October. Our themes for this year are South Africa and football!
After visits to festivals in Greece, France and Spain, our wish list of films is almost complete. We’ll be holding Eyefull for local shorts once again, running our video workshop and promise our usual African party of the year to set the Festival alight.
Our business plan is nearly finished, including an expansion of work into three more Bristol Community centres. We hope also to extend our work into schools during supplementary hours. And the Festival starts off with a rousing 5-a-side football match in October, followed by a football film either from Guinea or Zimbabwe.
Ingrid Sinclair & Simon Bright
Comment on our blog: http://afrikaeye.wordpress.com/
Add us on twitter: @AfrikaEyeFest
Join us on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=16782457700&ref=ts
Check us out on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/AfrikaEyeFilmFest
See our pics on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/afrikaeye/
2009 was a good year. Over 1000 people came to events, films and workshops – more than 700 of these during the festival. Our festival opening night was sold out and the opening night performance by Mamadou Cissoko and friends encouraged dancers to keep going till 2am!
We made stronger links with more local organisations: Imayla Dance Dialogues, Firstborn Creatives, Watershed, UWE, Bristol Libraries, and for the first time, Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) in south Bristol. Screening African films in locations where few black or African people live and where little is known about Africa, is a strong move to increase a positive awareness for diversity. Libraries helped us display information about the film we showed at KWMC and local councillors attended the screening. A discussion was held afterwards with very enthusiastic participants asking for more African films to be shown.
Our 3 workshops which encouraged people from Bristol’s black communities to participate were all well attended. We concentrated on offering workshops that would help participants move towards situations of greater empowerment – events management, video production and video distribution. Two were designed to have almost immediate knock-on effects: a group from the Events Management workshop organised a jury and presentation for the best locally made short film in the Festival (in the event all entries received a certificate of commendation); and the video workshop group, Young Black Carers, managed to finish their first film in time to present it during the festival and tell people about their work. We were also able to offer an award to help develop the best script idea from a local black film maker.
The partnership with Imayla led to us hosting an emotional and powerful dance performance by Bawren Tavaziva’s company along with the film DANCE GOT ME; a masterclass with Bawren and a workshop with Louis Roger in Broadmead Galleries just before Christmas where 360 people joined in!
To carry our work forward, we have obtained a grant from Quartet to produce a business plan. We hope that Afrika Eye in the future will be better funded and expand its impact even further.
2010
Our first event of the year was to host MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICANS at Watershed to a full house and with a panel from the Bristol branch of Zimbabwe’s MDC opposition party. Next came an informal screening at Hamilton House of the wonderful AWAITING FOR MEN and a sneak preview of Simon Bright’s documentary WHO IS ROBERT MUGABE? which he is currently shooting. And in July, together with ACTSA (Action for Southern Africa) we’re screening Connie Fields new film about sanctions against sport during the apartheid era. Her documentary HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT JOHANNESBURG? last year was a sell out and got excellent reviews.
We have already started planning this year’s Festival, set once again at Watershed over the last weekend in October. Our themes for this year are South Africa and football!
After visits to festivals in Greece, France and Spain, our wish list of films is almost complete. We’ll be holding Eyefull for local shorts once again, running our video workshop and promise our usual African party of the year to set the Festival alight.
Our business plan is nearly finished, including an expansion of work into three more Bristol Community centres. We hope also to extend our work into schools during supplementary hours. And the Festival starts off with a rousing 5-a-side football match in October, followed by a football film either from Guinea or Zimbabwe.
Ingrid Sinclair & Simon Bright
Comment on our blog: http://afrikaeye.wordpress.com/
Add us on twitter: @AfrikaEyeFest
Join us on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=16782457700&ref=ts
Check us out on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/AfrikaEyeFilmFest
See our pics on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/afrikaeye/
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