International Documentary Conference 2007
Johannesburg, South Africa
English
YOU ARE INVITED TO REGISTER FOR THE PEOPLE to PEOPLE
International Documentary Conference
13, 14, 15 September 2007 – Johannesburg, South Africa
South Africa’s first full scale, dedicated documentary conference event.
An exciting new initiative in the Southern African documentary film industry is
to be inaugurated in September this year, the PEOPLE to PEOPLE International
Documentary Conference.
Scheduled for the 13, 14 and 15 September at Atlas Studios in the precinct of
Stanley Avenue in Johannesburg, PEOPLE to PEOPLE is South Africa’s first full
scale, dedicated documentary conference event.
The Southern Africa Communications for Development (SACOD), a long-
standing network of industry practitioners from 11 southern African countries,
and the well-established festivals, the Tri Continental Film Festival and the
Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, are the joint
initiators of the conference.
The conference arises from the need of its sponsoring organisations to take
forward their respective work to fulfill the critical role of documentary film in
Africa and in the South, not least in making for fraternal relations between the
peoples of the world on the basis of a critical consciousness.
PEOPLE to PEOPLE aims to add power to the interests and concerns of the
documentary genre by:-
meaningfully engaging its subject and thematic matter;
interrogating the environment and means of its production and dissemination in
Africa and the South;
and promoting its continued innovation and development.
The conference, to be held every two years, is timed to coincide alternately
with the Tri Continental Film Festival in September and, Encounters South
African International Documentary Festival in June. This year the conference
will coincide with the Tri Continental Film Festival that is scheduled to take
place between 14 and 24 September in Johannesburg (and 21 to 30 September
in Cape Town).
Leading personalities are billed to participate in a feast of panel discussions,
debates and master classes.
Programme highlights include:
· A keynote address by filmmaker and academic, Prof Bheki Peterson, to
coincide with the 30th anniversary of the death in detention of Steve Biko on
the value of Biko’s thinking for « self-referential » documentary filmmaking in the
South;
· Instructive sessions, including master classes, across the full spectrum
of the production value chain by the likes of Connie Field (USA), Jihan El Tahri
(Egypt-France), Newton Aduaka (Nigeria -UK/France), Licinio Azevedo
(Mozambique) and local talents Vincent Moloi, Steve Mokwena, Rehad Desai,
Francois Verster, Vuyani Sondlo and Catherine Myburgh.
· A roundtable discussion on South Africa’s national debate, crime, with
reference to Mick Davies’ thought provoking film, « The Choir ». Discussants
include the MEC for Safety and Security, Firoz Cachalia, and the chair of the
Human Rights Commission, Jodi Kollapen;
· Testimonies of social, political and legislative conditions under which
documentary may be suppressed, including by Michael Raeburn, the director of
Zimbabwe Countdown; Simon Wilkie of Namibia on the reticence of his subjects
to exhibition of, Testimony, an expose of SWAPO detention dungeons; and Ben
Cashdan on the withdrawal from schedule of Unauthorised: Thabo Mbeki;
· A devil’s advocate provocation by Jean-Pierre Bekolo (Cameroon-
France) based on the 1960’s « Africa Addio », abidingly controversial in its
representation of Africa following decolonisation;
· A formal debate between producers and broadcasters on Intellectual
Property ownership entitled: Who Pays, Owns.
· An exploration of filmmaking as a spiritual experience
Register at www.sacod.org.za
Contact:
Lavinia Jonasi or Arya Lalloo
Conference Administrators
Cell: +27 (0)76 909 6555
Tel: +27 (0)11 403 8416 / 8471 / 8472
Fax: +27 (0)11 403 8474
[email protected]
International Documentary Conference
13, 14, 15 September 2007 – Johannesburg, South Africa
South Africa’s first full scale, dedicated documentary conference event.
An exciting new initiative in the Southern African documentary film industry is
to be inaugurated in September this year, the PEOPLE to PEOPLE International
Documentary Conference.
Scheduled for the 13, 14 and 15 September at Atlas Studios in the precinct of
Stanley Avenue in Johannesburg, PEOPLE to PEOPLE is South Africa’s first full
scale, dedicated documentary conference event.
The Southern Africa Communications for Development (SACOD), a long-
standing network of industry practitioners from 11 southern African countries,
and the well-established festivals, the Tri Continental Film Festival and the
Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, are the joint
initiators of the conference.
The conference arises from the need of its sponsoring organisations to take
forward their respective work to fulfill the critical role of documentary film in
Africa and in the South, not least in making for fraternal relations between the
peoples of the world on the basis of a critical consciousness.
PEOPLE to PEOPLE aims to add power to the interests and concerns of the
documentary genre by:-
meaningfully engaging its subject and thematic matter;
interrogating the environment and means of its production and dissemination in
Africa and the South;
and promoting its continued innovation and development.
The conference, to be held every two years, is timed to coincide alternately
with the Tri Continental Film Festival in September and, Encounters South
African International Documentary Festival in June. This year the conference
will coincide with the Tri Continental Film Festival that is scheduled to take
place between 14 and 24 September in Johannesburg (and 21 to 30 September
in Cape Town).
Leading personalities are billed to participate in a feast of panel discussions,
debates and master classes.
Programme highlights include:
· A keynote address by filmmaker and academic, Prof Bheki Peterson, to
coincide with the 30th anniversary of the death in detention of Steve Biko on
the value of Biko’s thinking for « self-referential » documentary filmmaking in the
South;
· Instructive sessions, including master classes, across the full spectrum
of the production value chain by the likes of Connie Field (USA), Jihan El Tahri
(Egypt-France), Newton Aduaka (Nigeria -UK/France), Licinio Azevedo
(Mozambique) and local talents Vincent Moloi, Steve Mokwena, Rehad Desai,
Francois Verster, Vuyani Sondlo and Catherine Myburgh.
· A roundtable discussion on South Africa’s national debate, crime, with
reference to Mick Davies’ thought provoking film, « The Choir ». Discussants
include the MEC for Safety and Security, Firoz Cachalia, and the chair of the
Human Rights Commission, Jodi Kollapen;
· Testimonies of social, political and legislative conditions under which
documentary may be suppressed, including by Michael Raeburn, the director of
Zimbabwe Countdown; Simon Wilkie of Namibia on the reticence of his subjects
to exhibition of, Testimony, an expose of SWAPO detention dungeons; and Ben
Cashdan on the withdrawal from schedule of Unauthorised: Thabo Mbeki;
· A devil’s advocate provocation by Jean-Pierre Bekolo (Cameroon-
France) based on the 1960’s « Africa Addio », abidingly controversial in its
representation of Africa following decolonisation;
· A formal debate between producers and broadcasters on Intellectual
Property ownership entitled: Who Pays, Owns.
· An exploration of filmmaking as a spiritual experience
Register at www.sacod.org.za
Contact:
Lavinia Jonasi or Arya Lalloo
Conference Administrators
Cell: +27 (0)76 909 6555
Tel: +27 (0)11 403 8416 / 8471 / 8472
Fax: +27 (0)11 403 8474
[email protected]
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