[ecrea] Documenting Africa: Creating Fact or Fiction through the Lens, 8-9 November 2014, London

Documenting Africa:
Creating Fact or Fiction through the Lens
Date:     8 November 2014
Time:    9.00am - 5.00pm
Location: 35
Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

This two day conference on 8 and 9 November will feature
notable Keynote speakers Pedro Pimenta from Mozambique and Khalo 
Matabane from South Africa, and will include film screenings.

Other speakers include:
Agnieszka Piotrowska: Filmmaker and Reader at the University of 
Bedfordshire, premiering her new short
film ‘Flora and Dambudzo’.

June Givanni: Programmer, Curator, writer and cultural activist 
introducing her recently
launched Pan African Film Archive, in conversation with Keith Shiri.

Academics and practitioners from countries including
Nigeria, South Africa, Canada, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, Ghana, Austria,
America, Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan and the UK, will be presenting papers.

Keynote speaker:
Pedro Pimenta

Pedro has become one of the major players in film
co-production in Southern Africa. He started his film career with the 
National
Film Institute of Mozambique in 1977, and co-founded EBANO Multimedia, the
first independent production company in Mozambique, which established 
itself as
a significant entity in audio-visual production in the region. He is the
founder and director of Dockanema, a key documentary film festival in
Mozambique.Since then, he has produced, co-produced and
line produced numerous short fiction, documentaries and feature films in
Mozambique as well as in Angola, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and South Africa. 
Amongst
them are “Marracuene, two banks of a river”, “The tree of our forefathers”,
“Fools”, Africa Dreaming”, “A Tempestade da Terra”, “Zulu Love Letter”, 
“Teza”,
“Memories of Dreams”, “Island of the Spirits” and “Virgin Margarida” . 
Between
1997 and 2003, Pedro was the Chief Technical Adviser of the UNESCO- Zimbabwe
Film & Video Training Project for Southern Africa in Harare, where he
conceived and managed various training programs in countries of the 
sub-region.
His recent award winning film ‘Virgem Margarida’ will be screened Sunday 9
November followed by a Q & A with Pedro.

Keynote speaker:
Khalo Matabane

South African born Khalo Matabane has directed numerous documentaries, drama
series, campaigns, commercials, taught about cinema and politics at 
schools and
completed his first dramatic feature film ‘State of Violence’ in 2010 
and was
shown to critical acclaim in Toronto and Berlin. Set in Johannesburg, it 
is the
story of a man who wife gets killed in what seems like a random act of
violence. He goes on a journey searching for the killers only to find 
out that
he is the son of a man he killed in the 1980’s during the struggle in 
the township.
His latest film ‘Nelson Mandela: The Myth & Me’ seeks to find out if
Mandela’s philosophies of forgiveness, reconciliation and freedom resonate
currently in a world that is plagued with injustice and social inequalities.

Papers focus on topics including:
    Documentary,
docu-drama and narratives based on fact
    The role of
funders in telling the story, ie NGOs, Governments or Religious 
organisations
    Community group
‘ground up’ Documentary making
    Heritage and the
Arts in documentaries (Music, Art and Performance)
    The role of memory
and personal histories in Documentary
    Censorship and
restrictions
    Exhibition and
Distribution: Film Festivals, the Internet, Education, Television and DVD
    Documentary as a
means of delivering a health message
    Audiences
    Ethnographic films
and Colonial legacies
    Film and
television archives

Programme and registration
The fee for registration (which applies to all participants,
including presenters) will be £150, with a concessionary rate of £75 for
students, to cover all conference documentation, refreshments, lunches and
administration costs.

Please complete the attached registration form and submit to 
(h.cohen02 /at/ westminster.ac.uk)

The draft programme is attached.


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