Producer of ‘Mugabe and the White African’ to visit Dundalk

Producer of ‘Mugabe and the White African’ to visit Dundalk on Monday May 24th as part of The Reel Africa Film Festival in DKIT
The Reel Africa Film Festival (http://reelafrica.dkit.ie) is a free-of-charge film festival featuring a selection of recent documentaries on African themes. This is the third year the festival will run. It has been funded by Irish Aid as part of the nationwide schedule of events to mark Africa Day on May 25th 2010. This year the festival will take place on Monday May 24th, the day before Africa Day. The full programme can be seen at http://reelafrica.dkit.ie/prog.html and all are welcome at the free screenings.
The festival begins this year with a screening of ‘Mugabe and the White African’ (http://www.mugabeandthewhiteafrican.com), an intimate and moving feature-length documentary charting one family’s extraordinary courage in the face of a relentless campaign of state-sanctioned terror. Directed by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson and produced by David Pearson and Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, the film was shortlisted for an Oscar in 2010. Producer David Pearson will be present to perform a Q&A after the film & a 2-hr master-class with students on the BA (Hons) in Video & Film Production (www.dkit.ie/film) along with members of the public.
Another film to be screened on Monday May 24th is Angels in the Dust (http://www.angelsinthedust.org/), directed by Louise Hogarth, the story of a courageous, self-sacrificing, fiercely loving woman who chooses a spiritual path over a material one. It tells of the life-changing power of one compassionate heart. For a nation overwhelmed by an epidemic of HIV/AIDS, orphans, rape, violence, and Apartheid’s legacy of social and political unrest, the film offers a clear pathway of hope and a replicable paradigm for the future.
We are Together (http://wearetogether.org/), directed by Paul Taylor is the final film to be screened at the festival this year. It is a multi-award winning feature film which tells the moving and inspiring story of 12 year old Slindile and her remarkable friends at the Agape orphanage in South Africa. Filmed over three years, with unforgettable kids, soaring music and a plot full of surprises, We are Together arrives as a stirring and uplifting theatrical documentary.
The day will finished with a screening of the short-listed films from student short film competition, followed by prize-giving ceremony at 5pm (see http://reelafrica.dkit.ie/comp.html for more information on the film competition).