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10.07.2014 Radio & Television

AfriDocs Film Week 21-27 July 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa Broadcast

In Association With Channel ED And The Durban International Film Festival
By Brooke Nuwati
AfriDocs Film Week 21-27 July 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa Broadcast
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A world first will betaking place this month when a full week of African documentary films are broadcast across sub-Saharan Africaon DStv channel ED (channel 190) and GOtv (channel 65).


This unique film event will see a diverse and exciting range of films screened across 49 countries of sub-Saharan Africa,to coincide with the Durban International Film Festival, the largest film festival in South Africa thattakes place from July 17th - 27th.

The AfriDocs Film Weekwill connect the largest film festival in Africa through a 'film festival at home' featuring documentary films from thirteen countries in Africa - D.R.C., Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

'So many documentary films have been shot in Africa, but very few have been seen by African audiences', says AfriDocs Executive Producer Don Edkins from Steps in Cape Town, 'this heralds a new era of distribution for the continent.'

Films by African filmmakers Idrissa Guiro, SaniElhadj, LicinioAzevedo, Rehad Desai, Judy Kibinge, AndreySamouteDiarra, OsvaldeLewat, together with filmmakers Mika Karismäki, Thierry Michel, Roger Ross Williams, Abby Ginsberg and GöranOlsson amongst others, will be seen for the first time by a wide audience through this collaboration.

Five of the films screening at the Durban Film Festival (DIFF) will also be part of the programme, including the award-winning Miners Shot Down, Concerning Violence, I Afrikaner, The Irresistible Rise of MoiseKatumbi and Soft Vengeance.

These African documentaries tell a range of stories; from films about great African artists, such as singer and activist Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) and the Malian photographer Malik Sibidé (Dolce Vita Africana), to political / historical films on leaders Patrice Lumumba and Liberian President Sirleaf Johnson, as well as films about revolutionaries, farmers, gangsters,and illegal immigrants.

This week-long film event is a special broadcast project from AfriDocs, the first weekly primetime documentary strand broadcasting across Africa. Every Tuesday night onED (DStv channel 190) and GOtv(channel 65),AfriDocsscreens top African documentaries to 49 countries by satellite, and terrestrially to an additional 100 cities in 8 countries.

AfriDocsis an initiative of the multi-awarded South African documentary production and distribution company,Steps, in partnership with the Bertha Foundation.

Rebecca Lichtenfeld, Director of Social Impact Media at Bertha Philanthropies, said that the Bertha Foundation is proud to partner with Steps to help bring great documentary films to audiences across Africa,'connecting documentary film to African audiences is something we have been hoping to do for some time now, and this is an ideal platform for that.'

For the full programme schedule and synopses of the films, please go to www.afridocs.net or www.facebook.com/AfriDocs

You can also follow AfriDocs on twitter: @Afri_Docs

#FilmFestivalAtHome #DIFF2014 #AfricaNotOneStory #AfriDocs #AfricaRising

Weekly Broadcast Times sub-Saharan Africa: Weekly. Primetime.Real Stories.

Tuesday evenings:
6 p.m. Cape Verde Time
7 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (Mauritania to Benin)
8 p.m. West African Time (Niger to Namibia)
9 p.m. Central African Time/South Africa Standard Time

10 p.m. East African Time (Sudan to Tanzania)
11 p.m. Seychelles Time
From 1st August, 2014, the slot changes to one hour earlier in order to allow feature length documentary films to be screened.

Contact:
Social Media & Publicity: Patrice Carter
Email: [email protected]
Programming: Theresa Hill
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +27 21 4655805
URL: www.steps.co.za

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