Cinema Africa 2023 - A conversation with Gudrun Columbus Mwanyika
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Duncan Tarrant interviews the leading actor Gudrun Columbus Mwanyika of the film "Tug of War" that was presented at the 2023 Cinema Africa film festival in Bayreuth. Apart from being an actor Gudrun Columbus Mwanyika from Tanzania is also a producer and filmmaker.
During the film festival he represented the movie "Vuta N‘Kuvute" (Tug of War) - a feature-length fiction based on Adam Shafis award-winning Swahili novel. The story explores a forbidden romance between star-crossed lovers against the backdrop of 1950s colonial Zanzibar. Young Indian-Zanzibari Yasmin flees from her arranged marriage and meets Dengé, a young revolutionary.
Cinema Africa 2023 in Bayreuth was organised by the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth and curated by Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler.
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- Cinema Africa 2023 - A conversation with Gudrun Columbus Mwanyika
- Language
- English
- Date
- February 14, 2023
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- foreign Columbus one UK as part of the Africa Cinema Festival in Byron and part of the Africa multiple cluster um goodrin who starred in the film tug of war is with us for an interview and the film was shown as the inaugural film at the cinema as part of this Festival um do you would you like to say a little bit about yourself before I go into the questions about the film yeah as you're ready to use me as my name is guran Carlos from Dar es Salaam Tanzania I'm an actor um and for my television Personnel also I can on theater too yeah great thank you so much thank you so um the film that we saw tug of war or Wutang yeah tells the story of your character denge and Yasmin and the love story and their struggle in the politically charged atmosphere of 1950s Zanzibar [Music] before going a little bit more into the details of of the film could you tell us a little bit about the filming process the casting process when and where you filmed how long it took those the basics of that sort of thing yeah okay so I'll I will say on my part as an actor because I mean the world production took like three to four years and I wasn't part of the pre-production so my my my my fifth look of photographer was in 2019 July where I saw the poster that there is a audition for the actors for the film called tiger 4 directed by emotions I personally know the director of machine he was my director at University of Larissa by the time I was taking my bachelor degree in theater film with the revision so I know how great he is and I had to take a boat from the restaurant to zarzba for the audition yeah it was one of the my toughest audition ever because on my day I think I went on the second day of the audition and my number was like 182 and there were like 300 people waiting on the line for the audition and so those were people who were all from Zanzibar they're all over there all over Tanzania and even out of Tanzania like class my fellow co-actor she's from Mombasa so some people came from… Read the full text about 4,018 words
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