CINEMA AFRICA 2021 - In Conversation with Sara Blecher
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In the german city of Bayreuth, during the winter of 2021, the 13th edition of the CINEMA AFRICA film festival took place. Despite the ongoing pandemic, the team of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence and a group of filmmakers from different corners of the globe were able to showcase five films, that truly showcased the artistic diversity of modern day African filmmaking. With a regional focus on the Indian Ocean, last year's films took us from Tanzania and South Africa to La Réunion and Mauritius, creating a space for stories once overlooked and untold.
During the filmmakers' short stay in Bayreuth, we, the Cluster of Excellence, were able to sit down with each filmmaker to talk about her/his respective works.
In this video Interview Ms. Marie Tsogo and Mr. Duncan Tarrant talk with South African filmmaker Sara Blecher about her film, Mayfair. Amongst other things, the filmmaker talks about the South African Thriller and her reimagination of it.
CINEMA AFRICA 2021 Trailer:
https://youtu.be/ic2xULGVZ5A
Cinema Africa Interviews:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDlHB4qY36Wi8VczSMvmrDs1zFXoRRh0-
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- Title
- CINEMA AFRICA 2021 - In Conversation with Sara Blecher
- Language
- English
- YouTube playlist
- Cinema Africa 2021
- Date
- April 27, 2022
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- okay good one sarah morning okay please could you introduce yourself so my name is sarah bletcher and i'm a filmmaker from south africa um and i've been working in the industry for oh my goodness 20 years i think maybe more than 20 years so i've been living in working in johannesburg where which is the background for many of my films my first question would just be in regards to the name of the film mayfair could you perhaps explain for those who aren't familiar with johannesburg the reason for naming the film mayfair and also briefly perhaps with reference to your previous films why you chose to work with the south asian and somali communities in this film um so mayfair is a suburb in johannesburg and during the time of apartheid mayfair was an indian so during apartheid people had to live with their ethnic groups and you know there was apartheid so people were divided indian people lived in specific areas white people lived in specific areas black people lived in specific areas so mayfair during apartheid was an indian area and it was it was actually an indian muslim area part of part of joburg and after apartheid because it had been a muslim area because there were a lot of mosques in the area because there was halal food because there was you know an islamic culture in the area when somali refugees arrived in joburg many of them felt comfortable in in mayfair so as the old sort of formal established indian families made money and started leaving the areas when apartheid ended because they could now live in different parts of the city the the muslim immigrants that came into south africa came into these areas so you had a big influx of somalis and ethiopians arriving and settling in in mayfair and what's what kind of happened and what the background i guess the reason i'm going into so much detail is it's the background for the film so what happened was that you had these indian families some of whom obviously not all of whom but some of whom were gangsters and… Read the full text about 7,701 words
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