CINEMA AFRICA 2021 - In Conversation with Filmmaker Seko Shamte
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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 Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke talks with Tanzanian filmmaker and producer Seko Shamte about her film, Binti (now on worldwide on Netflix!!). Amongst other things, the filmmaker recalls how audiences connected to the film in many different ways.
Seko Shamte is on Instagram under:
https://www.instagram.com/seko_shamte/
CINEMA AFRICA 2021 Trailer:
https://youtu.be/ic2xULGVZ5A
Cinema Africa Interviews:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDlHB4qY36Wi8VczSMvmrDs1zFXoRRh0-
Thanks for Watching!
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- Title
- CINEMA AFRICA 2021 - In Conversation with Filmmaker Seko Shamte
- Language
- English
- YouTube playlist
- Cinema Africa 2021
- Date
- February 13, 2023
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- [Music] thank you for for being with me here thank you thank you so much for having me i'm just i'm honored i'm excited i'm just thank you so much clarissa honestly honestly it's it's a real honor to have you here and particularly because it's also very busy and hectic life but before we start i think um please could you shortly introduce yourself my name is i am tanzanian i'm a woman i'm a filmmaker and my latest film is called binti that i'm here to present at cinema africa and i'm extremely extremely excited for everyone to check it out i think we are even more excited and and really happy to have you the film really caught my attention not because i just saw it at the zanzibar film festival being listed i was not there and then i read about it and i read about the director and i read about the crew and um but yeah tell us about the film yeah tell us the story so it's really it's it's a story about four women um from different socio-economic backgrounds in contemporary modern day dar and they're all going through different stages and different um what's the word i'm looking for the each of them have something that they need to overcome and you know towards the end or at the end we see how they're interconnected um so this story is very close to my heart um this is actually the first time as a filmmaker that i've trained my eye on women and i was actually thinking about that when i was thinking whether or not to pursue this um i had never really done anything on contemporary women i feel like a lot of my work my a lot of my earlier work was very male-centric and i hadn't realized that i was actually part of the problem here [Laughter] [Music] um in terms of myself as a woman in the stories that i valued um so doing this was just it was amazing it was my my co-producers were two sisters alinda and angela rupinda they're also tanzanian so it was really about us three women coming together to tell this story about about four women and first of all it was the easiest… Read the full text about 3,284 words
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