Organized by Sudan Film Factory, the Sudan Independent Film Festival (Siff) returns for a second year, later this month, with films from various countries screened in 4 locations across the capital Khartoum. 6 years after the death of late Sudanese filmmaker, and one of the founding fathers of African cinema, Gadalla Gubara (1920 – 2008), came the first annual Sudan Independent Film Festival (Siff), which kicked off its inaugural edition a year ago, January 21, 2014, in Khartoum. Gadalla Gubara began his work as African cinema was emerging, a time of great optimism after independence from colonialism, a time when Sudan was producing its own films, when...
- 1/16/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
6 years after the death of late Sudanese filmmaker, and one of the founding fathers of African cinema, Gadalla Gubara (1920 – 2008), comes the first annual Sudan Independent Film Festival (Siff), which kicks off its inaugural edition today January 21, 2014, in Khartoum. Gadalla Gubara began his work as African cinema was emerging, a time of great optimism after independence from colonialism, a time when Sudan was producing its own films, when there were greater freedoms, before the horrors and struggles/splits of Sudan today (South Sudan, which officially became an independent state in 2011 - although there's a long history, going back to the 1950s, and the...
- 1/21/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Courtesy of Film Africa which is currently underway in London, running through the 11th, a documentary on the late Sudanese film-maker, and one of the founding fathers of African cinema, Gadalla Gubara (1920 – 2008) from filmmaker Frédérique Cifuentes, titled Cinema in Sudan: Conversations with Gadalla Gubara. He was still working at the age of eighty-eight – one of the pioneers of cinema in Africa. He lost his sight at the age of 80, but still continued to film life in Sudan as no one before him. Through his oeuvre, Gadalla reveals to us a Sudan both mysterious and misunderstood. Despite censorship and lack of financial support over sixty...
- 11/8/2012
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
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