lifecinematicwithandrewinfante:
New Michel Gondry film, “The We and I”.
I’m so over films about young people of color being made by old white dudes.
I think this could be a cute movie. If more (mainstream) people of color would make films like this, old white dudes wouldn’t have to make them.
“I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho, and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Victoria Falls, Zambia
Photograph by Annie Griffiths, National Geographic
(Source: National Geographic, via africaisdonesuffering)
Film: Kirikou and the Sorceress (Kirikou et la Sorcière) is a 1998 traditional animation feature film written and directed by Michel Ocelot. Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn boy, Kirikou, saves his village from the evil witch Karaba.
It is a co-production between companies in France, Belgium and Luxembourg and animated at Rija Films’ studio in Latvia and Studio Exist in Hungary. The voices and music recorded in Senegal.The original French voice acting was performed by a cast of West African actors and schoolchildren and recorded in Dakar. The English dubbing, also directed by Ocelot, was made in South Africa. Music by Senegalese singer; Youssou N’Dour.
{TRIGGER WARNING: female genital cutting, female circumcision]
When I want to know about the horrific act of genital mutilation, I don’t listen to the testimony of a biracial man living in Sweden. I listen to a black woman from Sudan who has actually experienced it.
Yes to everything that was said in this piece.
Really really good visual essay about the shooting style of the wire, and how it added to the appeal of the show.
Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 10 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist. She actively campaigned against the South African system of apartheid. As a result, the South African government revoked her citizenship and right of return. After the end of apartheid she returned home.
Ms. Makeba.
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