Welcome to the site for Shooting Freetown, a short ethnographic documentary film about creative lives in audio-visual media in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE STUDENT AWARD AT THE ONE WORLD MEDIA AWARDS 2012
'A decade since Sierra Leone's devastating civil war, from the ashes rises a new dawn of creativity in audio-visual media. Inspired by Jean Rouch's ‘shared anthropology’ and ‘ethno-fiction’, Shooting Freetown follows three people forging their way in film and music in the nation's capital, facing the constant struggles with vision and resourcefulness. By incorporating collaborative video projects, their stories give a fresh image of post-war Freetown - presented to the world through their own lens.'
It was completed as the final project for my MA at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester
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