Visual Anthropology in Sierra Leone
Best wishes and a happy new year from Shooting Freetown
Enjoy a festive tune courtesy of WeOwnTV's own boy wonder Barmmy Boy
Credits: Lansana Mansaray
http://www.weowntv.org/posts/58/season-greetings-from-freetown/
I'll be kicking 2012 off with a special feature on WeOwnTV, Sierra Leone's slavery heritage and the importance of Salonean self expression...
See you on the other side!
Take a look at the Shooting Freetown Vimeo Channel
You can watch the two full length collaborative music and drama videos which were included in the film, plus all the new content I will upload in the coming months
UPDATE: You can now also watch all of Shooting Freetown here too!
http://vimeo.com/channels/shootingfreetown
Enjoy!
As they say in Freetown, Kusheh!
So, as you have probably deduced, I have decided to start a blog.
I'm going to keep updating it with plenty of interesting content, not so much my musings on life the universe and everything, but instead posts that give some more context to the events and issues in the film Shooting Freetown, photos, videos and links to related stories.
I hope you keep calling back, please Respond (to the left), Like or Tweet any post via the buttons at the bottom, or send me an email from the link above.
It's been almost five months since I left Freetown following my 2 month filming project this Summer (or Rainy Season) after which I returned home to Manchester to carry out the demanding editing process, as well as completing my Masters Degree. I managed to survive both - the film was screened in the University alongside the excellent work of my coursemates and my graduation is next week!
Now I'm based in Manchester and working on new projects, attempting to put my newly honed skills to use. I'm also busy sending Shooting Freetown off to many film festivals around the world, so if I get a thumbs up from any of them I'll post the results here!
I hope to return to Freetown soon to continue the work I started and experiment more with collaborative ethnographic documentary techniques, but until then I'm going to edit together some short pieces from all the footage that didn't make it into the final film... watch this space!
Kieran
