Shooting Freetown

Shooting Freetown has made the selection for Reykjavik Shorts & Docs Festival 2012 which will be taking place at the Bío Paradís cinema in Iceland's capital city, 6th-9th May.

Shooting Freetown will be screened on the final night of the festival, Wednesday 9th May on Screen B at Bío Paradís between 8-10pm. It has been entered into the Best Newcomer Documentary competition, so fingers crossed!

It's a real shame I can't make it along to this, sadly it clashes with both the One World Media Awards and the Gottingen IEF Festival, but my good friend Mr Ben Cheetham will be attending to show his film Saliendo Adelante (Moving Forward), so I'm sure I'll hear all about it!

You can find the programme here.

and the schedule here.

I am extremely pleased to announce that Shooting Freetown has been selected to be screened at the very first Sierra Leone International Film Festival, which takes place in a variety of locations across Freetown from March 29th to April 3rd 2012.

Shooting Freetown will be screened on Friday 30th March at 4pm in the Ministry of Tourism.

This is a really exciting development for creativity in the city and I hope it continues as a platform for local talent within Sierra Leone. Along with the first Opin Yu Yi Festival last month it seems that Freetown is really starting to develop a healthy festival calendar, lets hope it keeps on growing!

It also gives me great pleasure to have the film screened at a festival co-organised by my friend Arthur and the rest of the WeOwnTV team. The festival also features screenings of films made by KP and Janneh at The Visual Arts Studio - Deadly Misfortune and Dark Side of Life.

The full programme can be found below:

Good luck to everyone in Freetown involved in the festival, I'm sure it'll be a tremendous success and I hope I can be there in person next year!

Shooting Freetown has been selected for screening at Contro-Sguardi 2012: an international anthropological multi-media festival held 22nd-24th June in Perugia, Italy.

This year the festival aims to explore "A Culture of Work" through documentaries, photographic exhibitions and video art. Shooting Freetown will be screened in the main Video Section of the festival alongside 26 others.

I'm glad to see Fedor Ikelaar's documentary What Keeps Them Going on the list, a highlight from Antropofest 2012, as well as a number of other films by Granada Centre alumni. I hope to make it along to this one in person, we'll see a little closer to the time, although Italy in June is rather tempting!

The venue for the festival is C.E.R.P., Rocca Paolina Exhibition Centre. See the full selection here.

Shooting Freetown has been selected for the Student Films section of the Days of Ethnographic Film festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

It will be screened at 8pm, Tuesday March 13th 2012 at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum.

Also showing on the programme will be two other Granada Centre films - Saliendo Adelante (Moving Forward) by Ben Cheetham and Tender Kisses are Hard to Find by Ines Ponte. Congratulations!

The full programme can be found here.

Shooting Freetown has been chosen as a finalist for the fifth annual Africa World Documentary Film Festival.

The festival is sponsored by the E. Desmond Lee Professorship in African/African American Studies, Center for International Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis. The AWDFF has as its objective the promotion of knowledge and culture of the people of Africa, in a Pan-African context.

It is held in multiple global locations throughout the first half of 2012.

UPDATE: Shooting Freetown has been confirmed at the following locations

• 10th March

University of the West Indies

E.B.C.C.I. Cinemateque

Cave Hill, Barbados

• 26th April

University of Kansas

Spencer Museum of Art

Lawrence, KS, USA

• 6th May

Obafemi Awolowo University

Ile-Ife, Nigeria

May 1-6

I'm really glad to add screenings in North America, the Caribbean and Africa to Shooting Freetown's list!

It's turning out to be a great month for festival news: Shooting Freetown will be screened at the Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival, Germany.

The festival takes place from May 9-13, 2012 in the Paulinerkirche (below) in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony.

The film will compete in the Student Competition on May 9th and was chosen from 155 films submitted this year. I'll be attending the festival in person to take part in discussions.

Very much looking forward to visiting Germany again!

UPDATED (24/2):

Shooting Freetown will be screened at the very first African Film Festival Australia, which will tour the country during 2012.

Sydney and Melbourne are where the festival will begin in April and Shooting Freetown is one of only 9 films selected for these screenings!

The film will be screened in cities across Australia as part of the African Shorts programme.

Africa Shorts at African Film Festival Australia

Saturday the 7th April, 4.20pm

Dendy Circular Quay

Sydney

 

Saturday the 14th April, 12pm

Red Bennies

Melbourne

I noticed that Shooting Freetown is in good company on the Africa Shorts selection: of the five films being screened, four have connections to Sierra Leone.

There's the animation Money Tree by Hawanatu Bangura plus two films by Sierra Leonean-American film-maker Nikyatu Jusu including Black Swan Theory.

See Nikyatu's Vimeo to watch Say Grace Before Drowning and see more of her work.

Call back to this blog post which I will update when more information becomes available about the other screenings.

It's really exciting to be part of this new festival, I hope it's a great success!

I am pleased to announce that Shooting Freetown will have its very first festival screening and European Premiere at Antropofest 2012, Czech Republic.

Shooting Freetown will be screened at the Dobeska Theatre in Prague on Saturday 28th January 2011 at 19:35. I will be attending personally to show the film and take part in the discussion that follows.

Also on the programme are four other films produced by the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology: 

 Art On The Road (2011), Memories for Sale (2009), Saliendo Adelante (2011) and Tender Kisses are Hard to Find (2011).

Congratulations to my colleagues, what a great start to the new year!