Hollywood, Mumbai and Rome are also called the four major movie capitals in the world. Adapted from a novel of the same name
The African film "Ancestors" filmed in Ouagadougou is an idea.
A film with high sexual artistry and strong appreciation. "ancestors"
Tell a fascinating historical story of the black family, the protagonist is a brave African.
The soldier was captured and became a slave, but he missed his homeland and fought for freedom.
Ideas are passed down from generation to generation.
The film shows the audience a picture of African blacks being oppressed and bullied.
The historical picture of humiliation and the struggle for freedom is tragic and moving. It is simple and heavy.
Heavy, true, gripping and touching. Many viewers cried after watching the movie.
I can't stand leaving the cinema silently.
In recent years, it is full of national consciousness and unique nationality.
African films with cultural characteristics have begun to receive courtesy and attention in the international film industry.
Ancestors, selection, and lamp camps have been shown internationally.
The film festival won an award.
African film culture emerged in large numbers after the Second World War.
African countries began to develop after gaining independence. At first, African films were profitable.
Get rid of the system constraints and seek self-affirmation, at the expense of film negatives and performances.
To some extent, European and American films are anti-oriented, and their contents are biased towards urban-rural opposition or ridicule.
Ironically, in a culture that can cause widespread * * *, colonialism is even more pungent than what it lacks.
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Until the early 1980s, a new generation of African filmmakers realized
Know to borrow the advanced technology and abundant funds from the suzerain, mainly France.
There is no shame in making a good movie. The most important thing is that the creator can speak with substance.
Showing rich national feelings and cultural characteristics, thus one
A series of movies with Africans as the main body have awakened the world to some extent.
Pay attention to African culture and art. At the same time, a batch appeared.
Excellent filmmakers, including Idris Jurago in Burkina Faso.
It is also famous in the international film industry. The representative work "Choice" takes the water shortage event as an example.
The tragic truth of national migration, spicy theme and realistic style recorded.
The historical misfortune also pointed out the cause of the tragedy and won wide acclaim.
Most countries in Africa were once under colonial rule, and political and economic chaos occurred for many years after independence. Of course, movies have not grown as healthily as other western countries and even Asian countries and regions. Compared with other countries, the film development in Africa started late. Although as early as 1935, Egypt, which belongs to North Africa, had set up a film studio-Misr Studio, and produced about 15 films every year from 1936 to 1945, those films were only distributed to the Arab world. Therefore, even if we really want to talk about "African movies" now, it is more appropriate to focus on "African black movies" by excluding Arab countries such as Egypt and Algeria in the north.
The first film was released in 1963.
Film history books rarely record "African black movies", which makes it difficult for the public to understand the development of this film. Film historians generally believe that Polom Saret, which was filmed by Senegalese director Osman Sambin on 1963, is the first real "African film".
It is known that in the early 1960s, with the help of the French Ministry of Economic Cooperation, Senegal made some films, among which the coachman was one. The film tells the story of a carriage driver who mistakenly broke into the forbidden area of the urban poor, showing the people's livelihood and class system at that time. The feature film Black DE ...1966 La, which was shot by Sang Bin, was called the first African black feature film, so Sang Bin was honored as the "father of African movies". This film won the jean vigo Prize in 1966, which made Sambin famous and made African films attract the attention of the international film industry for the first time.
Sang Bin, 82, has made nearly 10 feature films in his 40-year film career. In addition to being shown at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival, his new film "The Circumcision of Dragon and Phoenix Fight" also won the grand prize of "a unit of concern" in Cannes Film Festival, and was even praised as? One of the best movies in the world in four years.
Film production will become more and more dynamic.
More than ten years ago, two African-American films were shown in Hong Kong cinemas, including "Ya Aba" and "Tille" directed by idrissa ouedraogo from Burkina Faso in 1989 and 1999 respectively. In 2008, he won the jury award of the International Film Festival at Cannes Film Festival.
Roy Almes, a famous writer, pointed out in his book Movies in the Third World and the West: "The industrialization of black Africa is very low, so the film output is low …", which means that without the basis of industrialization, it is difficult for many African countries to make films and distribute them overseas, and attending overseas film festivals becomes one of them (or the only way out). Another example is the South African film Carmen of Kaya Lisa, which beat China's Peacock at this year's Berlin Film Festival and won the Golden Bear Award. This film, which describes the love entanglements in black towns, is the first African film to win the Golden Bear Award with Bizet's opera Carmen and South Africa's Kossa lines as music.
In recent years, South African film production has flourished. It is predicted that the film industry will account for 10% of the national economy in the next decade, much higher than? It recorded 2% in two years.
Driven by the reputation of Hollywood black movie stars in the international film industry, the African film industry is attracting people's attention and filmmakers' attention. However, faced with the investment desire of European and American tycoons, African filmmakers must consider whether they want money or personality.
Black actors Jamie Foxx and Morgan Freeman are still immersed in the joy after their dreams come true. On the other side of the world, in Ouagadougou, filmmakers from African countries are also organizing their own film festivals with great fanfare, hoping to turn to Hollywood and start the brand of "African film".
Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in the world, opened its doors to the capital Ouagadougou and waved to Hollywood. As an African version of Cannes Film Festival, the Pan-African Film Festival in Ouagadougou in 2005 showed 200 films, most of which were low-cost works, and the cost of a film was only equivalent to a Versace fashion of Hollywood "Black Pearl" Holly Berry.
As the most prestigious film festival in Africa, Ouagadougou urgently needs the attention and participation of black Hollywood actors. In Hollywood, the black people in the American film industry ushered in a new harvest year. Of the 20 Oscar nominations this year, five went to black actors. At the same time, in this year's Oscar ceremony, black actors shine brilliantly, and black actors won the top performance award. Jamie Foxx won the Best Actor Award for his role as fat Waller Ray Charles. Meanwhile, Morgan Freeman won the Best Supporting Actor Award for his role as a retired boxer in Million Dollar Baby.
The filmmakers in Ouagadougou don't want to miss this opportunity, so the slogan of this year's film festival is: "Promote exchanges between African Americans and Africans." This year, African films did make a breakthrough. For example, the South African film Carmen of Kaya Lisa won the best film at the Berlin Film Festival some time ago. Yesterday became the first South African film to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Hotel Rwanda, filmed in South Africa, also received three Oscar nominations.
Many participants in the Ouagadougou Film Festival include Kevin Arkady, editor and producer of the American prime-time TV series Blue of new york Police Department. During this trip to Africa, he will follow up and shoot a documentary about this film festival in Ouagadougou, hoping to let more American audiences know about this activity through Sundance Film Festival and cable TV channels. Akedi said meaningfully, "We are trying to fill a gap as wide as the Atlantic Ocean".
Danny glover, an African-American actor who played the leading role in the deadly weapon series and The Color Purple, served as a judge of the film festival and helped promote the paul robeson Prize, the main play of the film festival. This award is an independent film award specially set up for blacks living outside the African continent.
Glover said: "For me, being of African descent means shouldering the heavy responsibility of preserving memories. Through movies, we have reached a * * * understanding of our identity. " Since his acting career, he has completed four films in Africa, during which he has established close friendship with many local African filmmakers. When asked why he joined the jury, he readily replied: "As long as Africa is mentioned, I can't sayno."
Abu Doukkali Mohamud, president of the Nigerian Film Practitioners Association, said: "If you want to make high-quality films, you need to invest, and foreign Africans are often better at raising funds than local Africans." Nigeria has the most prosperous film industry on the African continent at present, but most of the 800 Nigerian films are low-cost soap operas with witchcraft, emotional betrayal or degeneration as the main theme-far below the prime-time level.
The Pan-African Film Festival is held every two years, and was first held in 1969. Since then, Burkina Faso, a little-known landlocked country, has become the film capital of Africa. However, the situation is still not optimistic, movie tickets have increased, piracy is very serious, and cinema audiences have lost half in recent years; Only 34 of the 55 cinemas in China are still in operation.
Local audiences only like Hollywood and Hong Kong Kung Fu movies, and the share of African movies is less than 1%. On the one hand, there is a lack of state financial support, on the other hand, some people complain that the concept of African films is seriously "Europeanized" because it relies too much on European investment. People gradually realize that it takes a long time and patience for Hollywood, which has just stepped out of racial discrimination, to persuade those movie mogul to support the development of African film industry.
Last year, the Burkina Faso government privatized all film distribution rights in order to better attract European and American investors and filmmakers to cooperate in Africa. Directors and producers were encouraged by this. In this process, African films must find their own way, so as not to become a low-cost copy of Hollywood conceptually.