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© 2003 Faculty of
Humanities and Education
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
P.O. Box 64, Bridgetown, Barbados W.I.
Mweze
Ngangura (Congo) - 
Mweze Ngangura
was born in Bokavu in 1950. He studied cinema at the Institut des Arts et Diffusion (IAD) in Brussels. After his studies he returned to Zaire and became a fellow in three higher education institutes of Kinshasa. In 1980 he made his first documentary
CHERI SAMBA... 
Howard and Mitzi Allen make
up HAMA Productions, an independent production company
that has been active over the past 10 years. HAMA's work
centers around documentaries, corporate and industrial
videos and television programmes. As members of the
Caribbean Broadcasting Union, HAMA contributes to regional
television programming...
Elsie
Haas has
a particular interest in the question of projected images
of "developing worlds". During her career, she
has written and produced many documentaries characterized
by her interest in the socio-political reality and culture
of the peoples concerned... 
What
most people think of as ‘African cinema’ is, by and
large, film from the countries of francophone West Africa.
There are various reasons for this: France’s desire to
maintain its cultural influence in its ex-colonies, which
has led to opportunities for training and production
financing... 
One of the new generation of young
Caribbean directors, Ramesar also trained at Howard in Washington
and now lectures in television and film at the University of the
West Indies, St Augustine. He has won numerous awards, including the
Paul Robeson Award for Best Film and Best Editing (1990), and for
Best Cinematography (1991) in the US; and the Best Television
Series, Best Editing and Best Supporting Video awards in Trinidad in
1997.... 
This
historic drama is about an African whose village is captured
and its inhabitants forced into slavery by the African
collaborator Adanggaman (Rasmane Ouedraogo). Traitorous and
arbitrary, Adanggaman has a round face that constantly calls
out for the rum the Dutch traders ply him with. 
Gloria Rolando's career
spans over 20 years at ICAIC, the Cuban national film
institute. She now also heads an independent film-making
group, Imágenes del Caribe, based in Havana, where she
has finished working on her 6th film, Los Marqueses de
Atarés, about a carnival comparsa uniting expressions
of the rumberos, santeros and abakuá in the Atarés
neighborhood of Havana... 
Moussa Sene Absa's most recent
film dissects the social chaos engulfing much of Africa
through the story of an idealistic young politician's rise and
fall. Tableau Ferraille offers an
intimate view of how modernization, at least as practiced in
today's Africa, corrodes traditional communities and retards
grassroots development... 
When
The Harder They Come was premiered in
Kingston thirty years ago, over 6000 people invaded the
cinema, with another 3000 camped outside. According to one
commentator, it was, ‘a measure of people’s thirst to
see themselves, their island, and their life on film for
the first time ...