> xposted from H-AFRLITCINE@H-NET.MSU.EDU
> ...an interesting back and forth, useful for those traveling to
> Senegal...
> cheers, Steve Smith, moderator
>
>
> From: Anna Livia Brawn, University of Illinois
> [a-brawn@uiuc.edu]
> Date Sent: Sat, 7 Mar 1998
>
> A student in my Francophone African Film
> Course (at the University of Illinois)
> will be visiting cousins in Senegal for
> a month this summer. He wants to know
> what resources there may be in Dakar for
> him to watch African films, read more
> about the films, meet people involved in
> making films or teaching film. Any information
> will be gratefully received.
>
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> From: Martin Taureg [mtaureg@ns.arc.sn]
> There is a local film festival called RECIDAK (Rencontres
> Cinmatographiques de Dakar) which is usually taking place
> in early July,
> if I remember right. I have no contact address or other more
> precise information at hand, but will inquire.
>
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> From: Obioma G. Nnaemeka, Indiana
> University[nnaemeka@iupui.edu]
> Date Sent: Sat, 7 Mar 1998
>
> Have your student contact Fatou Ndiaye
> Sow when he arrives Dakar. Fatou is a
> writer and has recently started a film
> production company.
> Fatou Ndiaye Sow
> Falia Productions
> B. P. 948
> Dakar, Senegal
> (Street address is 96 Cite Millionnaire)
> Phone: +221-827-62-60
> Fax: +221-825-23-46
> Obioma Nnaemeka
>
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> From: Ken Harrow, Michigan State University
> [harrow@pilot.msu.edu]
>
> when I was last in Dakar, there was a fabulous collection of
> African films
> at the French cultural center right in downtown Dakar, and
> the curator was
> kind enough o let me view films there--films I could not see
> elsewhere.
> there is also the association des cineastes senegalaises
> downtown, where
> African filmmakers and their associates used to hang out. a
> wonderful place
> to meet young cineastes, and other. I met a man who did
> lighting, and
> learned about how one works under non-study conditions.
> lastly, I understand a new association of African cinema is
> being formed in
> Dakar, under the auspices of mme. d'erneville maybe (not too
> sure of her
> name). I wonder if your student wouldn't find info at t the
> west African
> research association offices in downtown Dakar ( info about
> which could be
> obtained at the American cultural center, or through Idris
> Makward at
> Wisconsin or Eileen Julien at Indiana...).
> ken harrow
>
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