I just got their mailing announcing the 1998 winners from the May 1998
festival. Here are the African films that won this year and also last
year... Congratulations to all!
Cheers, Steve Smith, moderator
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GENEVA INTERNATIONAL TV AWARD
Awarded by an international jury to the best programme presented in the
Television Competition. Prize: 5,000 Swiss francs
Africa- The continent that Overslept, by Poul-Erik Heilbuth and Hans Bulow,
presented by Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR, Danemark), 59',o.v.,French
subtitles, 1997 A punching portrait of Africa, made by young Africans. The
film takes a controversial look at the last underdeveloped region in the
world still stuck in poverty, illness, corruption, clan struggles and
dictatorship, in a continent full of missed opportunities.
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And in 1997, here are the African films that won awards:
Pierre-Alain Donnier Award
Ghetto Diaries- Across the Divide (Episode 3), by Mail and Guardian
Television, presented by SABC 1 (South Africa), 24 minutes, original
version, English subtitles The third episode of Ghetto Diaries-Across the
Divide documents the life of Lucky Mnceke, a migrant gold mine worker. His
wife Nombasa, who lives in a rural area in the Transkei region, learns to
use a video camera to document their seperate lives - the result is an
eloquent picture of the social cost of migrant labour in South African
society.
South-North Award
Ghetto Diaries-Across the Divide (Episode 3), by Mail and Guardian
Television, presented by SABC 1 (South Africa), 24 minutes, original
version, English subtitles
Honorable Mention
Y a pas de probleme, by Laurence Gavron, presented by Ex Nihilo (France), 66
minutes, in French Based on interviews with African filmmakers, producers
and actors as well as extracts of films, Y a pas de probleme examines the
state of African cinema in 1995 from an economic and artistic point of view.
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