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About: North-South Media Encounters Prize List

Thu, 23 Jul 1998 07:49:45 -0700 (PDT)

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    Originally dated: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 07:49:45 -0700 (PDT)

    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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