Have You Heard from Johannesburg, a film by Connie Field.When this summer’s World Cup kicks off in Johannesburg in June, the world’s eyes will be fixed on South Africa once again—but this will be the “new” South Africa, the so-called Rainbow Nation that’s emerged in the two decades since Nelson Mandela walked out of prison in 1990. But just how far under the surface is the old South Africa when, as the novelist Damon Galgut has written, “The past has only just happened. It’s not past yet”? Well, if context is what you’re looking for, a new seven-part, eight-and-a-half-hour documentary, Have You Heard from Johannesburg, opening this Wednesday at New York’s Film Forum, gives you just that—and some. Filmmaker Connie Field (Freedom on My Mind, Forever Activists, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter) has produced a staggering, panoramic film-history of...
- 4/14/2010
- Vanity Fair
From the email I received:
Connie Field is the director of some of the most exciting, politically potent documentaries of our time: The Life And Times Of Rosie The Riveter and Freedom On My Mind. Her new film is nothing less than the definitive cinematic history of the worldwide effort to destroy South African apartheid.
Working over 10 years, filming throughout the world, interviewing dozens of the major players – Field constructs a brilliant, epic 7-film history that will stand as the final word on how a violent, racist, intractable government was destroyed by the concerted efforts of men and women working on multiple fronts inside and outside South Africa for more than three decades. This formidable accomplishment is anything but dry and academic: It’s a lively, tension-filled, heart-rending and ultimately thrilling journey.
I’ve actually never seen Have You Heard From Johannesburg. But I’m going to rectify that! If you’re in New York,...
Connie Field is the director of some of the most exciting, politically potent documentaries of our time: The Life And Times Of Rosie The Riveter and Freedom On My Mind. Her new film is nothing less than the definitive cinematic history of the worldwide effort to destroy South African apartheid.
Working over 10 years, filming throughout the world, interviewing dozens of the major players – Field constructs a brilliant, epic 7-film history that will stand as the final word on how a violent, racist, intractable government was destroyed by the concerted efforts of men and women working on multiple fronts inside and outside South Africa for more than three decades. This formidable accomplishment is anything but dry and academic: It’s a lively, tension-filled, heart-rending and ultimately thrilling journey.
I’ve actually never seen Have You Heard From Johannesburg. But I’m going to rectify that! If you’re in New York,...
- 4/4/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Opening in theaters this month this month amid a flurry of festivals are some noteworthy docs. Connie Field's Have You Heard from Johannesburg, a sprawling, seven-part, ten-years-in-the-making series about the history of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, comes to Film Form in New York. The project is a counterpart, of sorts, to the monumental Eyes on the Prize, Blackside's definitive series on the American Civil Rights Movement, which Field herself explored in her 1994 Academy Award-nominated film Freedom on my Mind.
Also coming to the big screen are Michel ...
Also coming to the big screen are Michel ...
- 4/1/2010
- by twhite
- International Documentary Association
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