The Nest Collective – the Kenya-based creative team behind the critically-acclaimed 2015 queer anthology feature, “Stories of Our Lives” – presents its follow-up to that project, this time a web series titled “Tuko Macho,” created and produced in partnership with Forum… Continue Reading →...
- 10/27/2016
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
While we eat “doubles” we talk one on one with selected filmmakers…
Great to be back for my fourth year at the Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival.
Jamaicans going to watch Jamaican shorts. Photo by actor director Tony Hendricks
My first night, I went with my new favorite delegation, whom I already wrote about in my Tiff It’s a Wrap blog, the group of Jamaican filmmakers to see their five shorts showing here at ttff as part of the Jafta Propella initiative to put money into the production and distribution of shorts (rather than in yet-another film festival). The range of stories and storytelling styles was a tasting menu of hors d’oevres for the festival.
Great to be back for my fourth year at the Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival.
Jamaicans going to watch Jamaican shorts. Photo by actor director Tony Hendricks
My first night, I went with my new favorite delegation, whom I already wrote about in my Tiff It’s a Wrap blog, the group of Jamaican filmmakers to see their five shorts showing here at ttff as part of the Jafta Propella initiative to put money into the production and distribution of shorts (rather than in yet-another film festival). The range of stories and storytelling styles was a tasting menu of hors d’oevres for the festival.
- 9/29/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
"Stories of Our Lives" screens today, April 24, at 2pm, at the New Voices in Black Cinema Festival at BAMCinematek in Brooklyn, NYC. The critically-acclaimed Kenya-South Africa co-production directed by Jim Chuchu is a creation of the members of The Nest Collective, a Nairobi-based arts initiative. It is an anthology of 5 short films dramatizing true stories of Lgbt life in Kenya. The film won a Jury Prize at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and came second in the Panorama Audience Award. It will be preceded by Ghanaian-American artist, Blitz the Ambassador's short film "Diasporadical Trilogia" filmed in three locations:...
- 4/24/2016
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
"Stories of Our Lives' is set to screen at the upcoming New Voices in Black Cinema Festival, which runs April 21 to 24 at BAMCinematek in Brooklyn, NYC. The critically-acclaimed Kenya-South Africa co-production directed by Jim Chuchu will screen on Sunday, April 24 at 2pm. Created by the members of The Nest Collective, a Nairobi-based arts initiative, the film is an anthology of 5 short films dramatizing true stories of Lgbt life in Kenya. The film won a Jury Prize at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and came second in the Panorama Audience Award. For tickets (which are now on sale) and other info about the film and the festival,...
- 4/15/2016
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
"Stories of Our Lives' is screening at the ongoing Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles. It next screens today, Thursday, Feb 11 at 6:25pm and tomorrow, Friday, Feb 12 at 3:40p. For ticket info visit: paff.org/films/stories_of_our_lives/. *** “If we are not Africans, what are we?” It’s the question that lies at the core of “Stories of Our Lives”, the anthology film presented by the collective known as The Nest. Based on an archive of true stories from the Lgbti community in Kenya, the film is broken down into several black & white vignettes, ably filmed, and beautifully acted. With the names of those involved withheld to protect them from possible retribution, the...
- 2/11/2016
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
Take One Action Film Festival | Onwards And Outwards | Encounters Festival | Abandon Normal Devices
For people who want to make a difference but aren’t sure where to start, it’s hard to think of a better destination than Take One Action festival. The bulk of it is up-to-date documentaries on hot-button issues, followed by panel discussions, Q&As and pointers on what to do next. Topics covered include global inequality (The Price We Pay, The Divide), climate change (This Changes Everything), creative and sexual freedom (Shield & Spear, Stories Of Our Lives), fair pay (Food Chains) and much more.
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For people who want to make a difference but aren’t sure where to start, it’s hard to think of a better destination than Take One Action festival. The bulk of it is up-to-date documentaries on hot-button issues, followed by panel discussions, Q&As and pointers on what to do next. Topics covered include global inequality (The Price We Pay, The Divide), climate change (This Changes Everything), creative and sexual freedom (Shield & Spear, Stories Of Our Lives), fair pay (Food Chains) and much more.
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- 9/11/2015
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Asif Kapadia’s Amy, Anna Muylaert’s The Second Mother, Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu, John Maclean’s Slow West and Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood are among the fiction and documentary line-up.
The fiction selections are: Chus Gutiérrez’s Ciudad Deliro (Colombia); Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court (India); Miguel Llansó’s Crumbs (Ethiopia-Spain); Girlhood (France), Mario Crespo’s Gone With The River (Venezuela); Ana V. Bojórquez, Lucía Carreras’ The Greatest House In The World (Guatemala-Mexico); Alonso Ruizpalacios’ Güeros (Mexico); Rebecca Johnson’s Honeytrap (UK); Shonali Bose’s Margarita, With A Straw (India); Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s My Friend Victoria (France); and Carolina Borrero, Pinky Mon, Luis Franco, Abner Benaim and Pituka Ortega Heilbron’s Panama Canal Stories (Panama).
The section continues with: Nagesh Kukunoor’s Rainbow (India); Debbie Tucker Green’s Second Coming (UK); The Second Mother (Brazil, pictured); Walter Tournier’s Selkirk, The Real Robinson Crusoe (Uruguay-Argentina-Chile-Spain); John Maclean’s Slow West (UK-New Zealand); Jim Chuchu’s Stories Of Our Lives (Kenya-South...
The fiction selections are: Chus Gutiérrez’s Ciudad Deliro (Colombia); Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court (India); Miguel Llansó’s Crumbs (Ethiopia-Spain); Girlhood (France), Mario Crespo’s Gone With The River (Venezuela); Ana V. Bojórquez, Lucía Carreras’ The Greatest House In The World (Guatemala-Mexico); Alonso Ruizpalacios’ Güeros (Mexico); Rebecca Johnson’s Honeytrap (UK); Shonali Bose’s Margarita, With A Straw (India); Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s My Friend Victoria (France); and Carolina Borrero, Pinky Mon, Luis Franco, Abner Benaim and Pituka Ortega Heilbron’s Panama Canal Stories (Panama).
The section continues with: Nagesh Kukunoor’s Rainbow (India); Debbie Tucker Green’s Second Coming (UK); The Second Mother (Brazil, pictured); Walter Tournier’s Selkirk, The Real Robinson Crusoe (Uruguay-Argentina-Chile-Spain); John Maclean’s Slow West (UK-New Zealand); Jim Chuchu’s Stories Of Our Lives (Kenya-South...
- 8/19/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Harlem International Film Festival (Hi) announces its 10th Anniversary September 9-13 co-sponsored by the Harlem Community Development Corporation and featuring Mist Harlem as its primary 2015 theatrical venue. Opening this year's edition, on Wednesday, September 9 at 7 Pm is the award-winning "Stories of Our Lives" (the 2015 Berlinale Teddy Special Jury Award winner), the anthology film which dramatizes 5 true stories of Lgbt life in Kenya, presented by the collective known as The Nest. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and a VIP after-party hosted by The Cecil. And...
- 8/13/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Parvez Sharma’s pilgrimmage to Mecca shot on an iPhone picked up a prize as the Lgbt festival in Los Angeles came to a close on Sunday night.
2015 Outfest ran from July 9-19 and closed with François Ozon’s The New Girlfriend.
Audience Awards
Dramatic Feature
Fourth Man Out, dir Andrew Nackman
Documentary Feature
The Glamour And The Squalor, dir Marq Evans
First Us Dramatic Feature
Those People, dir Joey Kuhn
Documentary Short
A Place In The Middle, dir Dean Hamer
Dramatic Short
The Letter, dir Angeles Cruz
Grand Jury Awards
Citations appear below as formulated by the juries
Documentary Feature Special Recognition
For Excellence in Filmmaking we award a Special Jury mention to Tchindas, a masterfully crafted intimate portrait of the courageous Cape Verdian trans community
Documentary Feature Winner
We award Best Documentary Feature to A Sinner In Mecca for gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma’s daring iPhone journey of acceptance into the heart of Islam.
Actor...
2015 Outfest ran from July 9-19 and closed with François Ozon’s The New Girlfriend.
Audience Awards
Dramatic Feature
Fourth Man Out, dir Andrew Nackman
Documentary Feature
The Glamour And The Squalor, dir Marq Evans
First Us Dramatic Feature
Those People, dir Joey Kuhn
Documentary Short
A Place In The Middle, dir Dean Hamer
Dramatic Short
The Letter, dir Angeles Cruz
Grand Jury Awards
Citations appear below as formulated by the juries
Documentary Feature Special Recognition
For Excellence in Filmmaking we award a Special Jury mention to Tchindas, a masterfully crafted intimate portrait of the courageous Cape Verdian trans community
Documentary Feature Winner
We award Best Documentary Feature to A Sinner In Mecca for gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma’s daring iPhone journey of acceptance into the heart of Islam.
Actor...
- 7/19/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Following a 10-day program of 180 Lgbtq films from 33 countries, Frameline's 39th edition came to an end Sunday night in San Francisco. Toh! reveals the exclusive list of festival winners, feted at the Oasis Nightclub & Cabaret. Big winners include Chilean coming-out drama "In the Grayscale" (well-reviewed on the circuit) and kidnapping documentary "The Amina Profile," which earned Sundance buzz. Earlier in the fest, the career-honoring Frameline Film Fest award went to doc-maker Jeffrey Schwarz, whose "Tab Hunter Confidential" screened for Frameline audiences (it will play Outfest in La this Summer). Juried Awards: Outstanding First Feature Award: "In the Grayscale," directed by Claudio Marcone. Honorable mention: "Stories of Our Lives," directed by Jim Chuchu. Outstanding Documentary: "Alex & Ali," directed by Malachi Leopold. Honorable mention: "The Amina Profile" directed by Sophie...
- 6/29/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
"Stories of Our Lives," which dramatizes 5 true stories of Lgbt life in Kenya, screens tonight, at 9pm, and Monday May 11 at 4pm, at the New York African Film Festival. Ticket info here: http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/stories-of-our-lives “If we are not Africans, what are we?” It’s the question that lies at the core of “Stories of Our Lives”, the anthology film presented by the collective known as The Nest. Based on an archive of true stories from the Lgbti community in Kenya, the film is broken down into several black & white vignettes, ably filmed, and beautifully acted. With the names of those involved withheld to protect them from possible retribution,...
- 5/8/2015
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
Award season as come to a close, and we’ve all been witness to what is a historic unprecedented run for one urgent film. The ripple became a wave when we were on hand to witness Laura Poitras collect multiple awards at the Cinema Eye Honors, and as predicted, the Academy Awards capped off a historic awards season run with an Oscar win. Here is our roundup and recap of the previous month’s film festival and award season headlines related to the docu film world.
Academy Awards
While Citizenfour took home the award for best documentary of the year, Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry’s Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 was given the Oscar for best short doc.
Berlin International Film Festival - Germany – February 5th – February 15th
When Darren Aronofsky and his presiding jury members announced the Berlinale winners, Patricio Guzmán’s long awaited follow-up to Nostalgia For The Light,...
Academy Awards
While Citizenfour took home the award for best documentary of the year, Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry’s Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 was given the Oscar for best short doc.
Berlin International Film Festival - Germany – February 5th – February 15th
When Darren Aronofsky and his presiding jury members announced the Berlinale winners, Patricio Guzmán’s long awaited follow-up to Nostalgia For The Light,...
- 3/3/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Outfest top brass have announced the line-up for the 2015 Outfest Fusion Lgbt People Of Color Film Festival.
The 12th year of the event will run from March 13-14 in Hollywood and kicks off with a screening of an upcoming episode of Empire followed by a Q&A with the producers, prior to a screening of a restored version of Paris Is Burning.
The line-up includes Dear White People (pictured), the world premiere of Ascendance: Angels Of Change, rom-com Eat With Me and the Us premiere of Stories Of Our Lives, the Kenyan film that just played in Berlin.
Film-maker Rose Troche will receive the 2015 Fusion Achievement Award from the stars of The L Word prior to the Fusion Gala Short Films on March 14.
“It was a joy to curate 2015 Outfest Fusion in my new role,” said Outfest director of programming Lucy Mukerjee-Brown. “This year’s films are about telling your truth – a theme that runs through our entire...
The 12th year of the event will run from March 13-14 in Hollywood and kicks off with a screening of an upcoming episode of Empire followed by a Q&A with the producers, prior to a screening of a restored version of Paris Is Burning.
The line-up includes Dear White People (pictured), the world premiere of Ascendance: Angels Of Change, rom-com Eat With Me and the Us premiere of Stories Of Our Lives, the Kenyan film that just played in Berlin.
Film-maker Rose Troche will receive the 2015 Fusion Achievement Award from the stars of The L Word prior to the Fusion Gala Short Films on March 14.
“It was a joy to curate 2015 Outfest Fusion in my new role,” said Outfest director of programming Lucy Mukerjee-Brown. “This year’s films are about telling your truth – a theme that runs through our entire...
- 2/26/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Golden Bear Winner – “Taxi" by Jafar Panahi. This is funny, subtly political and a pleasure to watch. Panahi’s niece steals the show but other passengers in Panahi’s taxi are also engaging and mysterious as they reveal ever so little, which is still a lot, of their lives during their ride. The job of driving a taxi, a job he took to stay attached within society even though he is not allowed to make movies, gives Panahi a perfect setting for being filmed and for meeting people who represent Iran today. How fitting it was that on my ride home from the airport after Berlin, my Iranian cabdriver knew all the films of Panahi. We had a talk worthy of “Taxi." Isa: Celluloid Dreams. Kino Lorber has U.S. Rights, Memento who distributed the Iranian Golden Bear and Academy Award winner “A Separation” for France has picked up French rights; Filmladen picked up Austria, Imovision has Brazil, Film Europe Med has Czech Republic; Golden Scene has Hong Kong.
Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear) – “The Club" by Pablo Larraín. Isa: Funny Balloons. U.S. still available!! Network Releasing picked up U.K. and Wild Bunch picked up France before its screening in Berlin. It has sold to Imovision for Brazil, Angel for Denmark and Alambique for Portugal.
Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) – “ Ixcanul Volcano” by Jayro Bustamante, perhaps Guatamala’s only Silver Bear winning film, this critically acclaimed coproduction with France’s Tu Va Voir showed only once before as a Work in Progress; no advance screeners were sent out by its Isa Film Factory who is now negotiating U.S. It was acquired by Arp days before Berlin. After its screening it was acquired by Andrea Occhipinti’s Lucky Red for Italy and Japan’s Gaga Communications. Cineart bought Benelux: Vision Sudest has rights to Switzerland, Vendetta acquired Australia/ New Zealand, Spentzos acquired Greece, Mediavision Turkey, Dexin former-Yugoslavia and Moving Turtle the Middle East.
Silver Bear for Best Director
Radu Jude for “Aferim!” Isa: Beta. All rights still available! Małgorzata Szumowska for “Body” A female directed story of healing in Poland today told as intertwined stories of a criminal prosecutor, his anorexic daughter and her therapist who claims she can communicate with the dead loved ones. Isa: Memento. All rights still available! Silver Bear for Best Actress - Charlotte Rampling for “45 Years”. Isa: The Match Factory. U.S. Sundance Selects, Canada--Skeye, Germany--The Match Factory, Benelux -Abc - Cinemien, U.K. -Curzon Film Wor and Artificial Eye.
Silver Bear for Best Actor – Tom Courtenay for “ 45 Years”
Silver Bear for Best Script – Patricio Guzmán for “The Pearl Button”Isa: Pyramide sold to trigon for Switzerland. U.S. still available! Continuing Patricio Guzmán’s theme of remembrance, this documentary ties together Chile’s natives population’s disappearance with the disappearance of family, friends and strangers during the Pinochet dictatorship in a surprising metaphor of water and The Button.
Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography
Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for “ Victoria”. All shot in one take! Isa: The Match Factory. U.S.: Adopt Films, Germany – Senator.
Sergey Mikhalchuk and Evgeniy Privin for “ Under Electric Clouds” Isa: Films Boutique. U.S. available! Best First Feature Award – “600 Miles” by Gabriel Ripstein.Isa: Ndm. U.S. still available! Sold to Brazil--Tucumán Distrib, Serbia--Mcf Megacom Fil, Thailand-- Coral Culture C
Panorama Audience Award[20]
1st Place: “ The Second Mother ” by Anna Muylaert Isa: The Match Factory. U.S. Oscilloscope . Soda picked up U.K. and Canada. It had its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where stars Regina Case and Camila Mardila won the Special Jury Award for Acting. Read our review Here
2nd Place: “Stories of Our Lives” by Jim Chuchu. A collection of five vignettes about Kenya's Lgbt community. Bannes in Kenya. All rights available! 3rd Place: “Tough Love” by Rosa von Praunheim. Isa: M-appeal. U.S. available. France: Arte, Germany: Missing films. Teddy Award : “Nasty Baby “ bySebastián Silva. Isa: Funny Balloons. North American rights acquired by The Orchard.
Fipresci Prize [22]
Competiton: “Taxi” by Jafar Panahi Panorama: A Minor Leap Down by Hamed Rajabi For other titles from the Berlinale still available, see Indiewire’s
Memo to Distributors: Buy these 2015 Berlin International Film Festival movies...
Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear) – “The Club" by Pablo Larraín. Isa: Funny Balloons. U.S. still available!! Network Releasing picked up U.K. and Wild Bunch picked up France before its screening in Berlin. It has sold to Imovision for Brazil, Angel for Denmark and Alambique for Portugal.
Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) – “ Ixcanul Volcano” by Jayro Bustamante, perhaps Guatamala’s only Silver Bear winning film, this critically acclaimed coproduction with France’s Tu Va Voir showed only once before as a Work in Progress; no advance screeners were sent out by its Isa Film Factory who is now negotiating U.S. It was acquired by Arp days before Berlin. After its screening it was acquired by Andrea Occhipinti’s Lucky Red for Italy and Japan’s Gaga Communications. Cineart bought Benelux: Vision Sudest has rights to Switzerland, Vendetta acquired Australia/ New Zealand, Spentzos acquired Greece, Mediavision Turkey, Dexin former-Yugoslavia and Moving Turtle the Middle East.
Silver Bear for Best Director
Radu Jude for “Aferim!” Isa: Beta. All rights still available! Małgorzata Szumowska for “Body” A female directed story of healing in Poland today told as intertwined stories of a criminal prosecutor, his anorexic daughter and her therapist who claims she can communicate with the dead loved ones. Isa: Memento. All rights still available! Silver Bear for Best Actress - Charlotte Rampling for “45 Years”. Isa: The Match Factory. U.S. Sundance Selects, Canada--Skeye, Germany--The Match Factory, Benelux -Abc - Cinemien, U.K. -Curzon Film Wor and Artificial Eye.
Silver Bear for Best Actor – Tom Courtenay for “ 45 Years”
Silver Bear for Best Script – Patricio Guzmán for “The Pearl Button”Isa: Pyramide sold to trigon for Switzerland. U.S. still available! Continuing Patricio Guzmán’s theme of remembrance, this documentary ties together Chile’s natives population’s disappearance with the disappearance of family, friends and strangers during the Pinochet dictatorship in a surprising metaphor of water and The Button.
Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography
Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for “ Victoria”. All shot in one take! Isa: The Match Factory. U.S.: Adopt Films, Germany – Senator.
Sergey Mikhalchuk and Evgeniy Privin for “ Under Electric Clouds” Isa: Films Boutique. U.S. available! Best First Feature Award – “600 Miles” by Gabriel Ripstein.Isa: Ndm. U.S. still available! Sold to Brazil--Tucumán Distrib, Serbia--Mcf Megacom Fil, Thailand-- Coral Culture C
Panorama Audience Award[20]
1st Place: “ The Second Mother ” by Anna Muylaert Isa: The Match Factory. U.S. Oscilloscope . Soda picked up U.K. and Canada. It had its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where stars Regina Case and Camila Mardila won the Special Jury Award for Acting. Read our review Here
2nd Place: “Stories of Our Lives” by Jim Chuchu. A collection of five vignettes about Kenya's Lgbt community. Bannes in Kenya. All rights available! 3rd Place: “Tough Love” by Rosa von Praunheim. Isa: M-appeal. U.S. available. France: Arte, Germany: Missing films. Teddy Award : “Nasty Baby “ bySebastián Silva. Isa: Funny Balloons. North American rights acquired by The Orchard.
Fipresci Prize [22]
Competiton: “Taxi” by Jafar Panahi Panorama: A Minor Leap Down by Hamed Rajabi For other titles from the Berlinale still available, see Indiewire’s
Memo to Distributors: Buy these 2015 Berlin International Film Festival movies...
- 2/24/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
New films from Hal Hartley, James Franco, Gus Van Sant among lineup.
Eighteen features - including seven documentaries - have been selected for the Berlinale’s Panorama programme.
Among the selection are new films from Hal Hartley, Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Jk Youn and The Yes Men.
Hartley concludes his filmic trilogy with Ned Rifle while Justin Kelly’s Gus Van Sant-produced debut I Am Michael stars James Franco as a gay activist in the 1980s.
54: The Director’s Cut
USA
By Mark Christopher
With Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, Sela Ward, Mark Ruffalo
World premiere
Chorus
Canada
By François Delisle
With Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Pierre Curzi, Geneviève Bujold
European premiere
Der letzte Sommer der Reichen (The Last Summer of the Rich)
Austria
By Peter Kern
With Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder
World premiere
Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents)
Switzerland / Germany
By Stina Werenfels...
Eighteen features - including seven documentaries - have been selected for the Berlinale’s Panorama programme.
Among the selection are new films from Hal Hartley, Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Jk Youn and The Yes Men.
Hartley concludes his filmic trilogy with Ned Rifle while Justin Kelly’s Gus Van Sant-produced debut I Am Michael stars James Franco as a gay activist in the 1980s.
54: The Director’s Cut
USA
By Mark Christopher
With Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, Sela Ward, Mark Ruffalo
World premiere
Chorus
Canada
By François Delisle
With Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Pierre Curzi, Geneviève Bujold
European premiere
Der letzte Sommer der Reichen (The Last Summer of the Rich)
Austria
By Peter Kern
With Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder
World premiere
Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents)
Switzerland / Germany
By Stina Werenfels...
- 12/16/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Africa is one of the worst places in the world to be openly gay. Homosexuality is a crime in at least 36 countries on the continent, forcing Lgbtq individuals to form communities in the shadows. London-based The Nest Collective's Toronto documentary "Stories of Our Lives" is an attempt to bring those voices to light. But the Kenya Film Classification Board has barred the film from ever being seen in the country, where homosexuals face a potential 12 year prison sentence. The board, which regulates exhibition of film content to the public, cites that the doc "has obscenity, explicit scenes of sexual activities and it promotes homosexuality which is contrary to our national norms and values." Filmmakers Jim Chuchu, George Gachara and Njoki Ngumi plan an appeal to retract the decision, and Nest has responded: "Does the film transgress ‘national norms and values’? 'Stories Of Our Lives' is a film about people,...
- 10/10/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Stories of Our Lives deemed “contrary to Kenya’s norms and values”.
The Kenyan Film Classification board has banned a documentary about Lgbt life in Kenya for being “contrary to national norms and values”.
Stories of Our Lives, which was well-received after its Toronto debut last month, is a collection of vignettes about Kenya’s Lgbt community.
The board cites that the film “has obscenity, explicit scenes of sexual activities and it promotes homosexuality which is contrary to our national norms and values,” as reasons for the ban.
Filmmakers Jim Chuchu, George Gachara and Njoki Ngumi travelled to Toronto to present the film at Tiff.
Though originally credited as Anonymous, as homosexuality is considered a crime in Kenya and comes with a potential 12-year prison sentence, the filmmakers decided to reveal their identities while at the festival in order to broaden the conversation about gay rights in Kenya.
The filmmakers, part of the...
The Kenyan Film Classification board has banned a documentary about Lgbt life in Kenya for being “contrary to national norms and values”.
Stories of Our Lives, which was well-received after its Toronto debut last month, is a collection of vignettes about Kenya’s Lgbt community.
The board cites that the film “has obscenity, explicit scenes of sexual activities and it promotes homosexuality which is contrary to our national norms and values,” as reasons for the ban.
Filmmakers Jim Chuchu, George Gachara and Njoki Ngumi travelled to Toronto to present the film at Tiff.
Though originally credited as Anonymous, as homosexuality is considered a crime in Kenya and comes with a potential 12-year prison sentence, the filmmakers decided to reveal their identities while at the festival in order to broaden the conversation about gay rights in Kenya.
The filmmakers, part of the...
- 10/10/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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