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| | | Netflix and Unesco search for African film-makers to 'reimagine' folktales | | by Lizzy Davies Oct 14, 2021 | | Competition opens to find six young creators in sub-Saharan Africa who will be funded to produce movies for 2022 For Nelson Mandela they were “morsels rich with the gritty essence of Africa but in many instances universal in their portrayal of humanity, beasts and the mystical.” Passed down through the generations, whispered at bedtimes and raucously retold by elders, folktales have long been a mainstay of African cultural heritage. Continue reading... | | | | | | | ear for eye review – Lashana Lynch goes head to head with structural racism | | by Peter Bradshaw Oct 14, 2021 | | The new 007 conducts an agonisingly tense interrogation in the centrepiece of a three-part cine-prose-poem about racism from debbie tucker green The new movie from debbie tucker green is a vivid hybrid artwork, combining filmed theatre, location set pieces and installation-style presentation, with a cast including Lashana Lynch (fresh from her performance as 007 in No Time to Die), Arinzé Kene and Carmen Munroe. It is about the black British experience and how it relates to American history and the larger context of empire and exploitation. This is a balletically achieved cine-prose-poem in three sections. In the first, with actors positioned on what appears to be a dark stage, a series of encounters and confrontations are laid out, sometimes along gender or generational lines, about the reality of violence and the ever-present threat from the police. A mother tells her son to stay proud but also not to be arrogant, and not to court trouble. He is understandably angry. Another young man confronts his father about the civil rights generation and its failure to defeat institutionalised racism. Munroe has a tremendous spoken aria of spiritual defiance in the face of brutality. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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