Quartier Mozart Jean-Pierre Bekolo   Saturday 20th May 2006 7:30pm - 11pm Screening of film: 8:30pm Venue: The Frontline Club 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ 020 7479-8959 Nearest tube: Edgware Road Station/ Paddington Station. Cost: £10 per person on the door.    Reservation

Based on African folklore, this film tells the gender-bending legend of a mischievous young girl who wants to know what it's like to be a boy. A good witch grants her wish, transforming the child into a young man. In this new incarnation, "he" proceeds to date the daughter of a tough cop. A delightful tale about a freewheeling suburb where anything goes, and the residents take a casual attitude towards traditional family values.

About JEAN-PIERRE BEKOLO

Jean Pierre Bekolo is a noted African film director with a unique filmmaking style which is playful and comic. He has taught his filmamking style at Duke University 2003 -present, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2001, Virginia Tech 1998. Film credits include: Quartier Mozart (1992) winner of the Cannes Film festival Prix Afrique en creation, Le Complot d'Aristote (1996), Le Grammaire de Grand-Mere (1996),
Original Sin Toronto (1998) and Les Saignantes (2005)
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About Moise Shewa

Acclaimed film Director and producer Moise Shewa has over 20 years experience in the documentary film industry. Film credits to his name are Somalia the price of peace (1994), the ground breaking documentary Black Survivors of the Holocaust (1997),  Lagos Airport (1999), History of British Humour (2002), The Strory of Soul to Soul (2004).

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About FLORENCE AYISI

Florence Ayisi is senior lecturer in film and video at the International Film School Wales, University of Wales, Newport. Film credits: 2 short films Where the Cows Go (1991) and A Red Hat (1991), Sisters in Law (2005) which was co-directed with Kim Longinotto and has won 11 awards to date. To mark International Women's Day (2005), Florence made a short film, My Mother: ISANGE. (2005).

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At a time when the fight for justice for Jewish Holocaust victims continues to make front-page news, the horrific experiences of Black people in Nazi Germany are virtually ignored. These experiences are brought to light in a documentary film entitled Hitler's Forgotten Victims, directed by David Okuefuna and produced by Moise Shewa (Afro-Wisdom Productions). The film uses interviews with survivors and their families as well as archival material to document the Black German Holocaust experience; it also explores the history of German racism, suggests links between German colonialism and Nazi policy, and examines the treatment of Black prisoners-of-war.

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