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Cinema Of Namibia
The cinema of Namibia refers to cinema in the country of Namibia, which claimed independence from South Africa in 1990. Before independence, American anthropologist John Marshall (filmmaker), John Marshall made ethnographic films of the Ju/'hoansi for over four decades from 1950 onwards, resulting in documentary films such as ''The Hunters (1957 film), The Hunters'' (1957) and ''Nǃai, the Story of a ǃKung Woman'' (1980).Apley, Alice and David Tamés. (June 2005Remembering John Marshall (1932–2005)newenglandfilm.com Retrieved 1 Aug 2008. After independence, Namibian filmmakers have started to assert their own identity. Pioneers included Bridget Pickering, Richard Pakleppa and Cecil Moller. They have been joined by a younger generation including Joel Haikali, Oshosheni Hiveluah, Perivi Katjavivi, Tim Huebschle, and Krischka Stoffels. In 2000, the Namibian government passed the Namibian Film Commission Act to promote filmmaking in the country. References Cinema of Namib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although Kazungula, it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres (660 feet) of the Botswanan right bank of the Zambezi, Zambezi River separates the two countries. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU) and the Commonwealth of Nations. The driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia has been inhabited since pre-historic times by the San people, San, Damara people, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigration, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. Since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini. It also completely enclaves the country Lesotho. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World, and the second-most populous country located entirely south of the equator, after Tanzania. South Africa is a biodiversity hotspot, with unique biomes, plant and animal life. With over 60 million people, the country is the world's 24th-most populous nation and covers an area of . South Africa has three capital cities, with the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government based in Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town respectively. The largest city is Johannesburg. About 80% of the population are Black South Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Marshall (filmmaker)
John Kennedy Marshall (November 12, 1932 – April 22, 2005) was an American anthropologist and acclaimed documentary filmmaker best known for his work in Namibia recording the lives of the Juǀʼhoansi (also called the !Kung Bushmen). Background Marshall was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Lorna Marshall and Laurence Kennedy Marshall and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Peterborough, New Hampshire. His sister, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, is a writer. Marshall had one daughter, Sonya. He married Dr. Alexandra Eliot, who had two sons from a previous marriage, Frederick and Christopher Eliot. Marshall held a B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology from Harvard University. Marshall died of lung cancer in April 2005. Career Marshall first traveled to the Kalahari Desert and met the Juǀʼhoansi of the Nyae Nyae area in 1950 on a trip initiated by his father to search for the "Lost World of the Kalahari." Before his second trip to the Kalahari, one year later, Marshall received a 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hunters (1957 Film)
''The Hunters'' is a 1957 ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia. The footage was shot by John Marshall during a Smithsonian- Harvard Peabody sponsored expedition in 1952–53. In addition to the giraffe hunt, the film shows other aspects of !Kung life at that time, including family relationships, socializing and storytelling, and the hard work of gathering plant foods and hunting for small game. The film was produced at the Film Study Center of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University by John Marshall in collaboration with Robert Gardner. It won the Robert J. Flaherty Award for best one-off documentary from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1958, and was named to the US National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress in 2003 for its "cultural, aesthetic, or historical significance". ''The Hunters'' was preserved in 2000 with a grant from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nǃai, The Story Of A ǃKung Woman
''Nǃai, the Story of a ǃKung Woman'' is a documentary film by ethnographic filmmaker John Marshall. The film was first broadcast in 1980 as part of the Odyssey series on PBS and is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources. It provides a broad overview of Juǀʼhoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of Nǃai, a Juǀʼhoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. Nǃai (born 1945) tells her own story, and in so doing, the story of Juǀʼhoan life. Her name is pronounced , with a nasal alveolar click. The film Marshall compiled the footage of Nǃai over the course of 27 years. Marshall shot over 353,000 feet of color film during his expeditions into the Nyae-Nyae region. The footage of Nǃai as a young girl, including her wedding ceremonies, was recorded in 1951. "Before the white people came we did what we wanted," Nǃai recalls, describing the life she remembers as a child: following her mother to pick berries, roots, and nuts as the season cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Pickering
Bridget Pickering (born 1966) is a film maker and producer from Namibia. Among other projects, she was an executive producer on the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda.Arevalo, Rica (13 March 2010)Producer notes great strides of women in cinema ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' She is the daughter of Namibian diplomat and trade unionist, Advocate Arthur Pickering. She attended college at Syracuse University in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ... and worked for Universal Pictures before returning to Namibia.McCluskey, Audrey TThe devil you dance with: film culture in the new South Africa(2009) () Her father is Namibian and her mother from South Africa. In 1999, she was one of six women chosen to direct a short film for the ''Mama Africa'' series. Her contribution, ''U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Pakleppa
Richard Pakleppa (born 1961) is a white Namibian screenwriter, film director and film producer. Pakleppa studied philosophy and theatre in Munich, Germany and gained a Honours Degree in African studies from the University of Cape Town. Since 1990, he has directed and produced documentary and fiction films across Southern Africa. He currently lives in South Africa. Encounters South African International Documentary Festival
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Cecil Moller
Cecil Moller (born 1967) is a Namibian film director and producer. Biography Moller was born in Namibia in 1967 and came to the United States to study art. Interested in magical realism, he received his bachelor's degree in communications from Ramapo College. Moller worked as a sound engineer, cinematographer and editor for several productions before directing his own films. He made his film directing debut with ''No Plot'' in 1991. It was the first of several feature films he made in the 1990s. In 2000, the Namibian Film Commission Act was passed to promote local film directors such as Moller. In 2001, Moller explored the lives of prostitutes in Walvis Bay dependent on seasonal shipping trawlers in his award-winning short film ''House of Love''. He wanted to figure out why these women, some of whom he knew from school, had become sex workers. From 2004 to 2007, he served as chairman of the Namibian Film Commission. Moller estimated the Namibia was missing out on 50 percent of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Haikali
Joel Haikali is a Namibian director, film producer and writer. He released his first feature film ''My Father's Son'' in 2011. He has also produced several short films, including ''Differences'' (2008), ''African Cowboy'' (2011) and ''Try'' (2012). The aforementioned shorts films were screened at the Alliance Française in Swakopmund. Haikali chairs the Namibia Film Commission. Career Joe Haikali is a Namibian filmmaker and has a production company called Joe Vision Production. In 2007, he attended the Pan-African Film Festival in order to make connections and network on behalf of himself and other Namibian filmmakers. His first feature film ''My Father's Son'' was released in 2011. Its narrative features dialogue in Oshiwambo, Afrikaans and English. The film's cast includes Panduleni Hailundu, Patrick Hainghono and Senga Brockerhoff. AfricAvenir and Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre (FNCC) teamed up to screen ''My Father's Son'' in September 2015, at the latter's venue in Windhoek. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oshosheni Hiveluah
Oshosheni Hiveluah (22 October 1981 – 10 October 2019) was a Namibian writer, producer, and director. She is best known for the films ''Tjitji the Himba Girl'' and ''100 Bucks.'' Early life and education Oshosheni was born in Luanda, Angola on the 22 October 1981 to Ulitala Monnica Nameuja and Tuli Hiveluah and was sent to Germany , the former GDR when she was three years old. Her family returned to Namibia post-independence. Oshosheni completed her secondary school education at the Deutsche Höhere Privatschule in Namibia. She attended the CityVarsity Multi Media School in Cape Town. Oshosheni also studied advanced TV documentary filmmaking under the Fulbright Alumni at the Namibia University of Science and Technology. Career Oshosheni's career began with her debut student film ''Tulila's Fate'' which won the audience choice award at the Wild Cinema Film Festival in 2004. She founded the Shooting Stars Agency in 2010 and the Windhoek/Harare–based company Digital Afros. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perivi Katjavivi
Perivi John Katjavivi, is a Namibian-British filmmaker. He has made several critically acclaimed films including ''Eembwiti'', ''The Unseen'' and ''Film Festival Film''. Apart from direction, he is also a producer, writer, camera operator, actor, cinematographer and editor. Personal life Katjavivi was born in Oxford, England and has with five siblings. His father Peter Katjavivi is a Namibian politician and diplomat, the speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia, his mother is Briton Jane Katjavivi. Katjavivi grew up in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. He studied film at Columbia College in Los Angeles where he obtained a BA. He holds an MA in African Cinema from the University of Cape Town. He is currently a PhD candidate in Visual History at the University of the Western Cape. Career In 2016, Katjavivi made his maiden feature film ''The Unseen''. The film was screened at several film festivals including Busan, in competition at Durban. The film won the award for the Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |