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Cinema Of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has an active film culture that includes films made in Zimbabwe during its pre- and post-colonial periods. Economic crisis and political crisis have been features of the industry. A publication from the 1980s counted 14 cinemas in Zimbabwe's capital city, Harare. According to a 1998 report only 15 percent of the population had been to a cinema. European and American films have been made on location in Zimbabwe as well as Indian films. American films are popular in Zimbabwe but face restrictions limiting their distribution. History Great Britain's Colonial Film Unit was active in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's post-colonial government has worked to sponsor film development. Germany helped fund a film training and production program. Festivals The Zimbabwe Film Festival Zimbabwean directors include Tsitsi Dangarembga, Rumbi Katedza, Roger Hawkins (film director), Godwin Mawuru, Michael Raeburn, Farai Sevenzo, Ingrid Sinclair, Sydney Taivavashe, and Edwina Spicer. Zimbabwean acto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harare
Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan area in 2019. Situated in north-eastern Zimbabwe in the country's Mashonaland region, Harare is a metropolitan province, which also incorporates the municipalities of Chitungwiza and Epworth. The city sits on a plateau at an elevation of above sea level and its climate falls into the subtropical highland category. The city was founded in 1890 by the Pioneer Column, a small military force of the British South Africa Company, and named Fort Salisbury after the UK Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. Company administrators demarcated the city and ran it until Southern Rhodesia achieved responsible government in 1923. Salisbury was thereafter the seat of the Southern Rhodesian (later Rhodesian) government and, between 1953 and 1963, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tawanda Manyimo
Tawanda Manyimo (Born 1981) is a Zimbabwean-born New Zealand actor. Manyimo was born in Bulawayo and educated at Tennyson Primary School, and Milton High School. Manyimo left his job in logistics in Zimbabwe in 2003, and migrated to New Zealand at the age of 22. Manyimo graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 2011 with a Bachelor of Performing Arts (Acting). He lives in Titirangi. Selected filmography *'' The Rover'' (2014) *'' Ghost in the Shell'' (2017) *''The Meg ''The Meg'' is a 2018 science fiction action film directed by Jon Turteltaub with screenplay by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, and Erich Hoeber, loosely based on the 1997 book '' Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror'' by Steve Alten. The film stars Jason Sta ...'' (2018) References External links * Living people New Zealand male film actors Zimbabwean male film actors 21st-century New Zealand male actors Year of birth missing (living people) Toi Whakaari alumni {{Zimbabwe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albino (film)
''Albino'' (also known as ''The Night of the Askari'', ''Death in the Sun'' and ''Whispering Death'') is a 1976 German thriller film directed by Jürgen Goslar and starring Christopher Lee, James Faulkner and Sybil Danning filmed on location during the Rhodesian Bush War. The film is based on the novel ''The Whispering Death'' by Daniel Carney. Plot Terrick ( James Faulkner), a British South Africa Police officer in rural Rhodesia, looks forward towards the end of his police service and early retirement to his farm with his fiancée, Sally (Sybil Danning). Terrick's hopes for a peaceful life with Sally are shattered, however, when black nationalist guerrillas attack the farm. Sally is raped and murdered by the guerrilla leader, an albino known only by the moniker ''"Whispering Death"'' (Horst Frank). Consumed by grief, Terrick and his farmworkers, led by Katchemu ( Sam Williams) set out to avenge Sally on their own. They subsequently learn that the guerrillas have summoned th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shangani Patrol (film)
''Shangani Patrol'' is a war film based upon the non-fiction book ''A Time to Die'' by Robert Cary (1968), and the historical accounts of the Shangani Patrol, with Brian O'Shaughnessy as Major Allan Wilson and Will Hutchins as the lead Scout Frederick Russell Burnham. Also includes the song "Shangani Patrol" by Nick Taylor (1966 recording). Under the command of Major Wilson, the patrol tracks the fleeing Ndebele King Lobengula across the Shangani River. Cut off from the main force, they are ambushed by the Ndebele impi and, except for the few men sent as reinforcements, all are killed. Such was the bravery of the Shangani Patrol that the victorious Ndebele said, "They were men of men and their fathers were men before them." Depending on one's viewpoint, this event was one of the great mistakes and military blunders of this time in history, or the last heroic stand of a gallant few. The incident had lasting significance in England, South Africa, and Rhodesia as the equivalent o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhodesia
Rhodesia (, ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the ''de facto'' successor state to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, which had been self-governing since achieving responsible government in 1923. A landlocked nation, Rhodesia was bordered by South Africa to the south, Bechuanaland (later Botswana) to the southwest, Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) to the northwest, and Mozambique ( a Portuguese province until 1975) to the east. From 1965 to 1979, Rhodesia was one of two independent states on the African continent governed by a white minority of European descent and culture, the other being South Africa. In the late 19th century, the territory north of the Transvaal was chartered to the British South Africa Company, led by Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes and his Pioneer Column marched north in 1890, acquiring a huge block of territory that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Shiri
Oluwa Keith Shiri is a Zimbabwean film curator, who has been based in based in Beirut, Lebanon, and in London, UK. He has been an advisor to several film festivals, including London Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Dubai International Film Festival, Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou and Tampere Film Festival The Tampere Film Festival ( fi, Tampereen elokuvajuhlat) is a short film festival held every March, mostly at the Finnkino Plevna movie theatre, in Tampere, Finland. It is accredited by the film producers' society FIAPF, and together with the shor .... He is also a founding juror at the Africa Movie Academy Awards. Keith Shiri was born on April 27, 1967. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Shiri, Keith Film curators Living people Zimbabwean film people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zimbabwe International Film Festival
The Zimbabwe International Film Festival (abbreviated as ZIFF) is an annual ten-day film festival held in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and ... in August or September. Instituted in 1998, it is organised by the Zimbabwe International Film Festival Trust (ZIFFT), a non-profit organisation. The festival is a non-political competitive platform that provides a showcase of feature films, documentary films and short films, as well as providing workshops and other cultural events. References External links * Film festivals in Zimbabwe 1998 establishments in Zimbabwe Recurring events established in 1998 Annual events in Zimbabwe Festivals in Zimbabwe {{Film-festival-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Images Film Festival For Women
The International Images Film Festival for Women (''IIFF'') is an annual international film festival established in 2002 in Harare in Zimbabwe. It is the only women's film festival in sub-Saharan Africa. The Zimbabwean feminist Tsitsi Dangarembga established IIFF to celebrate the achievement of women filmmakers, as well as alter the representation of women on film. The festival is run by Dangarembga and the Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe, and is now held yearly in November, screening films in Harare, Bulawayo and Chimanimani. The 16th IIFF was held in August 2017 as a joint festival in collaboration with the 19th Zimbabwe International Film Festival. The theme of the 17th IIFF, held at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe The National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ) is a gallery in Harare, Zimbabwe, dedicated to the presentation and conservation of Zimbabwe's contemporary art and visual heritage. The original National Gallery of Rhodesia was designed and directed by ... in August 2018, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhodesian Bush War
The Rhodesian Bush War, also called the Second as well as the Zimbabwe War of Liberation, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia). The conflict pitted three forces against one another: the Rhodesian white minority-led government of Ian Smith (later the Zimbabwe-Rhodesian government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa); the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the military wing of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union; and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union. The war and its subsequent Internal Settlement, signed in 1978 by Smith and Muzorewa, led to the implementation of universal suffrage in June 1979 and the end of white minority rule in Rhodesia, which was renamed Zimbabwe Rhodesia under a black majority government. However, this new order failed to win international recognition and the war continued. Neither side achieved a military v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibongile Mlambo
Sibongile Mlambo is a Zimbabwean actress based in the United States. She is known for starring in Netflix’s ''Lost in Space (2018 TV series), Lost in Space'', the Starz historical adventure television series ''Black Sails (TV series), Black Sails'' and in films ''Honey 3: Dare to Dance, Honey 3'' and ''The Last Face''. She is also best known for her role as Tamora Monroe on the MTV television series ''Teen Wolf (2011 TV series), Teen Wolf'', as Donna on the Freeform (TV channel), Freeform television series ''Siren (TV series), Siren'', and voicing Melusi in the Ubisoft multiplayer game ''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege''. Early life Mlambo was born in Zimbabwe, and her father is a doctor. Mlambo has an older sister who is also an actress. Mlambo left Zimbabwe in 2005 to pursue her education in the United States and has lived in Texas, New York (state), New York and briefly in Spain. In 2011, Mlambo was living in South Africa, working in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Mlambo later mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kubi Indi
Kubi Chaza Indi is a Zimbabwean development activist and businesswoman. Under her maiden name, Kubi Chaza, she was an actress in the United Kingdom, appearing in '' Live and Let Die'' in 1973 as a sales clerk serving James Bond. After returning to Zimbabwe, she and actor husband John Indi started a company making beauty products. Background Indi is very active in the development community, particularly with respect to issues affecting women, and is secretary-general of the Indigenous Business Women's Organisation in Zimbabwe. The Indis have continued to work in film-making, John as an actor, but Kubi on both sides of the camera. In 1989, she produced ''I Am the Future'', a film about a young woman (played by Stella Chiweshe) who travels to the big city to escape Zimbabwe's independence war in the rural areas. In 1993, she played the eponymous heroine's modern neighbour in ''Neria'', Tsitsi Dangarembga's script about widowhood in Zimbabwe. Both films were directed by Godwin Mawu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Gray
Carole Gray (born 1938) Linked 2017-07-11 is a Southern Rhodesia-born former dancer and film actress known for her roles throughout Britain in 1960s West End musicals. Born in , , she arrived in England in 1956, and began her 12-year acting career by appearing in the television series,'' The Avengers.'' She made her first notable film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
