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Arthur Howes
Arthur Howes (15 July 1950 – 29 November 2004) was a British documentary film maker and teacher. Life Howes was born in Gibraltar on 15 July 1950, and moved to London as a teenager. He was married to Amy Hardie and had one son. He died from lung cancer in London on 29 November 2004, aged 54. Career Howes studied teaching, then film-making at the University of Westminster, Polytechnic of Central London. He went on to have a long career in documentary film-making and was particularly known for a trilogy about the Sudanese civil war. He also taught during his career at University of Essex and the London College of Communication, London College of Printing. At this time of his death he was working on a film ''Bacchanalias Bahianas 1–5'' which was left unfinished. He had worked on this film in Brazil and it focussed on beach culture in Bahia. Sudanese films *''Kafi's Story'' (1989) *''Nuba Conversations'' (2000) *''Benjamin and his Brother'' (2002) References {{DEFAULT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibraltar
Gibraltar ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory and British overseas cities, city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar). It has an area of and is Gibraltar–Spain border, bordered to the north by Spain (Campo de Gibraltar). The landscape is dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar, at the foot of which is a densely populated town area. Gibraltar is home to some 34,003 people, primarily Gibraltarians. Gibraltar was founded as a permanent watchtower by the Almohad Caliphate, Almohads in 1160. It switched control between the Nasrids, Crown of Castile, Castilians and Marinids in the Late Middle Ages, acquiring larger strategic clout upon the destruction of nearby Algeciras . It became again part of the Crown of Castile in 1462. In 1704, Anglo-Dutch forces Capture of Gibraltar, captured Gibraltar from Spain during the War of the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kafi's Story
''Kafi's Story'' is an ethnographic film about life of Nuba ethnic people in Sudan, directed by Amy Hardie and Arthur Howes. Synopsis Shot between 1986 and 1988, ''Kafi's Story'' captures scenes from the life of Nuba peoples just before they were involved in the Second Sudanese Civil War. Kafi, a young man from the Torogi village in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, is one of the first men to travel north to the capital Khartoum in search of money. Having money is the only way for him to get a dress and to marry a second wife, Tete. Ten years after this film, Arthur Howes went back to Sudan to shoot the documentary ''Nuba Conversations'', where he wanted to capture the life of Nuba peoples during the war. Festivals Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia(2000) Awards Joris Ivens Award (third place) of IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Netherlands(1989) * Documentary Award at BBC BP Expo Documentary, England (1990) * Basil Wright Prize of R.A.I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuba Conversations
''Nuba Conversations'' is a 2000 documentary film, documentary and ethnographic film directed by Arthur Howes. Synopsis Ten years after shooting Kafi's Story, British filmmaker Arthur Howes clandestinely reentered Sudan to find out what had happened to the Nuba peoples, Nuba people of Torogi. He found signs of jihad everywhere. For example, a notable television program, ''Fields of Sacrifice'', celebrated that week's casualties in the war against the Nuba and featured family members thanking Allah for taking their sons and brothers as martyrs. Much of the Nuba population was recruited by the rebel movement Sudan People's Liberation Army during the Second Sudanese Civil War. Others left their homes and now live in refugee camps. Arthur Howes brought his earlier documentary, Kafi's Story, and showed it to Nuba people living in a refugee camp in Kenya. Later on, in 2002, ''Nuba Conversations'' was presented at the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi to the parties involved in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Westminster
The University of Westminster is a public university, public university based in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1838 as the Royal Polytechnic Institution, it was the first Polytechnic (United Kingdom), polytechnic to open in London. The Polytechnic formally received a Royal charter in August 1839, and became the University of Westminster in post-1992 universities, 1992. Westminster has its main campus in Regent Street in central London, with additional campuses in Fitzrovia, Marylebone and Harrow, London, Harrow. It also operates the Westminster International University in Tashkent in Uzbekistan. The university is organised into three colleges and 12 schools, within which there are around 65 departments and centres, including the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) and the Centre for the Study of Democracy. It also has its Policy Studies Institute, Westminster Business School, Business School and Westminster Law School, Law School. The annual income of the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Essex
The University of Essex is a public university, public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, it is one of the original plate glass university, plate glass universities. The university comprises three campuses in the county, in Southend-on-Sea and Loughton with its primary campus in Wivenhoe Park, Colchester. Essex has a largely diverse student community and holds partnerships with more than 100 global higher education institutions. It was named Times Higher Education University of the Year, University of the Year at the Times Higher Education awards, ''Times Higher Education'' Awards in 2018. Essex's Department of Government received Regius Professorship conferred by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013 and the university was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize on two occasions for advancing human rights in 2009 and social and economic research in 2017. In the 2025 rankings of British universities, Essex is ranked 30th in the Complete University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London College Of Communication
The London College of Communication is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. Its origins are in education for the printing and retail industries; it now specialises in media-related subjects including advertising, animation, film, graphic design, photography and sound arts. It has approximately 5,000 students, and offers about sixty courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is organised in three schools: media, design and screen; all are housed in a single building in Elephant and Castle. It received its present name in 2004; it was previously the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts, then the London College of Printing, and briefly the London College of Printing and Distributive Trades. History The school was formed in 1990 by the merger of the College for Distributive Trades with the London College of Printing. The London College of Printing descended from the St Bride's Foundation Institute Printing School, which was est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahia
Bahia () is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro) and the 5th-largest by area. Bahia's capital is the city of Salvador, Bahia, Salvador (formerly known as "Cidade do São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos", literally "City of the Holy Savior of the Bay of All the Saints"), on a Spit (landform), spit of land separating the Bay of All Saints from the Atlantic. Once a stronghold of supporters of direct rule of Brazil by the Portuguese monarchy, and dominated by Agriculture in Brazil, agricultural, Slavery in Brazil, slaving, and ranching interests, Bahia is now a predominantly Working class, working-class industrial and agricultural state. The state is home to 7% of the Brazilian population and produces 4.2% of the country's GDP. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Documentary Film Directors
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1950 Births
Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 aboard are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur. * January 6 – The UK recognizes the People's Republic of China; the Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response. * January 7 – A fire in the St Elizabeth's Ward of Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, United States, kills 41 patients. * January 9 – The Israeli government recognizes the People's Republic of China. * January 12 – Submarine collides with Sweden, Swedish oil tanker ''Divina'' in the Thames Estuary and sinks; 64 die. * January 13 – Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Deaths
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Gibraltarian Male Writers
Gibraltarians (Spanish: ''gibraltareños'', colloquially: '' llanitos'') are an ethnic group native to Gibraltar, a British overseas territory located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. Origins Some Gibraltarians are an ethnic and cultural mixture of the many immigrants who came to the Rock of Gibraltar over 300 years. Following its capture by an Anglo-Dutch force in 1704, all but 70 of the existing inhabitants of Gibraltar elected to leave with many settling nearby. Since then, immigrants from the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Morocco, Menorca, and India have settled at Gibraltar, as have Sephardic Jews from North Africa. Genoese and Catalans (who arrived in the fleet with Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt) became the core of Gibraltar's first civilian population under Habsburg Gibraltar. Sephardi Jews from Tetouan in Morocco, who had previously been suppliers to English Tangier, began supplying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
