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Download the Digital Press DIGITAL PRESSKIT To Repel Ghosts: Urban Tales from the African Continent ABOUT THE SHORT FILMS African Metropolis: Homecoming Written & Directed by Jim Chuchu Producers: Rebecca Chandler, Wanuri Kahui, Idil Ibrahim Executive Producer: Steven Markovitz Running Time: 10:30 min Language: English / Kiswahili; Subtitles: English Fantasy, science fiction and infatuation fuse as an obsessed neighbour invents ever-stranger scenarios for wooing the girl of his dreams. Nothing is what it seems as Max – a nerdy voyeur - turns fiction into truth and the mundane into the unexpected in his quest to get the attention of Alina - the girl next door. The city of Nairobi is threatened with imminent extinction, and now is his chance to save her and verbalize his unspoken desire. However, a mysterious stranger stands in the way of his happiness. Will Max overcome his fear and save the girl? Is Alina looking for a hero? A quirky, light-hearted look at obsession and the desire to be seen. Writer/Director – Jim Chuchu Image © Andrew Mungai Chuchu, based in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, is a creative all-rounder, photographer, director, musician, and video artist. Chuchu’s former band, Just A Band, was part of an art collective, and for them he co-directed what became known as "Kenya's first viral internet meme" starring the irrepressible Makmende. His current projects include a new album and a photography book set in post-apocalyptic Africa. Producer – Wanuri Kahui In 2008, Wanuri completed her first feature film From A Whisper based on the real life events surrounding the August 7, twin bombings of US Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998. The film recently won awards at the Africa Movie Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Picture, the Golden Dhow award for Best East African Picture at Zanzibar International Film Festival and Best Film at Kalasha, Kenya Film and TV awards. Shortly after she completed a documentary about the life of Nobel peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai entitled For Our Land (2009) for M-Net ‘Great Africans’ Series. She has recently completed a short Science Fiction Film Pumzi (2009) that was partially funded by Focus Features (part of NBC universal), Goethe Institut and Changa Moto Fund in Kenya. Pumzi recently won Best Short at Cannes Independent Film Festival, May 2010 and took Silver at Carthage Film Festival Tunisia, October 2010. Producer – Idil Ibrahim A New York-based filmmaker, Idil has lived and worked extensively in East Africa. Recently, she directed the ‘Making Of’ documentary for the feature film Fishing Without Nets, filmed in Kenya, and based on the short film with the same title that won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Idil served as Associate Producer on the film Laredo, Texas, which was also an official selection of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. She had a producing role on the film Trece Años, which also selected for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, as well as the Aspen Shortsfest, GenArt, Los Angeles International and Ashland Independent Film Festivals. Trece Años was also featured at Pangaea Day, a global multimedia event simultaneously aired and broadcast in locations around the globe such as Kigali, Cairo, London, Rio de Janeiro and New York with the mission and purpose to decrease divisions and create change and global unity through the power of film. Idil was selected to participate in the Tribeca All Access program at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival African Metropolis: Berea Directed by Vincent Moloi Producer: Makgano Mamabolo Writers: Makgano Mamabolo, Lodi Matsetela Executive Producer: Steven Markovitz Running Time: 15:00 min Language: English Supported by the Focus Features Africa First Short Film Program www.focusfeatures.com/africafirst Supported by Gauteng Film Commission www.gautengfilm.org.za Alone in his high-rise apartment, Aaron Zukerman’s Berea is long-gone, but the old man has one last link to the here and now – a weekly visit from a beautiful stranger. Long after his friends and family have moved on, Jewish pensioner Aaron Zukerman remains in his inner-city apartment, his world getting ever smaller and smaller, as the city closes in on his memories and happiness. His focus is on a weekly assignation with a kindly prostitute, for which he prepares days in advance. But when her unexpected replacement arrives one Friday, an initially angry response sparks a chain of events that ultimately changes the way the old man sees his world. A gentle, poetic ode to the power of reinvention. Image © Jonathan Kovel Director - Vincent Moloi Moloi, primarily a documentary filmmaker, but has directed different drama series for TV. He studied Media Studies before cutting his teeth at Soweto Community TV initiative. For the SABC he has made ground-breaking documentaries including A Pair of Boots and Bicycle, profiling black South African soldiers in WWII; Nightsweepers, an earnest examination of women sweeping the streets of Johannesburg at night; I am A Rebel about a South African author and Robben Island anti-apartheid prisoner turned anti-capitalist activist. With his African Metropolis inclusion Berea, he revisits themes of diminished power he first explored in Men of Gold, his 2007 documentary reflecting the contradictions of being poor, white, previously privileged and now disempowered in a post-apartheid world. Writer/Producer – Makgano Mamabolo Makgano Mamabolo matriculated as a Drama student at the National School of the Arts and then went onto acquiring her Bachelor of Live Performance from AFDA in 2001. She has since been working as a professional actress for the past five years, having covered a spectrum of genres from presenting, to soapie, to sitcom, to drama, to film, as well as performing Miss Kwa Kwa, her one woman show for theatres country wide during all this time. She is not just an actress however, but moves comfortably from in front of the camera, to behind the scenes. Apart from having directed and produced television magazine show inserts for DSTV, she has for the past three years also been a Conceptualist for programmes such as Home Affairs, Mazinyo dot Q… spanning from drama to comedy, but more so a Writer, for programmes such as Fela’s TV and Nomzamo. She is now moving into the next progressive step in her career as a Creative Producer, with her first programme being SOCIETY, under Puo Pha Productions – a production company she is co-partner of. Writer - Lodi Matsetela WRITER – PRODUCER – DIRECTOR – PARTNER AT PUO PHA PRODUCTIONS. Drama school matriculant, Advertising graduate, currently working towards her Masters in film at Howard University in Washington DC. Having worked mostly in television, she along with her production company are delving into the development of feature films. African Metropolis: To Repel Ghosts Written & Directed by Philippe Lacôte Producer: Claire Gadéa Executive Producer: Steven Markovitz Running Time: 20:00 min Language: Nouchi / French; Subtitles: English During a visit to Abidjan, French artist Jean-Michel Baquiat comes face to face with demons, ghosts, doubt - and his own death On 12 August 1988, Jean-Michel Basquiat passed away. Nevertheless, his memory remains very much alive. This film pays homage to him by telling the unknown story of his trip to the Ivory Coast. Basquiat arrived in Abidjan at a time when he was exhausted. Haunted by his ghosts. All his hope lay in this first encounter with Africa… Image © Delphine Jaquet Writer/Director – Philippe Lacôte Lacôte started his professional career as a radio reporter in 1989 with a series of podcasts on the fall of the Berlin wall. Short fiction films followed; The Messenger and Affaire Libinski were shown in several international festivals. Alongside these he developed documentary work including Cairo Hours, and the acclaimed Chronicles of War in the Ivory Coast. He is currently shooting his first feature film, Run, coproduced by Arte, which is the junction of his fiction and documentary approaches. Lacôte was part of the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation programme. Producer - Claire Gadéa Claire started her career at JBA Production with producer Jacques Bidou. As a production assistant, she worked on about ten feature films including One Evening After the War by Rithy Panh (Un Certain Regard, Cannes 1998), The Mutants by Teresa Villaverde (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes 1998), April Captains by Maria de Medeiros (Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2000) and Lumumba by Raoul Peck (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes 2000). In 2007, she joined Steamboat Films as a production manager. She is responsible for the ‘collection design’ for the Franco-German TV channel Arte, in co- production with the Centre Georges Pompidou (18 documentaries produced to date). In 2008, at Lobster Films, she created the VoD website Europa Film Treasures, with the support of the Media Programme of the European Union and in partnership with 30 European film archives. Since 2008, Claire Gadéa has been working at Banshee Films as a producer. She is currently producing Run, Philippe Lacôte’s first feature-length film, in partnership with Wassakara Productions, Diam Production, Arte France CInéma, Canal + Afrique, Onac-Ci, CNC, OIF, Bac Films. African Metropolis Executive Producer Steven Markovitz is one of Africa’s most pioneering producers, with 20 years’ experience on feature films, documentaries, short films, distribution and festivals. He has an extensive production and distribution network across Africa and has co-produced with over ten countries internationally. Steven co-founded the production company Big World Cinema in 1994 as well as Encounters South African International Documentary Festival in 1999. Steven co-produced the thriller Viva Riva!, directed by Djo Tunda wa Munga, (Toronto 2010. Berlinale 2011), won the MTV Movie Award for Best African Movie, 2011 and a record 6 African Movie Academy Awards.
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