MARTIN SCORSESE’S WORLD CINEMA PROJECT Presents the restoration of SOLEIL Ô (Oh, Sun!) A FILM BY MED HONDO (Mauritania, 1970) Information: Address:
[email protected] The Film Foundation/World Cinema Project
[email protected] 7920 Sunset Boulevard, 6 th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90046 – USA Film Bookings: 110 W. 57th Street, 6th Floor New York, NY 10019 – USA
[email protected] Restoration supported by the George Lucas Family Foundation This restoration is part of the African Film Heritage Project, created by The Film Foundation, FEPACI and UNESCO – in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna – to help locate, restore, and disseminate African cinema. 1 2 It was purely by chance that we ended up being artists ‘of colour’, as is the term usually used. In Paris together for basically the same reasons, Bachir, Touré, Robert and I found ourselves right in the middle of a country, a city, where we had to get by, for a lack of better words, where we had to work: being an actor, a musician, a singer. And where we realized immediately the doors were closed […]. As a solution we thought of creating a theater group and, in the meantime, we all made Soleil Ô . In order to make the film we had to overcome every bureaucratic and material obstacle, in other words, find a producer and tell him: “It’s the best story around, because we believe in it”. Like they say: “If you’re good at talking, you’re good at making film”. And so, we made Soleil Ô without money […].