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"/ ask you to join in ~ Soutlltrn Africa SOUTHERN Media Center's program. Invite otllt, people of conscience into your home, school, church AFRICA VIDEO or community center to screen one of ~ir fine films." UBRARY. .. Archibishop Desmond Tutu
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FOR ONLY $595 2 NOT AVAILABLE AFTER 11 /28 /87 Witness To Apartheid
Producer/director: Sharon Sopher Co-producer/director: Kevin Harris 55 minutes, 1986 Video; sale $195, rental $75 16mm; sale $850, rental $85
For contractual reasons, we can not make Witness to Apartheid available after Nov, 28, 1987. Therefore, it is imperative that you purchase your copy before that dote.
Witness to Apartheid is the Academy Award nominated film which alerted the world to the daily police terror in South Africa, With Archibishop Tutu as a guide, Witness to Apartheid allow viewers to "travel" to South Photo by POIlI KonIIlfS Africa enter the townships and listen to the Migrant lalxw amp. Lanp, Cap(' Town 1980 VOICes of the tortured children themselves.
We meet a young boy barely able to speak after tVvO ...... eeks of beatings In detention, and J members of the banned Congress of South NEW RELEASE'
African Students, their idtntities hidden for But they also shaw how people sustain the fear of ar rest We share the grief of the struggle despite the overwhelming helpless parents of a teenage boy shot dead Bound to repression. We're introduced to some of the If'1 his school playground by a policeman. (ijJ organizations comprising the United Strike Back Democratic Front. the student organizations. We also meet adults still trying to change trade unions and consumer boycotts which South Africa ron-violently Mkhuseli Jack. the have mobilized mil lions. In the townships. Produced by: Capricorn Productions organizer of a successful black consumer street committees are replac ing gcrvernment boycott in Port Elizabeth, and "Cheeky" 35 minutes, 1987 fronts. And the ANC. convinced that Watson, a white merchant whose home was Video: sale $195, rental $60 repression rot reform is the states response bombed because he supported the boycott. 16mm: sale $490, rental $60 to political demands, is strengthening its Just completed. Bound to Strike Back is the underground networks and multiplying its WItness to Apartheid prCNides an essential fir;,t film to pierce the media ban and give armed actions. introduction to the human rights emergency voice to South Africa's freedom movement. in South Africa. It should be part of any It introduces Americans to the people who Bound to Strike Back is a unique profile of an library. will shape the new South Africa-the leaders insurgency. a case study of social conflict and of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and mass movements. It will help Americans "My words [cannot J reproduce what one African National Congress (ANC). know and respect the leaders we must sees in Witness to Apartheid. It is a brave re<:agnize if we are to have a meaningful. and powerful piece of journalism ... To see Bound to Strike Back shoNs a South Africa democratic South Africa policy. these things is to know why South African torn by Civil War. 3O.CXXl have been "Today we are blamed for Yiolence. But long blacks cannot be content, now, with detained and 2500 killed since the State of before we were born, long before the piecemeal reform." Emergency in a battle graNing more ruthless by ANC was formed, people in South Africa Anthony Lewis. New Yo'* Times the day. The filmmakers secretly fol low the security forces as they seal off townships were dying li ke flies."
with razor wire and move in shooting. And Henry Fazzie t UDF leader "One of the most heart-rending their cameras keep roll ing as other (now in detention) documentaries ever to have come out of journalists caught in restricted areas are from Bound to Strike Bock South Africa." The London Times beaten viciously by police. 4 NEW RELEASE! NEW RELEASE! systematically mutilates their captives. In the Corridors Destructive most harrowing sequences. earless MNR Engagement victims describe their ordeal. of Freedom In Angola a captured South African Producer: Scope Fil ms cOlTlmardo describes blCM'ing up oil Producer. Ingrid Sinclair 52 minutes, 1987 refinenes. We learn how the South African 52 minutes. 1987 Video: sale $195. rental $75 Defense Force 'NQr\t;s side by side with the Vi deo only: sale $195. rental $75 U.s. supported UNITA rebels; their favored 16mm: inquire t
The film examines SADCCs attempts to rationalize industrialization. coordinate marketing. and buikl a regional infrastructure. Their priority is the development ci alternative transportatiorl corridors to Mozarnbiquan and Angolan ports. But South Africa commandos and mercenaries repeatedly sabatoge their work.
Corridors of Freedom provides a unique inside look at emerging regional development structures which could pr<:l'-lide a model for a future post-apartheid southern Africa.
Photo by ~ Alphen L~ highbnd~ 1983 6 Winnie In 1960.69 armed black demonstrators And Nelson were shot dead by police at Sharpewille. Nelson reluctantly set out to organize a Mandela national strike and an AI\!( guerrilla force. Winnie and thew children v.ould never see him at rome again: sooo he was imprisoned Producer: National Black Programming for life. Consortium and Villon Films Director: Peter Oavis Winnie uncomfortably found herself thMt 58 minutes, 1986 more and more IntO the limelight. and Video: sale $195, rental $75 harrassed mercilessly by the authontles. The 16mm: sale $850, rental $85 film culminates when Winme. her 0Nn Ixluse and climc firebombed. defIeS her Nelson Mandela is the almost legerdary banning order and illegally addresses a mass funeral for youths killed by police. leader of black South Africa. HIs wife, W innie. has carried on their struggle since "This is a film that saddens. stuns ... and his imprisonment more than 20 years ago. empowers. Winnie and Nelson Mandela Their lives compri$e a uniquely Sooth emerge as steadfast lovers. ardent African love story. Their quest for freedom comrades and the clear. rightful leaders of and human dignity personifies the tortuous South Africa. This film will bruise your history of South Africa hea rt. dampen your cheeks and strengthen your soul." Alice Walker This film presents their tale through Winnie's eyes-ho.v she arrived in Johannesburg In the 19S WOZQ Albert! is the in ternational hit pl ay written and performed by tINO black South Africans which has riveted audiences from Johannesburg to New York. This ext raordinary BSC fi lm takes the vie\llle r beyond the theater. interweaving scenes from the play with ac tual visits by the two actors to the labor exchanges. open-air barbers, street verdors-the daily drama of South African life-which inspired their weck. WOZQ Albert! is based on an ironic premise: what would happen if ,!esus Christ returned to the self-proclaimed Christian country of South Africa? The resu lt is a vvork of dazzling energy-at once rbtoosly funny and deeply moving-which recreates the rhythms. smells and sounds of the black townships. We can feel the humiliation of having to sel l oneself to a white employer Photo by U$~ Lawson for the lQ'Nest wagf'.. the terror of being 9 Mrs. Anna Molol. apartment dea~r. Johanne$burg 1980 caught without a pass. the resiliency and South Africa humor which help blacks continue the fight • Winnie is a public health nurse from for justice. Perhaps more than any other. this Belongs $oNeto: she earns less tha n half he r white fi lm lets us sense what it's like to be black in counterparts. South Africa today. To Us • Joyce is a live-in domestic who tends to Because of its excitement, poignancy and the needs of a white child: her own humor. Wozo Albert! is ideal for general Producer. Gerhard Schmidt children must be boarded out with audiences. It also provides an engaging Director. Chris Aus tin relatives. vehicle for discussing apa rtheid and socially 35 minutes. 1980 committed literature in English and drama Video: sale $195, rental $60 South Africa Belongs to Us re mains the classes. 16mm: sale $490. rental $60 clearest introduction to the system of apartheid. its affect on family life, and the "Don't miss it. Woza Alberr! is a The press is filled with reports of killings and singular economic and emotional burdens it mas terpiece. Tri umphant, hilarious-an detentions in South Africa But what is inflicts upon black people. It is especially useful in women's programs. extraordinary evening. You may see nothing apartheid. and how does it affect everyday qu ite like it again." Clive Barnes life? This intimate fi lm portrait of five typical black women describes how apartheid "Chris Aus tin's film offers a modem saga of "A theatrical masterpiece ... done with such impoverishes, dehumanizes and ultimately human misery. He allows the facts-and style. inventiveness and uniqueness it can enslaves. the women-to speak for themselves." only be characterized as genius. The fitm is The Daily Express at once entertaining and educational. Don't Martha lives on an arid "reserve" caring miss it under any circumstances." for 13 children on the meager earnings "Five brave black women face the cameras The Black Scholar sent home by her husband who works illegally to talk of their fear and frustration 300 miles ifflay: she has seen him 20 times under apartheid ... It is a damning tale in 20 years. "The fitm is an ebullient. thoroughly they tell." The Daily Mail ingratiating tour de force. even as it lays • Carol. a hospital cleaner. shows us the bare the racist obscenities of apartheid." priSOf1-like barracks where she is housed New York Times with 4.CXXJ other women. 10 You Have Allan Boesak: Namibia: Struck a Rock! Choosing Mrica's Producer: Deborah May For Justice Last Colony 28 minutes, 1981 Video: sale $195, rental $60 Producer: Hugo Cassirer and Producer. Paul Hamann and 16mm: sale $490, rental $60 Nadine Gordimer Peter Salmon. BBC 52 minutes, 1984 Trough black South African 'lllQl'T)en suffer 28 minutes. 1984 the triple oppression of race. class and sex. Video: sale $195, rental $60 Video only: sale $195. rental $75 they have not been silent. Dunng the 19505 16mm: sale $490. rental $60 women took the lead in mobilizing mass Namlbto: A(ri Moving On expertly re