Scribe
Video Center
Thursday,
April 27 at 7:00pm
Producers’
Forum
Twelve
Disciples of Nelson Mandela
- Philadelphia Premiere
dir.
Thomas Allen Harris, South Africa/USA, 2005, HDCam, 73 mins,
color, English, Setswana and Afrikaans w/ English subtitles
Presented
in partnership with Ubuntu: The Essence of South Africa, International
House’s yearlong celebration of South Africa
Director
Thomas Allen Harris in person
 In
1960, while apartheid was shoring up its foundations,
a
group of young activists from the African National Congress
fought back from outside South Africa. Among them was Pule "Lee"
Leinaeng, the man who would become stepfather to director Thomas
Allen Harris. Harris weaves a wealth of archival images with
interviews and dramatic re-enactments featuring young South
African actors, to recount how Lee and his ANC colleagues came
to political consciousness and sent themselves into exile.
preceded by
Spirit
of Resistance
dir.
Jamese Wells, USA, 2006, video, 15 mins, color
In
rural Tanzania, two former Black Panthers, a local hip-hop crew
called Watengwa (Kiswahili for outcasts) and Prometheus Radio
Project come together to build a community radio station.
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