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Award-winning doc DEAR MANDELA: nation-wide broadcast on the *WORLD CHANNEL Jan 29, free online streaming* Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:03:55 -0500 From: Thessa Mooij <thessa at silversaltpr.com <http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism>> To: Thessa Mooij <studio at silversaltpr.com <http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism>> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 14 2012 AfroPop Season 5: Gabourney Sidibe Presents: ** *DEAR MANDELA by Dara Kell & Chris Nizza* * (Durban and Brooklyn Film Festival Award Winner) South Africa, 2011, HD, color, 93 min. *National TV broadcast on the WORLD Channel* *Tuesday January 29, 2013 7pm ET, 9pm PT* *New York:* WLIW World on Cablevision 132, Time Warner 164, Verizon Fios 473 *Philadelphia*: WHYY *Boston*: WGBH - *San Francisco*: KQED *January 29 February 5*: free online streaming on blackpublicmedia.org <http://blackpublicmedia.org> *March 1-31*: free online streaming on blackpublicmedia.org <http://blackpublicmedia.org> Directors Dara Kell and Chris Nizza are available for interviews.* /NEW YORK TIMES: South Africas comedown from post-apartheid unity has been going on for a while, but Dear Mandela usefully outlines the forces of exclusion and generational shifts that have arisen. VARIETY: This evocatively shot, lucidly edited film deserves wider distribution./ After a successful theatrical run in New York in September and screenings in Haitian displacement camps, in Scandinavia, Germany and South Africa, DEAR MANDELA follows three young South African activists as they fight for the housing promised by Nelson Mandela when his ANC first came to power. DEAR MANDELA gets its national US TV premiere as part of the fifth season of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, an innovative documentary series highlighting contemporary life, art and pop culture in the African Diaspora, produced for the WORLD Channel and American Public Television. This season is presented by Academy Award-nominated actress Gabourney Sidibe (PRECIOUS). Winner of the prize for Best South African Documentary at the Durban International Film Festival and a nominee for Best Documentary at the African Academy Awards, DEAR MANDELA is a remarkably lucid view of a situation that is as complex as it is urgent. Deftly moving between social spheres in a South Africa that finds itself as segregated along class lines today as it once was along racial divides, Dara Kell and Christopher Nizzas stirring, rigorous film a product of the Sundance Institutes Documentary Fund tracks the catastrophic effects of a government bent on progress without regard for its citizens. As the government moves to destroy shack homes, or informal settlements, as theyre officially known, without providing alternative housing, hundreds of thousands of shack dwellers face homelessness. Kell and Nizza dive into the world of the Kennedy Road settlement, a sprawl of lean-tos located just miles from the urban center of Durban. Here, amidst the ravages of AIDS and extreme poverty, they find the core of a resistance movement, the Abahlali baseMjondolo. Among its members are two unique, young leaders the calm, eloquent student Mazwi and the passionate, rousing shopkeeper Mnikelo. Though these two serve as the films beating heart, and the source of its most powerful political critiques, Kell and Nizza offer a wide-ranging portrait of this community. As a decision on the slum act a provision which allows for immediate demolition of any home deemed unfit drags its ways through the courts, the filmmakers move from classroom to courtroom, street to safe house, painting a clear, comprehensive portrait of South Africas deeply troubled political situation, one in which the former revolutionaries the ANC (African National Congress) have congealed into their own potentially repressive force. Young leaders such as Mazwi and Mnikelo are faced with the task of not only fighting for the right of their people to a better life, but of doing so without alienating those who fought the same fight just decades earlier. DIRECTOR"S NOTES: Dara Kell: In 2007, I first learned about a new social movement called Abahlali baseMjondolo (Residents of the Shacks). I was immediately intrigued by the potential of this deeply democratic movement to find some way through the seemingly intractable situation of millions of people living in life-threatening conditions in rapidly growing informal settlements. ABOUT THE DIRECTORS: Dara Kell is a South African documentary director and editor. As an editor, she has worked on a number of high-profile films and television shows, including Academy Award nominee JESUS CAMP and Emmy Award winner DIAMOND AT THE ROCK. She has also edited short films for Human Rights Watch and the MacArthur Foundation. For DEAR MANDELA, she was selected as a fellow at the Sundance Institute Documentary Composers Lab and the IFP Documentary Lab. Christopher Nizza, a native of New York City and an Emmy winner for his work at MSG Network, has edited films and television documentaries (HOLLYWOOD DC, IRONMAN TRIATHLON), commercials, and music videos. In 2010, he produced and edited stories for NBCs coverage of the Vancouver Winter Olympics. For DEAR MANDELA, he was selected as a fellow at the Sundance Institute Documentary Composers Lab and the IFP Documentary Lab. AfroPop interview with the directors: http://bit.ly/TEDM4o Website: www.dearmandela.com <http://www.dearmandela.com> Press materials: www.silversaltpr.com <http://www.silversaltpr.com> *Press contacts:* Thessa Mooij, 212.729.7071thessa at silversaltpr.com <http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism> <mailto:thessa at silversaltpr.com <http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism>> Brian Geldin, 917.549.2953brian at briangeldin.com <http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism> <mailto:brian at briangeldin.com <http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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