JEMINA & JOHNNY

Credits

Name: JEMINA & JOHNNY

Country: Großbritannien

Year of publication: 1966

Format: digital

Color: b/w

Language : OF o.w.

Duration: 26 Minuten

Series: 19. Afrikafilmfestival

Direction: Ngakane, Lionel

Screenplay: Ngakane, Lionel

Camera: Probyn, Brian

Editing: Gladwell, David

Sound: Strain, Hugh

Actor: Robinson, Nicolette; Hatfield, Patrick

Abstract

In 1958, Notting Hill in West London erupted in vicious race riots. In South Africa in 1963, Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress leader, was imprisoned for life. Ngakane, a fellow ANC member, was exiled from South Africa and came to Britain to be a film director. JEMIMA & JOHNNY, his first fiction film, portrays the developing friendship between a white English boy and the young daughter of recent immigrants from the Caribbean, against the backdrop of a Notting Hill simmering with racial conflict. (Africultures)

TAHAR CHERIAA co-founded Africa’s oldest film festival, the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage in Tunis, in 1966. As the festival’s artistic director for many years, he was one of the most important pioneers of an independent African cinema, the legendary ‘Baobab Group’. This consisted of directors such as Ousmane Sembène (Senegal), Moustapha Alassane (Niger), Med Hondo (Mauritania), Timité Bassori (Ivory Coast), Ferid Boughedir (Tunisia), Gaston Kaboré (Burkina Faso) and Haile Gerima (Ethiopia), whose films also received international acclaim. They founded the filmmakers’ association FEPACI in Tunis alongside South African filmmaker Lionel Ngakane, whose anti-racist parable JEMIMA & JOHNNY is also being shown as a supporting film. With director Mohamed