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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