SCREENINGS
Date: 20/10/2009
Cost: Free Screening
Time: 18:30
Venue: Shortwave Cinema
Slideshow:
Trailer: Great Africans: Wole Soyinka
Date: 20/10/2009
Cost: Free Screening
Time: 18:30
Venue: Shortwave Cinema
Slideshow:
Great Africans: Wole Soyinka
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Great Africans: Wole Soyinka
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Great Africans: Wole Soyinka
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Trailer: Great Africans: Wole Soyinka
Great Africans: Wole Soyinka
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
TUESDAY 20th OCTOBER 2009 - BHM SHOWCASE
Great Africans: Wole Soyinka
Film info: A colourful biography of Nigerian playwright and poet Wole Soyinka, the first African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1986. The documentary is based on extensive interviews with the great scholar himself, who shares with us his love for theatre - “There’s something about the theatre that makes my fingers tingle,” he confesses. Art critics, journalists and noted writers including UK novelist Biyi Bandele put his work into context and praise his inventive use of language. The documentary adopts a more serious tone when touching on the subject of Soyinka’s role in Nigeria’s political history. The most revealing comments come from Soyinka himself, as he expresses his views on colonialism and the reasons behind his activism.
Time: 52mins
Release: 2009 – European Premiere
Director: Akin Amotoso
Country: South Africa
Distributor: Courtesy MNet
Great Africans: Wole Soyinka
Film info: A colourful biography of Nigerian playwright and poet Wole Soyinka, the first African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1986. The documentary is based on extensive interviews with the great scholar himself, who shares with us his love for theatre - “There’s something about the theatre that makes my fingers tingle,” he confesses. Art critics, journalists and noted writers including UK novelist Biyi Bandele put his work into context and praise his inventive use of language. The documentary adopts a more serious tone when touching on the subject of Soyinka’s role in Nigeria’s political history. The most revealing comments come from Soyinka himself, as he expresses his views on colonialism and the reasons behind his activism.
Time: 52mins
Release: 2009 – European Premiere
Director: Akin Amotoso
Country: South Africa
Distributor: Courtesy MNet