17th-21st April Festival
Programme
Still: Punk in Africa
5 Days of Shorts, Documentary & Feature Film Screenings, Masterclass Workshops, 48 Hour Film Challenge & Special Festival Guests
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www.sbf.org.za Ginsberg Film Festival is a new feature of The Annual Ginsberg Easter Festival that takes place over 5 days and hosts a number of arts, cultural and sporting events. The Steve Biko Centre, located in the Ginsberg Township in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province, is dedicated to the legacy of antiapartheid activist Bantu Stephen Biko. The Center is intended to be a living monument that utilizes memory to channel local energies towards contemporary development challenges. Mandated to translate global interest in Black Consciousness, the facility is dedicated to translating global interest in the legacy of Steve Biko into a developmental resource for the region via the Steve Biko Foundation.
Hello World, Welcome to the Ginsberg Film Festival Programmed throughout this years film festival are a diverse range of shorts, features and documentaries that are to be screened over 4 days at the Steve Biko Centre, Ginsberg. One key aspect of the festival is the Manchester 360 Community Film Programme, were we screen 66 films that have been programmed by Apna Creatives in the UK. The films being screened provide South African audiences a new opportunty to watch and experience a new generation of filmmakers making new shorts and documentaries abroad and at home.
Alongside Manchester 360, we have daily screenings of 5 films from the disability filmmaking community of Dollywood Productions and archives from South Africas Afravisions History Uncut series.
“We extend a warm welcome to everyone...Ginsberg Film Festival is an amazing opportunity to connect and open doors to cultural exchange through film� Nceba Mqolomba, Festival Director
Ginsberg Film Festival Lead Producers Radio Ya Bantu. Festival programme supported by;
Lead film producers and directors Mark Fredricks, Bonganjalo Marala and luzuko Dilima will also be delivering our Masterclass Workshops. As part of encouraging young film talent to develop skills, we host a 48 Hour Film Challenge over 2 days that encouarges young people to make new short films that explore the theme of Liberation in partnership with Bay TV.
We would like to thank all our special guests, project partners, participants and all our guest filmmakers screening films at As part of our growth of film exhibition, we screen 4 South the Ginsberg Film Festival. Special thanks to the Steve Biko Africa features at GinsbergFoundation & Centre for all Come Back Africa, A Good Report, Injury Time and Punk in their valued support. Africa. Ginsberg Film Festival Radio Ya Bantu, Nge Yakho Nawe & Apna Creatives UK Manchester
360 Community Film Programme APNA CREATIVES Manchester Lead Producers Apna Creatives in association with;
Ginsberg Film Festival Timetable
17th-21st April
5 Days of Shorts, Documentary & Feature Film Screenings, Masterclass Workshops, 48 Hr Film Challenge & Special Festival Guests
THURSDAY 17th
FRIDAY18th
0900-16.00hrs DAILY SCREENINGS
0900- 16.00 hrs DAILY SCREENINGS
Dollywood Productions & AfraVisions History Uncut
Dollywood Productions & AfraVisions History Uncut
SPECIAL GUEST, Thamsanqa Nkonki
MASTERCLASS WORKSHOPS
Ginsberg Film Festival Opening Day
Film and Creative Industry Development Officer ADM (Amathole District Municipality) Eastern Cape
MASTERCLASS WORKSHOPS 1. Technical aspects of film making Marc Fredericks, Walter Sisulu University, Eastern Cape
2. Media as a tool for social commentary Marc Fredericks, Walter Sisulu University, Eastern Cape
16:00-18.00hrs MANCHESTER 360 Community Film Programme MANCHESTER 360 Trailer Nick Wallbank, Short, 40 secs (screened daily) DUTTY LINGO (Teaser) Michael Barnes-Wynters, Short, 4 mins 51 secs AFROCUBISM Clive Hunte ,Busha Productions & Band on the Wall Doc, 16 mins 58 secs ONE MINUTE Volume 7 Kerry Baldry / Curator, 50 x 1 Min Shorts, 50 mins COUNTRYBOY’S STRUGGLE Albino Mosquito, An Omnibus Film, 35 mins 55 secs
18:00- 20:00hrs COME BACK AFRICA Feature Doc / Drama, 95 mins, B&W
1. Directing, Bonganjalo Marala, Director, Plexus Films 2. Producing, luzuko Dilima, Producer, ‘Of Good Report’
16:00-18:00hrs MANCHESTER 360 Community Film Programme WHOSE REMEMBRANCE? Imperial War Museums, Doc, 21mins IN PLACE OF WAR University of Manchester & In Place of War, Doc, 30 mins PREMIERE / DIVISIONS Chris Paul Daniels, Feature Doc, 60mins
18:00-20:00hrs OF GOOD REPORT, Feature Film, 101 mins
SUNDAY 20th SPECIAL GUEST, Themba Wakashe, CEO Film and Publications Board of South Africa (FPB)
Filmmmaking with young people on the theme of Liberation
16:00-18.00hrs MANCHESTER 360 Community Film Programme SAVAGES, Howard Walmsley, Short, 27 mins
INSIGHT FILM FESTIVAL, Festival Director Selection ADMISSIONS Gavin Berman & John Viscount, Short, 20 mins 58 secs DAD Michelle Bailey, Short, 11 mins 29 secs
KINOFILM MANCHESTER SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Festival Director Selection HIJABI GIRLS Nada Abdulla / BBC Three Fresh, Doc, 5 mins THE JIGSAW PUZZLE Basiil & Rashad Al Safar, Short 8 mins 26 secs
BOKEH YEAH! DLSR Academy Poem Film Selection
SATURDAY19th
RUNNING TIME Adele Myers & Ra Page, Short, 3 mins 10 Secs
0900-16.00hrs DAILY SCREENINGS
TYVEN Adele Myers & Single Cell Collective, Short, 7 mins 51 Secs
Dollywood Productions & AfraVisions History Uncut
DAY 1, 48 HOUR FILM CHALLE|NGE Filmmmaking with young people on the theme of Liberation
SPECIAL GUEST, Mkhuseli Jack Anti apartheid activist who appears in History Uncut series
0900hrs - 2100hrs DAY 2, 48 HOUR FILM CHALLENGE
MONDAY 21st 1400- 1600hrs 48 Hour Film Challenge FINAL Short Film Screenings with Bay TV 16:00-18:00hrs MANCHESTER 360 Community Film Programme ROOFLESS Community Arts North West, Doc,15 mins 30 secs SEWING BEES Healthy Me, Healthy Communities, Doc, 2 mins 59 secs
REEL MCR Directors Film Selections ANGEL Reel Mcr, Community Feature Film,, 45 mins 4 secs THE BOOTH HALL FAMILY Reel Mcr, Community Feature Doc, 46 mins 54 secs
18:00-20:00hrs PUNK IN AFRICA Feature Doc, 82 mins
UPON A CROCUS CLOTH Adele Myers, Short, 7 mins
Closing Festival Ceremony 18:00-20:00hrs INJURY TIME (The Rise of the 80 Minute Nation) Feature Doc, 60mins
FILM IS FOOD FOR THE
Soul
Manchester 360 Community Film Programme, South Africa Shorts & Documentary Screenings UK GMT 16:00hrs - 18:00hrs (4pm - 6pm) South Africa ZA 16:00hrs - 18:00hrs (6pm-8pm)
Still: Terry Egan, REEL MCR
Ginsberg Manchester-
Dollywood Productions Dollywood Productions by Disabled Youth is a media and film skills training programme run by Disabled People South Africa (DPSA). Developed in 2011 through a collaboration with Norges Handikapforbund (NAD) and the Film and Publication Board of South Africa to address the development of diability film makers. Disabled youths between the ages of 13 and 24 began training in idea development, script writing, camera work, editing, post production, photography and journalism. The six short films that will be screened at Ginsberg Film Festival are; The Shy Girl, Love at First Sight, The Talented Boy Learn, No Taxi for Me, & Don’t Look for Love. www.facebook.com/pages/Dollywood-production-film-by-disabledyouth/130965666973765 @filmdisabled Disabled People South Africa are one of leading disablity rights organisation in the country. www.dpsa.org.za
AfraVisions History Uncut
Still: STEPHANIE LLOYD
THE AFRAVISION ARCHIVE Afravision is a company that evolved out of the VNS collective that documented struggles in South Africa from the early eighties until 1994. Afravision is creating archive based programming that aims to bring this valuable material to life again and make it more useful in society. VNS, formed by Laurence Dworkin, Brian Tilley and Mokoenyana Molete was a full time unit that worked closely with the unions, civic and youth groups within South Africa and co-ordinated directly with the ANC in exile. The archive built up over this period is the most comprehensive and in-depth of that period running to three thousand hours. The unit covered strikes, clashes with police, funerals, union congresses, communities organising and many other struggle issues. 5 films are to be screened from the HISTORY UNCUT 12 part series that uses as little mediation as possible allowing stories to unfold as the camera saw them at the time. The series covered key events like the opposition to the first Tri Cameral Elections; The 1987 Miners Strike; the late eighties Defiance Campaign; the war between Inkatha and ANC youth in Soweto; the uprisings in the Eastern Cape and the release of Mandela and ANC leaders. (Source Afravisions website) www.afravision.com www.youtube.com/user/Afravision
ZA Daily Screenings
COME BACK AFRICA Director Lional Rogosin, Feature Doc / Drama, 95 mins, B&W Banned in South Africa in 1959. The flm chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in Sophiatown. Stars world music singer Mariam Makebe.
ZA Thurs 17th
DUTTY LINGO (Teaser) Michael Barnes-Wynters, Short, 4 mins 51 secs An immersive oral histories exploration of the influence of Jamaican culture on UK subcultures featuring over 120 Mancunian residents aged between 15-68 years old. Part of a large scale multi-screen installation with live performances as part of at Tate Tanks opening programme.
MCR 360 Thurs 17th
COUNTRYBOY’S STRUGGLE Albino Mosquito & Contact Theatre, Omnibus Film, 35mins 55 secs Maxwell Golden stars in a fish-out-of-water tale of an MC’s journey from the cliffs of Cornwall to the streets of London on the search for a Hip Hop community. What will he find? Originally commissioned as part of The Space by Arts Council England and BBC Online as a 9 part online series.
AFROCUBISM Clive Hunte & Band on the Wall / Busha Productions Doc, 16 mins 58 secs Afrocubism was a project that was first conceived in 1996 to record Cuban and Mali musicians in Havana, taking 14 years to finally come together. Combining highlights of a live concert at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall with interviews with guest musicians. Originally commissioned of The Space by Arts Council England and BBC Online as a 12 part online series.
MANCHESTER 360 (Trailer) Nick Wallbank, Short, 40 secs Nick Wallbank is a motion graphics designer and film director whose films have been screened worldwide on TV and at festivals and galleries throughout Europe. His work is being featured in this years Venice Architectural Biennale. Music composed by Nick Wallbank. Screened daily.
MCR 360 Thurs 17th
ONE MINUTE volume 7 Kerry Baldry, 50 Shorts x 1 min, 50 mins total An eclectic mix of artists' moving image, the seventh in the series. Each piece of work is constrained to the time limit of one minute. A myriad of approaches, techniques, media and processes have been employed, creating elusive, challenging and memorable work. Kerry Baldry is an artist/filmmaker & curator.
Marty St. James
Artist filmmakers: One Minute volume 7, Running order Similitudes & Latitude - Eva Rudlinger Gargantuan - John Smith The Fair - Rose Butler From The West - Steven Ball Artist Vs. Drawing – Alexander Costello Wilton Wisc. - Leister / Harris LPX 230311 – Riccardo Iacono Project – Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore Jubilee – Louisa Minkin Presentation Skills – Claire Hope Model Starship – Max Hattler Minuet – Steven Woloshen Sea – Tony Hill Walk from Station to work - Lynn Loo Aye Aye – Lumiere and Son Paper Bag - Tansy Spinks Prologue to a film - Gary Peploe and Peter Nutley Artist Vs. Drawing 2 – Alexander Costello running man – Michael Szpakowski Unintentional Movie - Guy Sherwin The Attraction of Manoeuvre – Zhel (Zeljko Vukicevic) The hands want to see, the eyes want to caress - Matthias Kispert Sunrise – Stuart Pound England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty -Sellotape Cinema Grand Tour – Alex Pearl Sink or Swim – My Name Is Scot Boot – Kerry Baldry 88 Cuts – Esther Johnson The Invisible Man – Marty St. James The Forest was alive (but no one was home) - Nicki Rolls Artists Vs. Drawing 3 - Alexander Costello Sun Solarise (Emotional FX) - Katherine Meynell Election Coverage – Chris Paul Daniels Dog Glossary - Edwin Rostron Cable Car - Martin Pickles Transduction - Grant Petrey Atlas - Annabel Dover Talking loud and saying nothing - Kelvin Brown
MCR 360 Thurs 17th
OF GOOD REPORT Director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, Feature Film,101 mins, B&W An introverted high school teacher in rural South Africa starts an obsessive affair with a pupil, with tragic consequences. A South African homage to film noir.
ZA FRI 18th
PREMIERE / DIVISIONS Chris Paul Daniels, Feature Doc, 60mins Premier/Divisions surveys the perceived an real divisions in Kenyan society in the run up to the 2013 presidential elections. The film presents a personalised portrait of Nairobi and reflects on universal societal habits regarding communal identities, ideologies and alliances.
MCR 360 FRI 18th
WHOSE REMEMBRANCE?
IN PLACE OF WAR
IWM (Imperial War Museums), Doc, 21mins
The University of Manchester/ In Place of War, Doc, 30 mins
Whose Remembrance? highlights the efforts which historians, museum professionals and community workers are making to discover how the peoples of the former British Empire were affected by the two world wars, following an Arts and Humanities Research Councilfunded study examining knowledge of this history.
A film about the work of In Place of War made in Democratic Republic Congo with theatre practitioners and academics.
MCR 360 FRI 18th
INJURY TIME (The Rise of the 80 Minute Nation) Director Mark Fredericks, Feature Doc, 60mins A documentary which looks at the role of sport in oppressed communities in South Africa.
ZA SAT 19th
INSIGHT FILM FESTIVAL FESTIVAL DIRECTOR SELECTION by John Forrest The Insight Film Festival exists to encourage film makers throughout the world to make films about ‘faith’. It creates events and spaces where such films can be displayed, discussed and celebrated. Insight welcomes participants from all faith backgrounds and none and focuses particularly on young film makers. In doing so Insight wants to make positive contributions to community cohesion. Based in Manchester, we invite entries from across the globe. Short films selected for the Ginsberg Film Festival are Admissions & Dad. www.insightfestival.co.uk
MCR 360 SAT 19th
ADMISSIONS
The screenplay for Admissions was originally written in Gavin J Berman (Producer) & John Viscount (Writer) response to 9/11. Alarmed by the rising amount of division Admissions Film, Short, 20 Mins 58 Secs and hostility in the world, John Viscount (Writer) felt compelled to put forth an interpretation of life he hoped Admissions is a short film that stars Academy would lead more naturally to forgiveness. Award nominee James Cromwell that tells a transformational tale about what it takes to find With a core team of Viscount, Gavin J Behrman (Producer) lasting peace. Featuring an Israeli couple and a and Harry Kakatsakis (Director) they raised funds from Palastinian, this modern day parable is set in the Kickstarter to make the film. Admission Room for the Afterlife, its purpose is to start a conversation that heals. Securing Academy Award nominee and peace activist James Cromwell (film acting credits :LA Confidential/ Star Trek / I, Robot) to star in the film. They also met and secured Charles Minsky as Director of Photography a highly accomplished Hollywood veteran whose films hits that have included film classics such as Pretty Woman, You Me and Dupree & The Producers who agreed to come aboard as soon as he read the script! Admissions also features; Anna Khaja as ‘Daphna’ (Film credits - King of California starring opposite Michael Douglas) Oran Dayan as ‘Ahmed’ (TV credits - NCIS / The Sarah Conner Chronicles ) Anthony Batarse as ‘Eli’ ( TV Credits – West Wing / Days of Our Lives)
MCR 360 SAT 19th
DAD Michelle Bailey / Baileyface Productions Short, 11Mins 29 Secs Dad is about one mans true story of deterioration into alcoholism and how his pain has resulted from the loss of his daughter. We accompany him on his journey after we find him sleeping in a church pew that he is reluctant to leave. He begins to wander the streets of Coventry and does not notice anyone - least of all his lost daughter who now stands in front of him‌
MCR 360 SAT 19th
KINOFILM MANCHESTER SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Festival Director Selection by John ‘Kino’ Wojowski Kino Film have been celebrating the talents of emerging and established film makers since 1993. With a distinguished history of being Manchester first ever ‘Pop up’ cinema festival with events at various locations within the City, Kinofilm hosts regular international and European film festivals, delivers specialist archive film events, feature film and short film screenings. Kinofilm also hosts the longest running monthly short film event in the North West of England called KinoShorts hosted in the the Cities of Manchester & Salford, North West. Short film selections for Ginsberg Film Festival are Hijabi Girls & The Jigsaw Puzzle
MCR 360 SAT 19th
HIJABI GIRLS Nada Abdulla / BBC Three Fresh, Doc, 5 Mins A factual, intimate portrait of an emerging UK Muslim fashion designer, Barjis Chohan, who is not only challenging the concept of modesty and Islamic fashion with her designs but also western mainstream’s market need for conservative clothing.
MCR 360 SAT 19th
THE JIGSAW PUZZLE Basil & Rashad Al-Safar, Sibling Fims, Short, 8 mins 26 secs The purchase of a mystery jigsaw puzzle from a strange and unsettling vendor leads a man to an evening of frightening consequences.
MCR 360 SAT 19th
ADELE MYERS / BOKEH YEAH! DLSR Academy Poem Film Screenings Racing Time,Tyven & Upon A Crocus Cloth
RACING TIME Adele Myers & Ra Page, Short, 3 Mins 10 Secs Inspired by poet Chris Woods neighbour Ron Heaton, a 70-year-old fell runner and his resolve to run in all weathers. The poem Racing Time was first published in collection from Comma Press and the poets words inspired the film makers to create a work where the audience travel with the runner.
MCR 360 SAT 19th
UPON A CROCUS CLOTH Adele Myers, Short, 7 Mins, In this adaptation of a poem by David Constantine, the perception of addiction is called into question. A Bokeh Yeah! production in association with Comma Film.
TYVEN Adele Myers & Single Cell Collective, Short, 7 Mins 51 Secs Inspired by the music of Anton Hunter.The film exposes a couple as they go about their daily activities in a remote and testing environment. Created for the Bokeh Yeah! and Single Cell Collective music video challenge.
MCR 360 SAT 19th
SAVAGES Howard Walmsley Short, 27 Mins A re-examination of the anthropological sub-discipline of anthropometry, described as ‘the most overtly oppressive of photographic practices’. The film explores how participants respond to being photographed and how they see themselves and express ideas of being seen.
MCR 360 SAT 19th
REELMCR Directors Selection, Angel & The Booth Hall Family
THE BOOTH HALL FAMILY REELmcr, Community Feature Doc, 46 mins 54 secs Beginning in 1946 to the hospitals closure in 2009. ‘The Booth Hall Family’ is a series of interviews with staff, patients and parents of patients who all share memories of their time at Booth Hall Children’s Hospital.
MCR 360 MON 21st
ANGEL REELmcr, Community Feature film,45 mins 4 secs A drama based on the recent history of the renowned Booth Hall Children’s Hospital, Blackley, Manchester. Following the death of his father, a disillusioned teacher returns home to find the children’s hospital, where his father worked, has now closed and is awaiting demolition.
SEWING BEES Healthy Me, Healthy Communities, Doc, 2 mins 59 secs A short insight community film all about Rusholme Sewing Bees, a social creative crafts group started located in a diverse community area a few miles south of the city centre of
The history of the NHS means little to his students until he discovers a box of photographs and finds that the old hospital still has the power to touch and change lives.
MCR 360 MON 21st
ROOFLESS Community Arts North West, Doc, 15 mins 30 secs RoofLess is a moving video portrait of the lives of people in housing need who are part of the Petrus Community, a homeless charity in Rochdale. Set against a background of cuts to services, it explores their hopes, dreams and aspirations about an uncertain future.
MCR 360 MON 21st
PUNK IN AFRICA Directors Deon Maas & Keith Jones, Feature Doc, 82 mins Three chords, three countries, one revolution, the story of the multiracial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
ZA MON 21st
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