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'''''Mugabe and the White African''''' is a 2009 [[documentary film]] by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson. The film documents the lives of a [[Caucasian race|white]] farming family in [[Zimbabwe]] as they challenge the controversial land redistribution of 2000. |
'''''Mugabe and the White African''''' is a 2009 [[documentary film]] by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson. The film documents the lives of a [[Caucasian race|white]] farming family in [[Zimbabwe]] as they challenge the controversial land redistribution of 2000. |
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== Awards and honors == |
== Awards and honors == |
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* Sterling World Feature Award, 2009 [[Silverdocs|SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival]].<ref name="Silverdocs">{{cite press release | title = SILVERDOCS ANNOUNCES 2009 FESTIVAL WINNERS | publisher = [[Silverdocs|SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival]] | date = 2009-06-22 | url = http://silverdocs.com/news-links/2009/06/22/silverdocs-announces-2009-festival-winners/ | accessdate = 2009-07-18 }}</ref> |
* Sterling World Feature Award, 2009 [[Silverdocs|SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival]].<ref name="Silverdocs">{{cite press release | title = SILVERDOCS ANNOUNCES 2009 FESTIVAL WINNERS | publisher = [[Silverdocs|SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival]] | date = 2009-06-22 | url = http://silverdocs.com/news-links/2009/06/22/silverdocs-announces-2009-festival-winners/ | accessdate = 2009-07-18 }}</ref> |
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== Focus of the documentary == |
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The focus of the documentary itself is quite simple, in the sense that it documentary aims at exploring the broken down relations between whites and blacks in Zimbabwe. This is acomplished by taking a single case in which, Michael Campbell (a farmer), challenges sweeping land reform that is affecting him. However, the underlying focus of the film seems to hint an aim at the broken down relations that are starkly pointed over land claims. Politics perhaps is the the excuse and pretext to the age old argument of struggle for power, land claim and rights of citizenship and who is more prevalent to them. The film seems to point in a general direction towards a black and white theme, Europe against perhaps what is a very missunderstood and also undemocratic African point of view. There is definetly some underlying themes behind the facade of land dispute; this in itself seems to be used as main point of attraction towards other themes such as politics in Zimbabwe and racial relations. Furthermore, the tone of the film seems to aim at discretiding his Excellency Robert Mugabe and aims at turning the racial argument around. Forgetting the history through which many white farmers got to claim their land in Zimbabwe in the first place. |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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Revision as of 08:13, 19 July 2009
| Mugabe and the White African | |
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| Directed by | Lucy Bailey Andrew Thompson |
| Produced by | David Pearson Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock |
| Cinematography | Andrew Thompson |
| Edited by | Tim Lovell |
| Music by | Jonny Pilcher |
Production company | Arturi Films |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Template:FilmUK |
| Language | English |
Mugabe and the White African is a 2009 documentary film by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson. The film documents the lives of a white farming family in Zimbabwe as they challenge the controversial land redistribution of 2000.
Awards and honors
- Sterling World Feature Award, 2009 SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival.[1]
Focus of the documentary
The focus of the documentary itself is quite simple, in the sense that it documentary aims at exploring the broken down relations between whites and blacks in Zimbabwe. This is acomplished by taking a single case in which, Michael Campbell (a farmer), challenges sweeping land reform that is affecting him. However, the underlying focus of the film seems to hint an aim at the broken down relations that are starkly pointed over land claims. Politics perhaps is the the excuse and pretext to the age old argument of struggle for power, land claim and rights of citizenship and who is more prevalent to them. The film seems to point in a general direction towards a black and white theme, Europe against perhaps what is a very missunderstood and also undemocratic African point of view. There is definetly some underlying themes behind the facade of land dispute; this in itself seems to be used as main point of attraction towards other themes such as politics in Zimbabwe and racial relations. Furthermore, the tone of the film seems to aim at discretiding his Excellency Robert Mugabe and aims at turning the racial argument around. Forgetting the history through which many white farmers got to claim their land in Zimbabwe in the first place.
See also
References
- ^ "SILVERDOCS ANNOUNCES 2009 FESTIVAL WINNERS" (Press release). SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival. 2009-06-22. Retrieved 2009-07-18.