Cinema in Sudan: Conversations with Gadalla Gubara
- Category:
- Documentary
- Format:
- Digi-Beta
- Running Time:
- 52 min
- Year:
- 2008
About this film
Frdrique Cifuentess first documentary film, Cinema in Sudan: Conversation with Gadalla Gubara, builds up a portrait of a great Sudanese film-maker, Gadalla Gubara (1920 2008). He was still working at the age of eighty-eight - one of the pioneers of cinema in Africa.He recently lost his sight but still continued to film life in Sudan as no one before him. Through his oeuvre, Gadalla reveals to us a Sudan both mysterious and misunderstood.Despite censorship and lack of financial support over sixty years, he produced cinema that is independent and unique in a country where freedom of expression is a rare luxury.The film Conversations with Gadalla Gubara retraces the struggle of a man who received the 2006 Award for Excellence for his career at the Africa Academy Awards, Nigeria.The film shows a unique collection of archive footage and stills photography from one of the founding fathers of African cinema.Gadalla was a person with a unique character: a Sudanese of great charm, caustic in his criticism of film-making, a humorist of refinement whose blindness had not tempered the rebel in him. Running time: 52 minutesDirector & producer Frdrique CifuentesExcecutive producer Sias WilsonEditor Peter LewisSound recording Sidi MoctarOriginal music Tim Puckett, Waleed Waselny Norak, Sherhabeel Ahmed
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