First run for new films on Africa

Two new African Studies videos distributed by First Run/Icarus Films, 'In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies' and 'J’y Crois: I Believe In It', have been selected for screening at this year’s African Studies Association Conference, November 11-14, in New Orleans.

According to a press release from Gary Crowdus, Director of Marketing and Publicity at First Run/Icarus Films the documentary 'In Rwanda We Say...The Family that Does Not Speak Dies' (54 minutes, color) portrays the difficult steps toward reconciliation between Hutu and Tutsi. For further details on this film, click on http://www.frif.com/new2004/inrw.html

'J’y Crois: I Believe In It' (55 mins., color) is a political documentary on the decentralization process in Mali, which aims to transfer political and economic power to the democratically elected political bodies in decentralized communities. Further details can be found at http://www.frif.com/new2004/jy.html

First Run/Icarus Films’s new release on South Africa, 'Story of a Beautiful Country', will be screened on February 3, 2005 at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California. South African filmmaker Khalo Matanabe travels in a mini-van taxi across his country with a hand-held camera, giving his fellow South Africans the opportunity to discuss a wide range of controversial issues, including land, race, language, democracy, identity, and violence. Further details can be found at http://www.frif.com/new2004/beau.html