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AWARDS:
Duara:
2005
Innovation in Youth HIV/AIDS Education Award
International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA)International Film Festival
2003
Francois Manchuelle Award
Association of African Studies Programs
Best
Short Feature
West Virginia Filmmakers Festival
Special
Jury Recognition
Zanzibar International Film Festival
Sound
The Drum:
Achievement
in Technical Excellence
West Virginia
International Film Festival
Best
Educational Documentary
West
Virginia Filmmakers Festival
Selected
for:
Cucaloris
International Film Festival
Wilmington NC
Masters
Film Series
Czech Republic Academy of Performing Art
(Czech
National Film School, FAMU, Prague)
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DUARA
The
pilot project for the West Virginia State University-University
of Dar Es Salaam filmmaking program, TeleDrum, Duara tells the story
of two love struck schoolmates: Yusufu and Mariam, who, oblivious
in their love, face the fateful consequences of opening their intimate
duara (circle in Kiswahili). With the support of a Fulbright Initiative
Award, this short-feature was written and produced by filmmaking
students from the Fine and Performing Arts Department of the University
of Dar Es Salaam and West Virginia State University's Communications
Department to complement AIDA prevention campaigns in Africa. Utilizing
elements of the African oral tradition in the filmmaking style,
the film, while set in Tanzania (and shot entirely on location),
presents a theme relevant to young adults worldwide.
TeleDrum
presents DUARA (“Circle”)
MOSES
GASANA SUSAN KASSIM STEVEN NDIBALEMA ROSE KAPINGU
Executive
Producers DANIEL BOYD & AUGUSTIN HATAR Associate Producers STEVE
GILLILAND HAMZA ABDULLAH HUGH CANADA KENDALL MOORE Sound ERASTO
SIMA Art Directors GRACE MAHUMBUGA & ABIGAIL IBAYA Director
of Photography DYANKA BILAGAMBALAYE Music IMAN SANGA & MICHAEL
LIPTON Edited by RICHARD NDUNGURU Written by DELPHINE NJEWELE Produced
by DANIEL BOYD Directed by RICHARD NDUNGURU
©2002
TeleDrum - Running Time 25 Minutes in Kiswahili w/English Subtitles
This
film made possible by grants from the FULBRIGHT ALUMNI INITIATIVES
AWARDS PROGRAM and WEST VIRGINIA STATE COLLEGE.TeleDrum is a collaboration
of WEST VIRGINIA STATE COLLEGE and UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM.
Made in cooperation with THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR
COMMUNICATION PROGRAMS, TACAIDS, HEALTHSCOPE TANZANIA AND USAID.
Duara
is an important new film that directs attention in interesting ways
to pressing issues of health, sexuality, HIV-AIDS, education and
young people in Africa. The photography is beautiful, and the film
is edited in a thoughtful and imaginative manner likely to have
a positive impact on attitudes and practices in contemporary African
youth circles. The kind of collaboration between two African and
US university institutions that produced this film holds out a great
deal of promise for nurturing emerging young talent such as Richard
Ndunguru, the director of Duara. An important initiative that needs
to be sustained and expanded. I eagerly look forward to other productions
along these lines.
-
Mbye Cham, Howard University
SOUND
THE DRUM
Sound The Drum is a student production documenting the birth of
TeleDrum through the making of the short-feature film "Duara"
in Tanzania, East Africa. The documentary chronicles the challenges
faced by crews from two dramatically different cultures coming together
in a short period of time to learn filmmaking while trying to produce
a work of global significance.
2002
- Tanzania-USA Documentary Running Time 28 Minutes in English
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