BAFTA nominated film comes to Warminster

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By Victoriaco | Sunday, January 02, 2011, 18:12

A film directed by a couple from Brixton Deverill and nominated last year for a BAFTA award will be shown in Warminster later this month.

 Mugabe and the White African" is described as "an intimate and

moving feature-length documentary, charting one family's extraordinary

courage in the face of a relentless campaign of state-sanctioned

 terror."

 It tells the story of a white

farmer who challenges President Mugabe's Land Reform programme by

taking him to court. Filmed over 12 months,  it is directed by

Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson from Brixton Deverill.

Since being nominated for the BAFTA award, the film has gone on to win several more awards over the past few

months, including the prestigious Prix Italia and the Grierson award

for best cinema documentary 2010.  It is currently on release in cinemas

in the USA and France,

The documentary film is being shown at the Athenaeum Centre on Wednesday 12th January at 7.30 pm - tickets £5.

      

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  • Profile image for CAllard

    Regarding the schedule screening of "Mugabe and the White African" I doubt very much if the people goign to the Athenaeum Centre would still sympathise with the white farmer and his family after watching them online.
    They show they real colours in their own series on youtube particularly the "interview" of Mike Campbell where he tells it like he sees it "if they want to eat they need to have white farmers":

    Zimbabwe White farmers (Pt 4&5)
    http://tinyurl.com/334u9ka

    The land where are the farms was grabbed by Mike Campbell from South Africa in 1974, in the middle of the guerrilla war against the black majority, just four years before the infamous white supremacist Ian Smith unilaterally yielded to international pressure to end white minority rule. Original Rhodesian white farmers have now all left or have complied with the land reform.

    This family claim that they are victims of racial attacks but do not say where they really come from. A South African army and the son of a British Empire military officer, the two men are men from the past, from another century straight from the British establishment to rule the world.

    Christian Allard
    24 Farepark Crescent
    Westhill
    Aberdeenshire
    AB32 6WH

    By CAllard at 13:40 on 03/01/11

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