BAFTA nominated film comes to Warminster
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.
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Anrew Thompson and Lucy Bailey from Brixton Deverill, directors of "Mugabe and the White African".
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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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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