Making its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival next month, is "Sembene!," the feature documentary on Africa’s most celebrated filmmaker, the late Ousmane Sembene, from co-directors Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman.
Here’s how the filmmakers describe the film: In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. This true story celebrates how the “father of African cinema,” against enormous odds, fought a monumental, 50-year-long battle to give Africans a voice.
Long-time readers of this blog should be familiar with Sembene, given how often we’ve talked about the…
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