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Africa first. Volume one.

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 11337658Language: English, French, Wolof Original language: English, French, Wolof Subtitle language: English Publisher: Universal City, CA : Focus Features, [2011]Distributor: [California] : Focus World Copyright date: ©2011Edition: WidescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

Other title:

Africa first. Vol. 1

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

791.4375 23

LOC classification:

PN1997.2 .A333 2011

Contents:

Pumzi / Inspired Minority Pictures ; by Wanuri Kahiu (22 min., South Africa, Kenya) -- Un transporte en commun = Saint Louis blues / Andalfi présente ; written and directed by Dyana Gaye (48 min., France, Senegal) -- Tunnel / by Jenna Bass (25 min., South Africa) -- Abyss boys / Jan-Hendrik Beetge (26 min., South Africa).

Production credits:

Director, Wanuri Kahiu, Dyana Gaye, Jenna Bass, Jan-Hendrik Beetge.

Cast: In Pumzi: Kudzani Moswela (Asha), Nicole Bailey (Binti).Summary: Short films from some of Africa's most compelling new talent. Pumzi: A futuristic film set in Nairobi, Kenya where the outdoors is extinct and has been outlawed. Saint Louis blues (also called N'Dar): A musical about a cross-country trip through Senegal in a battered taxi, as passengers sing their stories. The tunnel: In a small village in Zimbabwe terrorized by soldiers just after independence, a little girl creates a fantasy where her father escapes to freedom through a tunnel. The abyss boys: Two brothers who are abalone poachers in a South African fishing village try to escape their lives--but trying to escape causes their own destruction.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-03469 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050310718

Wide screen (aspect ratio 16:9).

All four movies originally released in 2009.

DVD-R ; NTSC; region 1 ; aspect ratio 16:9 ; Dolby digital 2.0.

Dialogue in English, French, Wolof, and possibly other languages; subtitles in English.

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