Review
The burden of telling important stories usually burns in ways that tempt creatives to turn them without paying attention to the form. This is even more complicated if the important story is one of pain. In the process of emphasizing the importance, in ensuring the audience gets the emotions, the work is prone to turning […]
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Review
Andy Jones’ I Shot Bi Kidude is split in two by an examination of how Bi Kidude went missing after the appearance of her brother on national television. Before that, the documentary is about the making of Jones’ debut feature film, As Old As My Tongue, which is also about the woman described at the time as the […]
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Review
The format of the modern romantic comedy is well known: the meet-cute, the teasing period, the alignment of the stars, the rise of obstacles/fall of obstacles, the happy ending. But these seemingly formulaic stories still get told because we love them, and because they’re an easy way into a culture, both to celebrate it and […]
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Gallery
The 2016 Lights, Camera, Africa!!! film festival has come and gone. But we have saved some of the memories. See below for photos.
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