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Hotel Rwanda: All You Need to Know
The quiet heroism of one man, Paul Rusesabagina (Don Checidle), during the Rwandan Genocide. Directed by Irish film maker Terry George, it was produced in 2004 together with Canadian, British, Italian and South African companies, and the first of its kind-produced together with the rival independent film studios, Lions Gate Films and United Artists. It…
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Rwandan Life Outside Kigali City
Rwanda is most popular for its historic genocide –the civil war that took place in the space of just 100 days but left nearly a million lives dead and thousands homeless. A safari to Rwanda allows you to explore more than Kigali capital city. Life outside Kigali is equally amazing with tourists having plenty of…
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Leo DiCaprio Teams With Netflix on Endangered Gorillas Documentary
Leonardo DiCaprio, a famous and legendary actor is coming to Netflix — but not in the way you might expect. The actor is teaming up with the streaming giant to release Virunga, a documentary aimed at protecting the Virunga from oil companies that want to drill the oil from the gorilla park. Directed by Orlando…
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Welcome to Hillywood: How Rwanda’s Film Industry Emerged from Genocide’s Shadow
Eric Kabera was sitting by the pool at Kigali’s Mille Collines hotel when he decided to make Rwanda’s first feature film. It was 1997, the influx of foreign journalists had slowed and his work as a fixer had dropped off. A Rwandan Tutsi who had spent most of his life in exile in Goma, eastern…
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Rwanda Film Festival with Bill Clinton and Paul Kagame
Emily and I hung out with Bill Clinton the other night. “Hung out” being relative, I mean we were in the same room. It was a pretty small room, though. Yet as interesting as Bill Clinton is, he was just one of many profound characters there that night. Emily had invited me to a Tribeca…
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Rwanda Rising: Rwanda Documentary to open US Black gala
The premiere of the documentary Rwanda Rising has been selected to open the 15th annual Pan African Film and Arts Festival (PAFF), recognized globally as America’s leading Black film festival. The star-studded event will be held Thursday, February 8 at the Directors Guild of America with among others, producer Ambassador Andrew Young and acclaimed filmmaker…
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Making Sense: A Rwandan Story by Helen Wilson
Making Sense: A Rwandan Story is a moving exhibition of paintings, poems and music inspired by the artist Helen Wilson a made visit to Rwanda in 2002. The new work shows the beauty of Rwanda and the resilience of its people in the aftermath of a genocide that claimed the lives of one million people…
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100 Days in Rwanda
A local Hutu official is persuaded to begin implementing the Government’s policy against the Tutsi: to completely wipe them out. Josette, a beautiful young Tutsi girl and her family struggle to survive the killing and take refuge in a Church supposedly protected by the UN forces. Meanwhile, her brother is hunted down and murdered and…
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Some Time in April Film premieres in Rwanda
A film starkly portraying genocide in Rwanda, in which 800 000 died a decade ago, received its world premiere in Kigali on the weekend in a stadium where thousands had sought refuge during the slaughter in the central African state. “Sometimes in April” was shown on a giant screen on Saturday evening in the Rwandan…
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The Circuit Screens Films that Lack Distribution
A pair of players on the area film scene, programmer David Kleiler and producer Laura Bernieri, have helped to launch the Circuit, a plan to showcase films that have won a festival audience but failed to secure distribution. The first Circuit offering will be “Gift of the Game,” a documentary about Cuban baseball by local…