The 3rd Annual Tri Continental Film Festival (formerly known as 3 Continents Film Festival) hits South Africa's shores again this September. The festival will run from the beginning of September over 3 weeks in Johannesburg and Cape Town with an extensive outreach countrywide. The festival showcases outstanding cinema from the transglobal South raising social and political consciousness through narrative, documentary, feature and short length films from the 3 continents of Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Uhuru Productions again spearheads the festival this year in cooperation with an international and national network of filmmakers, activists, collectives, ngo's, festivals, sponsors and others committed to critical cinema of the South. The Movimiento de Documentalistas, a group of independent filmmakers based in Argentina, held the first 3 Continents Film Festival in Argentina in 2002. They will again host the festival later this year in November in Caracas, Venezuela (at the completion of the South African leg). Last year, the festival traveled to India for the first time with screenings in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata in December. Further, the festival remains networked with the Human Rights Film Network launched in Prague last year. These initiatives and affiliations only help to expand the festival, sustain an international vision of solidarity, and provide the highest quality selection of films for local audiences.
This year's festival will again explore issues of human rights and social justice including in particular stories of women and children.
While the culture of militarism and greed seek to dominate our political-economic landscape, 3 Continents challenges filmmakers of the global South and those committed to telling stories from embattled communities in the Americas, Africa and Asia to present us with alternative windows to a different kind of world. In this regard, Tri Continental Film Festival is committed to promoting a human rights culture in South Africa that respects the equal rights of all regardless of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, age, disability and those categories enshrined in the Constitution.
For those interested in submitting films for this year's festival, please visit the 3 Continents website at www.3continentsfestival.co.za for entry forms rules and regulations.
For any further information about the festival please contact Festival Directors, Karam Singh on 073 204 1297 or Rehad Desai on 083 997 9204. Alternatively, Zivia Desai Keiper, Festival Administrator, can be reached on (021) 788 5462.
Zivia Desai Keiper
TRI CONTINENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
27 Palmer Road
Muizenberg, 7945
Cape Town
Tel: +27 21 788 5462
Fax: +27 21 788 5469
Cell: +27 84 526 1155
Posted on Thursday 14 Apr 2005
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