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Sembène!
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- Summary
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Ousmane Sembène was a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout who became the self-taught father of African cinema who fought enormous odds to return African stories to Africa.
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- Creator
- Impact Partners ; New Mexico Media Partners ; a film by Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman ; producers, Jason Silverman and Samba Gadjigo ; a Galle Ceddo Projects production ; written and directed by Samba Gadijgo and Jason Silverman
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Languages
- English, French
- Contributors
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- Gadjigo, Samba, 1954- film director, screenwriter, film producer, on-screen participant
- Silverman, Jason, 1968- film director, screenwriter, film producer
- Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007, on-screen participant
- Sembène, Alain, on-screen participant
- Myhr, Ken, composer (expression)
- Impact Partners (Firm)
- New Mexico Media Partners (Firm)
- Galle Ceddo Projects, LLC
- Kino Lorber, Inc.
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2016]
- Physical Details
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- 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- OCLC
- ocn944261656
- Credits
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- With: Samba Gadjigo, Alain Sembène. Includes archival footage of Ousmane Sambène
- Editor, Ricardo Acosta ; original music, Ken Myhr ; animations, Edwina White, James Dunlap
- Originally released as a documentary film in 2015.
- NTSC, region 1; widescreen format (1:78:1, 16 x 9); 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereo.
- Special features: Making of Moolaadé (2005); On Sembène: reflections from Angela Davis, Youssou N'Dour, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Cheikh Hamidou Kane and more; Samba's childhood; Sembène for the people: a film screening in Senegal; trailer.
- DVD, NTSC; region 1; 16:9 presentation; Dolby digital 5.1 and 2.0 soundtracks.
- English and French dialogue; optional English subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
Subjects
- Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007.
- Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Motion picture producers and directors -- Senegal -- Biography.
- Motion pictures -- Africa -- History.
- Motion picture producers and directors -- Senegal -- History and criticism.
- Senegalese fiction (French) -- Black authors.
- Artists -- Senegal -- History and criticism.
- Postcolonialism in literature.