Zimbabwean Community Show The Film Flame at Sumac Centre
Bill | 06.06.2008 08:50
FLAME
She was the flame they could never put out
Shot in Zimbabwe with an entirely Zimbabwean cast, Flame is about a woman soldier in the War of Liberation in Zimbabwe - the story of the battle over land which is still causing upheavals in Zimbabwe today. Based on accounts of women who joined the Liberation War, this powerful fiction film arouses emotions and controversy wherever it is shown.
http://www.zimmedia.com/flame/
director Ingrid Sinclair
Zimbabwe (1996) 90mins
Language - English
at Sumac Centre
245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields
Wednesday
Organised by Nottingham Zimbabwean Community Network
Admission is Free, but a donation to Nottingham Zimbabwean Community Network, is welcome
http://www.zimmedia.com/flame/
She was the flame they could never put out
Shot in Zimbabwe with an entirely Zimbabwean cast, Flame is about a woman soldier in the War of Liberation in Zimbabwe - the story of the battle over land which is still causing upheavals in Zimbabwe today. Based on accounts of women who joined the Liberation War, this powerful fiction film arouses emotions and controversy wherever it is shown.
http://www.zimmedia.com/flame/ director Ingrid Sinclair
Zimbabwe (1996) 90mins
Language - English
at Sumac Centre
245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields
Wednesday
Organised by Nottingham Zimbabwean Community Network
Admission is Free, but a donation to Nottingham Zimbabwean Community Network, is welcome
http://www.zimmedia.com/flame/
Zimbabwe past and present.
Flame is the first and only feature film about the Zimbabwean War of Liberation. It is the story of two young women Flame and Liberty. It was the first Zimbabwean Film to be selected for Cannes. When it came out the police came to seize the negative, the war vets demanded that the producer be jailed and they threatened to burn the cinemas if it ever screened in Zimbabwe.
“My aim is to put African women in a different light. A more universal light,” says Ingrid Sinclair, the scriptwriter and director of FLAME.. “Many films about African women show them as victims, courageously struggling and supporting each other when they can - born to die as slaves of circumstance. In other words, different from women in developed countries. I want to throw a light on a wider range: their loves, and hopes, their failings, their stubbornness, their vanity, even their cruelty - women as full human beings with every nuance and shade of emotion.”
FLAME is the story of two young girls, Florence and Nyasha, who in 1975 secretly decide to join the Freedom Fighters. Florence hoping to find one of the charismatic commanders, Danger, and Nyasha expecting to get a study scholarship. They embark on the long and dangerous journey across a war torn Rhodesia to a military camp deep in the Mozambican bush where they take their war names of Flame and Liberty. Slowly their innocence begins to crack as the reality of war seeps in. Flame is raped by her commander. The story continues past the heady days when the war has ended to 1992 when the two women met up again and realise they still have a common aim - to keep their hard won independence.
However, Sinclair emphasises that FLAME is less a war film than a film about women: “it will primarily appeal to the emotions, though it takes place against a historical background. The style therefore reflects these two qualities.” The executive producer, Simon Bright elaborates: “It is a personal story that lies at the base of the wars that have been raging through our region in the last thirty years.”
Flame was the first co-production between Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nambia and France breaking ground in unifying talent and resources.
http://www.zimmedia.com/flame/
Flame is the first and only feature film about the Zimbabwean War of Liberation. It is the story of two young women Flame and Liberty. It was the first Zimbabwean Film to be selected for Cannes. When it came out the police came to seize the negative, the war vets demanded that the producer be jailed and they threatened to burn the cinemas if it ever screened in Zimbabwe.
“My aim is to put African women in a different light. A more universal light,” says Ingrid Sinclair, the scriptwriter and director of FLAME.. “Many films about African women show them as victims, courageously struggling and supporting each other when they can - born to die as slaves of circumstance. In other words, different from women in developed countries. I want to throw a light on a wider range: their loves, and hopes, their failings, their stubbornness, their vanity, even their cruelty - women as full human beings with every nuance and shade of emotion.”
FLAME is the story of two young girls, Florence and Nyasha, who in 1975 secretly decide to join the Freedom Fighters. Florence hoping to find one of the charismatic commanders, Danger, and Nyasha expecting to get a study scholarship. They embark on the long and dangerous journey across a war torn Rhodesia to a military camp deep in the Mozambican bush where they take their war names of Flame and Liberty. Slowly their innocence begins to crack as the reality of war seeps in. Flame is raped by her commander. The story continues past the heady days when the war has ended to 1992 when the two women met up again and realise they still have a common aim - to keep their hard won independence.
However, Sinclair emphasises that FLAME is less a war film than a film about women: “it will primarily appeal to the emotions, though it takes place against a historical background. The style therefore reflects these two qualities.” The executive producer, Simon Bright elaborates: “It is a personal story that lies at the base of the wars that have been raging through our region in the last thirty years.”
Flame was the first co-production between Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nambia and France breaking ground in unifying talent and resources.
http://www.zimmedia.com/flame/
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