It's a revenge thriller where a mother turns into a ruthless vigilante, tracking down and drowning a soldier who has killed her baby, in an explosi...
Kenyan filmmaker Voline Ogutu poses for a photocall at the films' premiereIt's a revenge thriller where a mother turns into a ruthless vigilante, tracking down and drowning a soldier who has killed her baby, in an explosion of violence and jubilation.
"It's the revenge of a young girl, left to her own devices and yet who is going to smash up everything," said French producer Pape Boye, who served as a"mentor" to the director and praises the"jubilant violence" of the film. "Each time there was a film that reminded us of how poor we were or how bad situation the situation was, it was kind of like a no-no," he told AFP in a telephone interview."I am more about entertainment. That's the model I follow."Loukman Ali was chosen by the scheme last year, among 2,000 pitches received by UNESCO and Netflix, to direct his short film, with funding of some $75,000 dollars.
But Steven Markovitz, the executive producer of the joint Netflix and UNESCO project, said dozens of young emerging African directors were challenging ideas of a"traditional" African film.He said that in the 1970s and 80s, slower-paced African films on sober subjects were dominant. "They are more about asserting their identity in the present and the future. There's a philosophical shift amongst this generation, and that's why they're a lot more free in their thinking in the telling."Tendeka Matatu, of Netflix Africa, said that there was now even a"golden age" of African filmmaking.
But this remains a modest figure compared to the 1.7 billion Africans, because hundreds of millions still have neither a sufficiently good internet connection nor the means to subscribe to a platform.
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