Jason Silverman
Samba Gadjigo
Jason Silverman
Samba Gadjigo
Abdoul Aziz Cisse
Allison Humanek
Cliff Charles
Ricardo Acosta
<p>Galle Ceddo Projects
[email protected]</p>
2014
United States, Senegal
88 min
Color, Black & White
When Ousmane Sembene first picked up a movie camera in the early 1960’s, during the heady days of early African independence, African culture was disappearing under the deluge of European stories. SEMBENE! celebrates a sixth-grade dropout who fought a 50-year battle to return African stories to Africa. Using an innovative weave of gorgeous handcrafted animation and new and archival footage, this true-life epic follows as an ordinary man transforms himself into a pioneering freedom fighter who used storytelling as a weapon for resistance and cultural renewal.
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