‘Mugabe and the White African’ wins award for World Feature at SILVERDOCS
June 24th, 2009
From the SILVERDOCS website:
This year’s SILVERDOCS Sterling Award for a World Feature goes to MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN directed by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson, which explores, through the lens of a 74-year-old white farmer, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s deeply controversial land seizure program, which intended to re-distribute white-owned farmland. The director will receive $10,000 cash.
The Jury noted: “The three of us on the International Jury have very different backgrounds, sensitivities and outlooks. But all three of us were totally unanimous in our verdict. Our chosen film displays a moral conviction which grew from the vision behind it, became an integral part of the trusting relationship between the contributors and the filmmakers, and that powerfully elevates a resonant story to a global stage. We want to commend the filmmaking team for the physical risks they took in their relentless pursuit of this story, and for having the wisdom and humility to simply give their characters the freedom to intimately express anguish, doubt and resolve.” (Link to SILVERDOCS website).
Read more about this documentary on our earlier blog here: “Mugabe and the White African”
Archived blogs on Mount Carmel Farm
- Tonight is going to be a tense night: an update on Mount Carmel Farm – 11 June 2009
- Invasion into our house – Ben Freeth – 28 May 2009
- Flagrant violation of the rule of law on Mount Carmel farm – 16 April 2009
- “Mugabe and the White African” – 3 April 2009
- Zimbabwean farm evictions escalate despite the GPA – 18 March 2009
- CIO operative tells farm owners that the ‘President is the law’ - 10 March 2009
- Invasion of Mount Carmel Farm, Chegutu area, Mashonaland West – 25 February 2009
- SADC Tribunal to deliver landmark judgement on Zim farmers’ test case – 28 November 2008
- Zanu-PF regime’s legal team walks out of the SADC Tribunal hearing – 18 July 2008
- Zimbabwean farm hearing due tomorrow in Windhoek: considered a test case for the rule of law in the SADC region – 15 July 2008
- Abducted and tortured while Mugabe was being inaugurated – 30 June 2008
- Updated 30 June ~ 10.15 – Action Alert : Farm attacks taking place in Chegutu today – 29 June 2008
