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Monday, September 1, 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE



Deadline: September 12, 2014.

This is the first call for papers for a two day conference titled Documenting Africa: Creating Fact or Fiction through the Lens organised by the Africa Media Centre, University of Westminster. This will take place on November 8 and 9, 2014, at the University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London

The keynote speaker will be Pedro Pimenta who has become one of the major players in film co-production in Southern Africa. He started his film career with the National Film Institute of Mozambique in 1977, and co-founded EBANO Multimedia, the first independent production company in Mozambique, which established itself as a significant entity in audio-visual production in the region.

Since then, he has produced, co-produced and line produced numerous short fiction, documentaries and feature films in Mozambique as well as in Angola, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and South Africa. Between 1997 and 2003, Pedro was the Chief Technical Adviser of the UNESCO- Zimbabwe Film & Video Training Project for Southern Africa in Harare, where he conceived and managed various training programs in countries of the sub-region.

Pedro Pimenta consulted with FIAF on the program dealing with African Film Archives and served as a jury member on various international film festivals. He is the founder and director of Dockanema, a documentary film festival in Mozambique.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 12, 2014. Successful applicants will be notified by September 20, 2014. Abstracts should not be more than 300 words long. They must include the title of the conference, presenter's name, affiliation, email and postal address, together with the title of the paper. Please ensure when saving your abstract that your name is part of the file name and it is a word document. Please email your abstract to Helen Cohen, Events Administrator at: journalism@westminster.ac.uk

The fee for registration (which applies to all participants, including presenters) will be £150, with a concessionary rate of £75 for students, to cover all conference documentation, refreshments lunches and administration costs. Registration will open in September 2014.