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.
For more information visit http://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/a-z/africa-media-centre
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