Travelling film festival heads to Bay
STUDENTS, civil society, film-lovers and residents of Nelson Mandela Bay have the opportunity of watching films with a difference, with the TriContinental Travelling Film Festival coming to the Bay across four locations from Monday.
The TriContinental Travelling Film Festival presents a four-day run of social impact films in venues across Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage.
Established in 2002, the festival has screened powerful films from South Africa and across the globe, exploring some of the most urgent local and global issues of our time.
The focus of this year’s festival is on youth and politics and includes three South African films, among them Ryley Grunenwald’s The Shore Break – a story of an Eastern Cape community who are fighting a battle against titanium mining.
Then there are films like Maanda Ntsandeni’s Parole Camp, and the international film Dreamcatcher by Kim Longinotto, that tells the story of how a sex worker changed her life and helped members of the community change theirs.
Festival director Annita Khanna said impact cinema was all about people asking what they could do to assist social change.
Partnering with the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training, the festival opens at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University’s Missionvale Campus on Monday.
Director of the centre, Ivor Baatjes, said they had been in discussion with the production company about setting up screenings in PE.
Baatjes said that the Centre for Post-School Education and Training, had been building up a small library of documentaries because “visitors, [who attended screenings two years ago] had clearly stated a need for these types of movies and we’re also trying to get people off the Holly- wood diet and entertainment-like documentaries”.
The first screening takes place with Citizen Four at 5.30pm at the Missionvale Campus conference centre; A screening of Dreamcatcher takes place on Tuesday at 4pm at the Lovelife Centre in Tize Street, in Kwanobuhle.
On Wednesday at 2pm there will be a showing of Dreamcatcher and Pa- role Camp at 5pm at Famhealth Medipark in Gelvandale.
The Shore Break will be playing at 2pm and at 5pm at Soweto-On-Sea’s Multi-Purpose Centre and the last screening will be Democrats next Friday at 6pm at the South End Museum.
For more information visit
www.tcff.org.za