MiradasDoc 2017

MiradasDoc is an International Documentary Film Festival of the South that aims to establish a perspective on the social health of the planet through documentary film. One of its main interests is the presence of documentary films, documentary filmmakers and representatives of African culture at the event.

It is for these reasons that Casa África has been collaborating with this festival since 2007, to enhance the presence in Spain of documentary cinema and of African documentary film makers.

This Festival and International Documentary Film Market, MiradasDoc, celebrates its eleventh year in Tenerife from 27 January 27 to 4 February 2017 (the Market will take place from 31 January to 1 February).

As part of the Festival, in 2016 MiradasDoc organised a pitching opportunity where a committee of experts selected a number of international projects to be presented before a panel of financiers and given access to 4 awards. This year, Casa África is again collaborating in this important documentary film event, making funds available to African projects that want to participate.

The project selection committee chose four African projects (three of them led by women):

• My Normal Kenyan Family, by Ng'endo Mukii [Kenya, Ng'endo Mukii Films, 85 min.]
  A full-length animated documentary about the history of Kenya over the past 50 years through the life of the film-maker’s family.
• The Other Half of the African Sky, by Tapiwa Chipfupa [Zimbabwe, Mahaka Media, 90 min.]
  Women in Zimbabwe as seen through one filmmaker and her family conflicts
• Sur la route du plaisir, by Angèle Diabang [Senegal, Karoninka, 90 min.]
  Sexuality and African women’s rights to pleasure
• WeOwnTV, by Arthur Pratt [Sierra Leona, Survivors, 84 min.]
  Following a medical team during the outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone

Casa África is working with MiradasDoc to enable the attendance at the Festival of the Kenyan director Ng'endo Mukii, whose film was produced by Guadalupe Arensburg, author of the book about African cinema published by Casa África

At MiradasDoc, Ng'endo, Tapiwa and Angèle are going to organise a screening of African films made by women with their previously completed work (documentaries and short documentaries, of approximately 4 hours. The screening is entitled New African documentary makers