Vote for this Zimbabwean film!
Zimbabwean filmmaker, Rumbi Katedza’s film, Asylum, is one of only two African entries up for the RCI Migrations People’s Choice Award. The short film is about a Sudanese woman seeking Asylum in the UK. In the process, the horrors of her past life in Darfur keep coming back to haunt her.
Remember it’s a People’s Choice Award. We are the people. For this film to win it needs your vote!
- Click here to visit the website and vote (a map of the world will come up. click on the green dot over Sudan, Africa and the rest is self explanatory)
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Thumbs up for Secret Life of Bees movie
Filed under: Entertainment, Arts & Culture, Film & TV
I watched the preview of the Fox Searchlight movie, The Secret Life of Bees, and I was touched. The movie is pure story (no unnecessary special and sound effects) and its depth reminds of Beloved. It features a great cast, some of the most talented you will see in one movie: Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Keys, Paul Bettany, Hilarie Burton and Nate Parker Lead.
The Secret Life Of Bees, based on the New York Times best selling novel and set in South Carolina in 1964, is the moving tale of Lily Owens (Fanning) a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother (Burton). To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father (Bettany), Lily flees with Rosaleen (Hudson), her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother’s past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters (Latifah, Okonedo and Keys), Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
