Move over, Hepburn and Bogart

From Emergent Africa Mon Sep 8 2014, 17:58:00

Tristan McConnell in the Global Post:

Kenya's filmmakers are upending Hollywood tropes and giving the world a more complex view of their homeland.

VEVE movie trailer from One Fine Day Films on Vimeo.

...Africa in the movies tends to be an exotic backdrop to one of three stories: white romance (Out of Africa, The African Queen), white heroism (Blood Diamond, The Constant Gardener, Tears of the Sun, The Ghost and the Darkness), or, occasionally, black heroism (Hotel Rwanda).

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