Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema

Kuxa Kanema - O Nascimento do Cinema

Portugal

2003

52 Min

Color, Black and White

Portuguese

Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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PROD Maria João Mayer, François d'Artemare

ED Isabelle Rathery, Timothy Miller

The first cultural act of the nascent Mozambique Government after independence in 1975 was to create the National Institute of Cinema (INC). The new president Samora Machel had a strong awareness of the power of the image, and understood he needed to use this power to build a socialist nation. INC’s goal was to film the people, and to deliver these images back to the people.—Icarus films

Director

Margarida Cardoso

Margarida Cardoso (Portugal, 1963) received her diploma in Image and Audiovisual communication from the Antonio Arroio School. Between 1983 and 1996 she worked as a script editor and assistant director on more than 40 Portugese and international films. Dois dragoes (1996, short), A terra vista das nuvens (1997, doc), Entre Nós (1999, short), Natal 71 (2000, doc), Com Quase Nada (2001, doc), Mozambique, journal d’une indépendance – Kuxa Kanema (2003, doc), A costa dos murmúrios (2004), Viuvas (2005, doc) —insomnia-sales.com