The Estuaries Of The Future 3 part interview series is a collection of stories from contemporary African and diaspora filmmakers, programmers and video artists whose work or approach is influenced by past legacies of making on the continent.
In this episode, Jesse Mpango has a conversation with Yara Costa Pereira. A journalist and director from Mozambique. After living in Angola and South Africa and working in Brazil as a reporter, she decided she wanted to tell the untold stories of Africa and help to counter the negative stereotypes that so often characterize the continent in Western media. In 2009, she received a scholarship to study news and documentary filmmaking at NYU. She made her first film, Why Are They Here? Chinese Stories in Africa, in 2011. After studying at EICTV (International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños) in Cuba, she made The Crossing, a short film about the tensions between Haiti and the Dominican Republic told through the personal story of a 16-year-old Haitian student who jumps the border daily to go to school. Between God & I is Yara’s first feature documentary.
Tendrils was created by East African curators E.N. Mirembe, Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo and Jesse Gerard Mpango under the Art Exchange: Moving Image program, which is a cross-cultural curatorial professional development and exhibition programme for early to mid-career visual arts curators from Sub-Saharan Africa. The programme is managed by LUX, the UK agency that supports and promotes artists working with the moving image on behalf of the British Council. The Sub-Saharan Africa programme is delivered in partnership with Guest Artists Space Foundation in Nigeria
This episode was produced and edited by Sharon Rwakatungu.
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