Sunday School
Sunday School is an encounter between two female film makers. Joanna Arong Vasquez is a documentary maker from the Philippines who has lived and worked in Beijing for several years. Her films are complex and meticulous and demonstrate a sharp eye for social processes and situations. She has made films about the many economic and cultural changes in today’s China, such as the full-length documentary Neo-Lounge, about the colourful night life of Beijing.
For this project Arong Vasquez went to Zambia to make a portrait of the Zambian film maker Musola Cathrine Kaseketi, who has made documentaries and short films. This programme also includes Kaseketi’s first full-length feature, Suwi.
The life story of Kaseketi is fascinating and impressive and makes much about the situation and developments in her country clear. She became handicapped as a child and, thanks to a heartless stepmother, had an even more difficult childhood. The perseverance needed for her to grow into a prominent film maker has evoked great respect in her surroundings.
For Sunday School, the two directors went back to the places where Kaseketi grew up and went to school. As a result, the film gives an unusual picture of traditional life in Zambia, but also of the present situation. Zambia is among the poorest societies in the world and is a country where very little can be taken for granted – certainly not making idiosyncratic films.
Te zien in deze verzamelprogramma's
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Forget Africa: Musola’s Portrait
Remarkable Zambian director Musola Cathrine Kaseketi’s feature film and a film portrait of her by an equally remarkable film maker.
Film details
- Productielanden
- China, Philippines, Zambia
- Jaar
- 2010
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2010
- Lengte
- 45'
- Medium/Formaat
- HDcam
- Taal
- English
- Première status
- World premiere
- Director
- Joanna Vasquez Arong
- Producer
- Joanna Vasquez Arong
- Screenplay
- Joanna Vasquez Arong
- Cinematography
- Joanna Vasquez Arong
- Editing
- Joanna Vasquez Arong
- Music
- Cedric Murrath
- Production company
- Old Fool Films, Ltd.
- Sales / World rights holder
- Old Fool Films, Ltd.
- Distributor NL / Benelux rights holder
- International Film Festival Rotterdam