America Street

  • America Street
Genre : Drama
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2020
Format : Feature
Running time : 74 (in minutes)

The film delicately unfolds the sad picture of the city of Charleston through the bitter memories, broken dreams and dull anger of Joe Watson, a neighbourhood grocer. His shop becomes, through his testimony and that of his customers, a recording chamber of the memory of a black community filled with anger against institutions (police, schools, real estate) corrupted by segregationism and racial hatred. This is where the death of Walter Scott, killed by a police officer, shown on video, gave impetus to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Tahar Chikhaoui (From the catalogue of the Festival des cinémas d'Afrique des Pays ('Apt).



DIRECTOR :Idrissou Mora Kpaï
Screenplay: Idrissou Mara-Kpaï.
Image: Idrissou Mara-Kpaï.
Editing: Misha Mehrel, Isabelle Stroll.
Sound: Shawn Jackson.
Production: Idrissou Mara-Kpaï (Independent).

Filmography: Traces of a Mother, 2011. Arlit, the Second Paris, 2005. Si-Gueriki, the
Queen Mother, 2002. Fake soldier, 1999. Transient, 1996.

A film by Idrissou Mora Kpaï selected for the FIDMarseille 2021

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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