It Must Make Peace, Tapi! & Contradict

As part of the Q&A series of the 10th Norient Film Festival 2021, the directors Paul Chandler (It Must Make Peace, Mali 2017), Jim Chuchu (Tapi!, Kenya 2020) and Thomas Burkhalter and Peter Guyer (Contradict: Ideas for a New World, Switzerland/Ghana 2020) came together and talked about their films. The session was moderated by radio moderator and activist Nana Akosua Hanson.

A conversation between the four directors and Nana Akosua Hanson about the connection and common theme of the three documentaries: music as a means of expression. With the increasing influence of extremists, the effects of the pandemic, and a global neoliberal music business, the work of artists is becoming increasingly difficult. Each documentary tells in its own way the process of capturing the voices of music artists and their struggle to be heard.

Cut: MR LU*
Production: Christopher Blatter


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This video is part of the Q&A program of the 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. The talk was recorded on January 29, 2021, via Zoom.

Biography

Nana Akosua Hanson is a writer, journalist, actress and a feminist activist in Ghana. She has worked for seven years in radio and TV and runs Drama Queens, a non-profit theatre organization, which has feminism and pan-Africanism as its core defining values. Drama Queens seeks to centre women’s stories through theatre and aims to contribute to a cultural revolution by having the necessary conversations through Public Conversations called Speakeasies and sex education workshops. In 2016, Hanson was part of the Mandela Washington Fellow in President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative. Follow her on Instagram, and LinkedIn.

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Published on May 19, 2021

Last updated on May 19, 2021

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