PRESS RELEASE

MEDIA COVERAGE

2019

Best Full Length Documentary ($1000.00)

The City's Champions / David Pradel (83m, USA)
From beginning to end, a journey of glory and pain for a men's basketball team that became a family of brothers and made history for the city of San Diego during the 2016-2017 season. A championship story like no other.

Best Short Documentary ($500.00)

Mis(s) Interpreted / Ayesha Kosaka (5m, USA)
A short film on the suppression of the black female voice. Although society traps black women in a box, we want to express that we can still move past the stereotypes and break through.

Audiences Choice Awards

Lagos, Nigeria (March 20 - 23, 2019)
Awani / Aderonke Adeola (38m, Nigeria)
Sexual Assault of Women, Decolonization of Patriarchy, of the body. Discussion of women’s rights/feminism that lacks in Nigeria, especially having to do with sexual assault. Film is composed of interviews, images, recollections of histories and stories.

Àyán: The Rise of African Female Drummers / Akin Alabi (26m, Nigeria)
Drumming has been, culturally, a men driven art. This film tells the process and path of female talking drummers and how women are gaining more rights.

Bangkok, Thailand (June 14, 2019)
The Dream of El Dorado / Miriam Alexa (12m, Germany, France)
"Coming to Europe for an African is like El Dorado." This is a biographical journey of an African trying to find "home" in France. She tells her experience of acclimating to this culture. A mother tells how this migration has separated her from her children and the hardships she has faced.

Brooklyn, New York (July 4–7, 2019)
Moriri / Mohau Mannathoko (28m, Botswana, South Africa)
A gripping documentary addressing the contentious issue of black hair. The evolution of hair from the pre-colonial era to post-colonial times, looking at the natural hair and weave phenomena.

Skin / Daniel Etim Effiong (80m, Nigeria)
This film explores the hierarchy of skin—light versus dark. It discusses how this has split up communities and identities.

Stellenbosch, South Africa (July 29 – August 4, 2019)
Tegwan's Nest / Loring McAlpin (44m, USA, South Africa)
Tegwan’s Nest brings subtle perspective to race, land, and memory through this unusual story of a South African farm. The film follows the family members and current residents of this farm in South Africa.

Maid in Hell / Søren Klovborg (59m, Denmark)
Women from Africa (Kenya) are being sent to be housemaids in Saudi Arabia with little to no human rights.

Trinidad, Caribbean (September 18–24, 2019)
Emails to My Little Sister / Soloman A. Mekonen (35m, Ethiopia)
Not another-film-about-refugees or “the misery” of Africans, for there is never a single story. *Emails to My Little Sister* is an anthropologically intended film project concerning the phenomenology of Blackness in Berlin. The film, however, takes place in Ethiopia where becoming Black is reflected back on in siblings' email conversations.

Congo – A Political Tragedy / Patrick Kabeya (87m, Congo, Canada)
This is a history-based film telling the political tragedy of Democratic Congo.

2018

Print

An article from “The Histonian,” the student-run publication of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX, “Africa World partners with SHSU.”
The Histonian

An article from On Stl, "Africa World Documentary Film Festival Takes Place at The Missouri History Museum Feb 5-7":
On Stl

An article from We Are Movie Geeks, "9th Annual Africa World Documentary Film Festival at Missouri History Museum Feb 5-7":
We Are Movie Geeks

A review of the documentary “Mully” directed by Scott Haze from We Are Movie Geeks, “Africa World Documentary Film Festival Review :
Mully

A review of the documentary “Obama Mama” directed by Vivian Norris from We Are Movie Geeks, “Africa World Documentary Film Festival Review:
Obama Mama

A review of the documentary “Nascent” directed by Lindsay Branham and Jonathan Kasbe from We Are Movie Geeks, “Africa World Documentary Film Festival Review:
Nascent

An Article from St. Louis Mag, “Urgent Stories: The Africa World Film Festival at the Missouri History Museum”:
Urgent Stories

Radio

St. Louis’s ‘Big 550 KTRS Radio’ interview with Ror Akot, the young Australian based South Sudanese Rapper and the main character of the documentary “ROR” on 02/05/16
Big 550 KTRS Radio

The program director, Professor Niyi Coker’s interview with Radio Arts Foundation on 02/01/16
Radio Arts Foundation

Television

The Program Coordinator, Ephrem Andemariam’s interview with STL TV on 02/01/16

The Program Coordinator, Ephrem Andemariam’s interview with Fox 2 Now on 02/02/16
Fox 2 Now

The Program Coordinator, Ephrem Andemariam’s interview with KPLR 11 News on 02/02/16
KPLR 11