‘Women Here and Now’ at the Brazil-Mozambique Cultural Centre in Maputo
Documentary: Speak up/Make your way by Amandine Gay
11:47 CAT | 22 February 2019
Documentary: Speak up/Make your way by Amandine Gay
Date and Time: Monday, March 4 2019 at 19h00
Duration: 129 minutes
Entrance: Free
Address: Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Av. Samora Machel, no. 468
About the documentary:
Ouvrir La Voix (Speak up/Make your way) focuses on our common identities: "woman" and "black", whilst highlighting the diversity of Afropean diasporas. This documentary explores the intersections of discrimination, art and blackness. This documentary is about black women reclaiming the narrative.
This is a documentary about francophone European black women from the diaspora. Showcasing art performances and compelling storytelling from those who are usually spoken of or spoken for. Focuses on our common experience related to our minority status in predominantly white ex-colonial countries, while highlighting the great diversity of our Afropean communities. This documentary aims at bringing to light our existence at the crossroad of multiple discrimination that go way beyond our "black women" status.
About Amandine Gay:
Amandine GAY is a Montreal-based Afro feminist filmmaker, activist, and journalist. Following her graduation from the Institute of Political Science in Lyon with a masters in communication, Amandine GAY joined the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris 16 and began performing in theatre, film and television.
Since 2012, Amandine has been working as a screenwriter, making her directorial debut with her documentary, Ouvrir La Voix [Speak Up/Make Your Way], a feature-length Afro feminist documentary on European Black francophone women.
She is also a contributor to the information website, Slate.fr. Most recently, Amandine authored the preface of the first French translation of bell hooks' seminal, Ain't I A Woman. Amandine is lives in Montreal, completing her second master's degree in sociology, focusing on trans-racial adoption.
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