Mugabe and the White African +Q&A with director Lucy Bailey

2009/UK/Dir Lucy Bailey & Andrew Thompson

We are delighted host the first Q&A screening of the award-winning documentary and welcome Lucy Bailey to discuss her experiences making the film alongside Andrew Thompson.

Shot covertly in Zimbabwe amidst a climate of political unrest where being caught would have meant imprisonment, the film has already won Best Documentary – British Independent Film Awards, and is hotly tipped for an Academy Award in 2010.

Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous 2008 presidential election, the film follows white farmer Michael Campbell’s harrowing attempt to take Mugabe to an international court for racism and violation of their human rights. Since 2000, formerly thriving farms that employed thousands, now sit derelict while poverty and hunger are rife amongst the majority of the country’s citizens; but 74-year-old Mike refuses to back down. It is an unprecedented case, upon which rests not only Mike and his family’s future, but also the future of millions of ordinary Zimbabweans who continue to suffer at the hands of one of the world’s most infamous tyrants.

 ‘The most wonderful film…’ The Times

‘Thought- provoking, distressing, shockingly tense and always very sad, it is surely one of the best documentaries of the year.’ Time Out

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