DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT MULTICULTURAL FILM DIRECTORS AVAILABLE FROM THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL. DEVOTION (85 min./Color/2000) Director: Barbara Hammer Devotion investigates the extremely complex and hierarchical relationships among a loyal group of filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years making films for one man - Ogawa Shinsuke. These heartbreaking and sometimes funny stories have never been told on film before. Rare footage, stills, and diaries from archives as well as interviews with Oshima Nagisa and Robert Kramer make this historical inquiry visually exciting and valuable. SEMBENE: THE MAKING OF AFRICAN CINEMA (60 min./Color/1994) Director: Manthia Diawara This rich documentary follows the legendary Senegalese filmmaker Sembene Ousmane from the Pan African Film Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso back to the streets of Dakar and his Galle Ceddo home at Yoff, overlooking the sea. Revisiting several locations of his films, Sembene Ousmane reminisces about his career and discusses his craft. THE CINEMATIC JAZZ OF JULIE DASH (26 min./Color/1992) Director: Yvonne Welbon This is an in-depth interview with filmmaker Julie Dash, whose first feature film, Daughters of the Dust, became a critical success. Here, Dash discusses the trials and triumphs of two decades of filmmaking by African American women. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Afua Kafi-Akua Third World Newsreel 545 8th Avenue, 10th floor New York, NY 10018 (212) 947-9277 ext 308 (212) 594-6417/Fax E-Mail: [log in to unmask] www.twn.org ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html