500 YEARS LATER
I was sent a copy of the DVD 500 Years Later, this week. When I have watched it over the holidays I will review it on the blackhistoryblog. The email below gives some more details and proposes links with the 200th anniversary commemorations:
Greetings
We are producers of an epic multi award winning film, 500 Years Later, which documents the legacy and history of African enslavement. The documentary was filmed in five continents and spans topics from education to reparations to self-image. We Also run www.africanholocaust.net , African Holocaust is an authentic study of African history and hosts some writings by some of the Africa and African Diaspora’s foremost academics and thinkers.
We would like to find a way of working this film into whatever projects and programs you have for the 2007 bicentenary commemoration of the abolishment of slavery. We believe one aspect slavery that still lingers is the inability for people of African decent to demonstrate agency in the telling of their own story. Many projects still bear non-African authorship and this we believe is a contradiction and a violation of self-determination. 500 Years Later is a film production made by people of African decent about the journey of people of African decent.
Let us begin a true multicultural dialogue where ethnic minorities are agents and not passive viewers within their own history.
In Peace
Askia Ocacia
#Posted 19 December 2006 at 11:24 AM
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