Cultural Healing in Sudan
IntroductionFilm Project Cultural Healing
In September 2010 Concordis began work on a Cultural Healing programme, which will last until March 2013. The programme involves training people from a wide range of backgrounds within Sudan to make films that express their own culture and traditions. Eight groups will be assisted to make films lasting 5 minutes in length. From these, 4 teams will be selected and each will make a 30 minute documentary film. Upon completion, the films will be disseminated through television and other media.
The aim of the programme is to bring about greater understanding among the people of Sudan of the diverse range of cultures within Sudan and South Sudan, and in so doing to contribute to the healing of wounds suffered during many years of civil war. The programme will contribute to the development of film-making capacity in Sudan and South Sudan and build the capacity of our local partner, Nasaq Journalism Training Centre, which will be involved in the training of these new film-makers. This is an exciting project that will creatively promote healing through the documenting and sharing of different cultural perspectives at a crucial stage of the development of both Sudan and South Sudan.
The Sudan Cultural Healing programme is based on a concept developed by British-Sudanese filmmaker Taghreed Elsanhouri, who is acting as Artistic Director for the programme.
The European Union has generously financed 90% of the cost of the programme. We are now looking for donors to contribute the final 10% of the financing of this important and innovative project.
Partnerships
Taghreed Elsanhouri & Nasaq Journalism Training Centre
British-Sudanese filmmaker Taghreed Elsanhouri will be assisting Concordis International as the Artistic Director. Taghreed has a very strong track record in film production and direct film-making experience in Sudan of four films. She will take a leading role in the design of training content and in overseeing the training and artistic and editorial quality of the films that are made through the programme. The training programme will jointly be executed with our local partner Nasaq. Nasaq runs training courses for journalists and has recently due to popular demand introduced video production training. Nasaq is also active in advocacy work linked to liberalising the media landscape in Sudan.
