Winner of WWF Special Environment Prize 2011"Urban-City Green Style"
" The lovable and rambunctiously “indignant” African women ."
Mario Sesti
Curator of “Extra” International Rome Film Festival
The film is a road movie through Senegal, a journey to support the nomination of African Women for the Nobel Peace Prize. Actually, they are the unquestioned protagonists of the documentary: strong, tireless, always available, ironic and joyful, in these years they have been playing a key role both in daily life and the social and political activities of the African Continent.
The journey-reportage is filled with spontaneous interviews and it starts from the World Social Forum Dakar 2011, to arrive to Sendou, where women, during a big celebration, teach sex education to prevent AIDS. The journey continues with the women cooperative for fish drying in Bargny Minam village , then the women of the group Kaye Bahk of Mbour, which finance their agricultural activities through the micro-funding; and young girls from Pikine, a city in the suburbs of Dakar which through the project of school adoption during these years has reached a mainly female education. The journey goes on with the story of a polygamous family and the meeting with COFLEC (La Collectif des Femmes pour la Lutte contre l'Emigration Clandestine - association of women fighting against illegal immigration).
Production Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2011
Length: 52’
Directed by: Stefano Scialotti
Script by: Stefano Scialotti
Music by: Louis Siciliano
Produced by: Dinamo Italia S.r.l. and Martha Production S.r.l
The soundtrack of the film, was recorded simultaneously with the shooting, by the composer Louis Siciliano (Cinecittà award forb best composer of the year Venice 2010) and with the involvement of African artists and musicians.
