White and Black: Crimes of Color

White and Black: Crimes of Color
Directed by Jean-Francois Méan
Produced by Louis Laverdière
Written by Jean-François Méan
John Kalina
Starring Vicky Ntetema
Music by Robert Marcel Lepage
Cinematography Jean-Pierre Saint-Louis
Edited by Glenn Berman
Production
company
Cité Amérique
Distributed by Skin Deep Distribution
Release dates
november 2010
Running time
58'
Country Canada/Tanzania
Language Swahili

White and Black: Crimes of Color is a Canadian documentary directed by Jean-François Méan. Broadcast throughout Tanzania in 2010, it portrays the discrimination, hardships and stigmatisation endured by persons with albinism in Tanzania.

Its premiere in Dar es Salaam was inaugurated by Tanzania's Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda. After its broadcast, the murder rate of persons with albinism in Tanzania, which had been stable for three straight years, dramatically decreased (90%).[1] The film became the cornerstone of Pamoko: a multimedia awareness campaign to end trade for albino body parts in Tanzania. It included notable Tanzanian artists: K-sher, Fid Q, Bi Chau and King Majuto.[2]

Synopsis

Since 2007, Tanzania a murder wave of persons with albinism has swept the country to fuel an illicit trade in their body parts. Vicky Ntetema, a BBC Swahili radio journalist decides to investigate this trade and expose the roots of the beliefs that fuel it.

She follows the fate of the survivors of the attacks: two young girls and one young boy with albinism who have narrowly escaped their murderers and have been displaced as a result. Their only refuge: a school for the blind where no one can see their lack of pigmentation.

White and Black is a militant documentary that surpassed its status an NGO film by being screened in film festivals across the world.

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