Lady Filmmakers
Film Festival
October 8-10, 2010
Nora
Director: Alla Kovgan and David Hinton
Producer: Joan Frosch
Cinematographer: Mkrtich Malkhasyan
Writer: Alla Kovgan, David Hinton,
Nora Chipaumire
Writer: Alla Kovgan, David Hinton,
Nora Chipaumire
Synopsis: Shot in Southern Africa, Nora is based on childhood memories of the self-exiled dancer Nora Chipaumire who was born in Zimbabwe in 1965. Using performance and dance, she brings her history to life in a swiftly-moving poem of sound and image. The original score was composed by a Zimbabwean legend - Thomas Mapfumo.
Movie website: http://movementrevolution.com/nora
Biographies
Alla Kovgan is a Boston-based filmmaker, born in Moscow (Russia). Her films and films that she co-directed have been presented worldwide including at the Sundance Film Festival, Lincoln Center, Montreal Film Festival, ZDF (Germany) and numerous others. The two latest documentaries that she co-directed "Traces of the Trade" and ?Generation X Moscow? will appear on PBS P.O.V in 2008 and 2010. Since 1999, Alla has been involved with interdisciplinary collaborations ? creating intermedia performances (with KINODANCE Company), dance films (with Alissa Cardone, Victoria Marks, Nicola Hawkins), and documentaries about dance such as ?Movement (R)evolution Africa? together with Joan Frosch. Alla's projects have been supported by Open Society Institute, LEF Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Bank of America Celebrity Series, among others.
David Hinton is a director who has made many documentaries for British television. His subjects have included artists of all kinds, including painter Francis Bacon, film-maker Bernardo Bertolucci, writer Alan Bennett, and choreographer Karole Armitage. He has also made films about Dostoyevsky, rock and roll, visual comedy, and the Cultural Revolution in China. He is best known in the dance world for DEAD DREAMS OF MONOCHROME MEN and STRANGE FISH, his film versions of stage shows by DV8 Physical Theatre.
Alla Kovgan is a Boston-based filmmaker, born in Moscow (Russia). Her films and films that she co-directed have been presented worldwide including at the Sundance Film Festival, Lincoln Center, Montreal Film Festival, ZDF (Germany) and numerous others. The two latest documentaries that she co-directed "Traces of the Trade" and ?Generation X Moscow? will appear on PBS P.O.V in 2008 and 2010. Since 1999, Alla has been involved with interdisciplinary collaborations ? creating intermedia performances (with KINODANCE Company), dance films (with Alissa Cardone, Victoria Marks, Nicola Hawkins), and documentaries about dance such as ?Movement (R)evolution Africa? together with Joan Frosch. Alla's projects have been supported by Open Society Institute, LEF Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Bank of America Celebrity Series, among others.
David Hinton is a director who has made many documentaries for British television. His subjects have included artists of all kinds, including painter Francis Bacon, film-maker Bernardo Bertolucci, writer Alan Bennett, and choreographer Karole Armitage. He has also made films about Dostoyevsky, rock and roll, visual comedy, and the Cultural Revolution in China. He is best known in the dance world for DEAD DREAMS OF MONOCHROME MEN and STRANGE FISH, his film versions of stage shows by DV8 Physical Theatre.
