Following a highly successful first annual Real Life Documentary Film Festival in Accra in Ghana in May 2006, to which several filmmakers and organizations gave their support, the organizers of the festival hereby propose another event scheduled for June 2nd-8th 2007.
We intend to strengthen our ambitions in the 2nd Real Life Documentary Festival in Accra, 2007. During that year, Ghana will be celebrating its 50 years of Independence as well as 200th anniversary of British Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. These two anniversaries and the year long festivities planned by the government and non-governmental communities gives Real Life Pan-African Documentary Film Festival significant contexts within which to strengthen our objectives as well as show more historical films on independence movements in the Pan-African world while developing a broader audience base.
Apart from inviting documentary filmmakers from around the world, our program will encompass high school teachers and children, young filmmakers in film schools from several African countries, as well as integrating African television stations. Real Life Pan-African Documentary Festival will also establish privileged relationships with other festivals on similar themes.