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Simon Bright
Simon Bright is a director and producer who grew up and worked in Zimbabwe. He read literature at Pembroke College Cambridge and then completed an MA at Reading University before working for the Zimbabwean Ministry of Agriculture. In the 1980s he established Zimmedia together with Ingrid Sinclair making anti-apartheid documentaries in Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe for broadcast internationally. Simon’s D.Phil. focuses on the untold moving image history of the creative collaboration between filmmakers in Southern Africa from 1982. As a founder of the First Frontline Film Festival he produced Flame, the first Southern African co-production selected for the Cannes Film Festival. His prize-winning fiction series Mama Africa, celebrates the storytelling power of six of Africa’s women writer/directors. After founding the Afrika Eye Film Festival in the United Kingdom, he is now developing a project with UNESCO to help preserve the moving cinema archive of Southern Africa.
Contact: UWE Bristol - Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Ln, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK.
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