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STORY: SUDAN / FILMMAKERS
TRT: 1.55
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 JUNE 2010, KHARTOUM, SUDAN
1. Screen shot, ‘Rabbaba Man’ in documentary film leaving his home pushing a bicycle
2. Screen shot, ‘Rabbaba Man’ playing instrument
3. Wide shot, audience watching
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mario Mabior, Director of ‘The Rabbaba Man’:
“I was trained how to direct and how to write a script – and also to research a character which fits the story, and someone that is easy to work with. So I thought in my mind of a person who I have known for a very long time, and in this person I can get as many elements from him. Mohamed lives far away – he lives in Ombadda.”
5. Wide shot, audiences clapping
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sogoud ElGarrai, Editor of ‘The Rabbaba Man’:
“I think given what we have – it’s a good – it’s an okay job and it’s only the beginning and we are not giving up – and we hope that next time it will be better and there is not a chance that we can run out of stories to document in Sudan – it’s a big country and everybody has always got a story to tell.”
7. Various shots, segments of film on ‘In Search of Hip-Hop’ directed by Issraa El-Kogali
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Telal Afifi, Project Coordination:
“We had difficulties with filming in the streets, we had difficulties with filming with people – people are not used to cameras and they are feeling very aggressed when they see the cameras and to do all these films which you have seen it was difficult. It was a type of challenge and we had to do it.”
9. Wide shot, audience watching film
Two aspiring Sudanese documentary filmmakers last week released ‘The Rabbaba Man’, the first output from an intensive documentary filmmaking workshop funded by the German cultural centre in Khartoum.
‘The Rabbaba Man’ tells the story of Mohamed Modier , known around town as “Haraka”, an artist and craftsman who makes and sells traditional string instruments in the outskirts of Ombadda, Omduruman located outside Khartoum city.
In the film, directed and edited by Mario Mabior and Sogoud ElGarrai, Haraka tells audiences about his life over the last 20 years pushing his bicycle and performing his songs through the local markets.
Mabior, who directed the film, explains that he picked a character who he knew well for his documentary.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mario Mabior, Director of ‘The Rabbaba Man’:
“I was trained how to direct and how to write a script – and also to research a character which fits the story, and someone that is easy to work with. So I thought in my mind of a person who I have known for a very long time, and in this person I can get as many elements from him. Mohamed lives far away – he lives in Ombadda.”
Editor Sogoud ElGarrai, who had previously worked as a photographer, said she was excited to take up the challenge of documentary making.
SOUNDBITE (English) Sogoud ElGarrai, Editor of ‘The Rabbaba Man’:
“I think given what we have – it’s a good – it’s an okay job and it’s only the beginning and we are not giving up – and we hope that next time it will be better and there is not a chance that we can run out of stories to document in Sudan – it’s a big country and everybody has always got a story to tell.”
ElGarrai and Mabior are part of a group of twenty-two Sudanese film students – who for close to six months went through intensive training of different aspects of documentary film-making – from story ideas, editing, to directing and scripting.
More than 85 people signed up to attend the workshop, which was scheduled to run for three months, with theoretical and practical classes five times a week.
All in all, they produced six films.
SOUNDBITE (English) Telal Afifi, Project Coordination:
“We had difficulties with filming in the streets, we had difficulties with filming with people – people are not used to cameras and they are feeling very aggressed when they see the cameras and to do all these films which you have seen it was difficult. It was a type of challenge and we had to do it.”
Despite the problems encountered the exposure to documentary film making has encouraged the students, who are now looking beyond to bigger projects.
