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Media Advisory: Invitation to a screening of ‘From Selma to Soweto’ and dialogue on US engagement in the Anti-apartheid movement

Media Advisory: Invitation to a screening of ‘From Selma to Soweto’ and dialogue on US engagement in the Anti-apartheid movement
Date of Advisory: 15 August 2014
From: Danielle Melville, Director: Communications and Outreach, Nelson Mandela Foundation

You are invited to a screening of ‘From Selma to Soweto’ and a dialogue on US engagement in the Anti-apartheid movement. Long one of South A
frica's most important and powerful allies, the United States becomes a key battleground in the anti-apartheid movement as African-Americans lead the charge to change the government's policy toward the apartheid regime. A grassroots movement to get colleges, city councils, and states to divest their holdings in companies doing business in South Africa spreads across the entire nation pressuring the U.S. Congress to finally sanction South Africa. This stunning victory is won against the formidable opposition of President Ronald Reagan. African-Americans significantly alter U.S. foreign policy for the first time in history. European sanctions follow, and with them, the political isolation of the apartheid regime.


Venue: Nelson Mandela Foundation, 107 Central Street, Houghton – secure  parking available along Central Street
Date: 20 August 2014
Time: 17h00 for 17h30
RSVP: By no later than 12h00 on 18 August LeeD@NelsonMandela.Org

Note to Editors:

SYNOPSIS:  SELMA TO SOWETO:
Long one of South Africa's most important and powerful allies, the United States becomes a key battleground in the anti-apartheid movement as African-Americans lead the charge to change the government’s policy toward the apartheid regime. Strengthened through years of grassroots organizing during the civil rights movement, black leaders and their allies take on U.S. foreign policy on South Africa, directing campaigns in corporate boardrooms, universities, embassies, and finally in the U.S. Congress itself, where a stunning victory is won against the formidable opposition of President Ronald Reagan. African-Americans alter U.S. foreign policy for the first time in history, and the U.S. – once the backbone of support for apartheid South Africa as its ally in the Cold War – finally imposes sanctions on Pretoria. European sanctions follow, and with them, the political isolation of the apartheid regime.

Producer/Director:  Connie Field is an Emmy winning and Academy Award nominated director who has made a number of high profile documentaries that have been shown all over the world. Her work includes "Have You Heard From Johannesburg" a seven part series on the global movement that ended Apartheid in South Africa which received a prime time Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking; The Academy Award Nominated "Freedom on My Mind" a history of Freedom Summer and the civil rights movement in Mississippi; the feminist classic “The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter”; “ Salud”, a story featuring  the international work of Cuban doctors which won the Henry Hampton Award from the Council on Foundations; and “ Al Helm, Martin Luther King in Palestine" which won the Justice Matters Award at the DC International Film Festival. Her awards are numerous including the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, British Academy Award Nominee, Best Series, and Best Feature Documentary from numerous festivals, as well as having her films listed as the 'Best Doc of the Year' or 'One of the Ten Best Films of the Year' by a number of film critics. Her work has been broadcast in over 30 countries including Japan, Brazil, South Africa, Britain, Australia, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain, BBC World, and in the US. Her work has been supported by The Ford Foundation and The National Endowment for the Humanities.

Media Contact:
Danielle Melville
Director: Communications and Outreach
082 994 0349
daniellem@nelsonmandela.org

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