| January 31, 2012 | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | ||
A small village in Lesotho, an isolated island in Mozambique, the bustling capital of Ghana. Hundreds of Chinese immigrants seeking a better life come with the hope of succeeding, but soon find themselves facing all kinds of obstacles – even death. This
documentary is a look at three human stories that represent the greatest phenomenon of immigration to the African continent in the last decade.
Yara Costa Pereira is a journalist from Mozambique. She has lived in Angola and South Africa, has worked as a reporter in Brazil and is currently living between New York and Haiti, where she works as an independent director. Yara decided she wanted to tell the untold stories of Africa and help combat the negative stereotypes that so often characterize the continent in the Western media. In 2009 Costa received a Fulbright Scholarship to study film at New York University, where she graduated and completed her first documentary as part of her thesis: “Why are they here? Chinese stories in Africa” on the Chinese immigrants living in Africa. She was also an intern for the production of television documentaries at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Here, she also worked as a producer and reporter on several local TV stories. The short documentary “Women Out of Prison: Employment, the story of Mayra Collado” was a production in which she participated.
WHY ARE THEY HERE? CHINESE
STORIES IN AFRICA
Yara Costa
Duration: 35’
Production: Yara Costa
Subtitles: English and Portuguese
Session followed by a conversation
with the director
