“Gay Zombie Porn Gets Festival Flick” – just one of the many creative headlines following the announcement that LA Zombie, a film directed by queer art house auteur Bruce LaBruce, would be pulled from 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival after being refused an exemption from the Australian Classification Board.
The Board made its decision on the basis that the film fit the “Refused Classification” or “RC” category under the federal government’s guidelines for the classification of films.
Reportedly, its many obscenities included depicting “necrophilia” (the gorgeous porn star François Sagat performing in red and green corpse paint) and scenes “which are offensive or abhorrent” from the perspective of “reasonable adults” (one assumes the orgy at the end).
Anthony Nti’s Award Winning Film DA YIE shares a story of two children who are taken on a dangerous road trip
Nominated for BAFTA LA, Student Academy Awards and selected for over 140 film festivals LISTEN
JAN 27, 2021
This stunning African film is an intense day trip in sunny Ghana, that endangers the innocence of two kids. Co-written by the talented emerging duo Anthony Nti and Chingiz Karibekov, DA YIE has garnered four Oscar-qualifying Grand Prize (Leuven Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, Indy Short International Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival) amongst its 25 awards and 140 high profile film festivals selections.
Young Matilda and Prince are taken on a life-changing trip by a stranger. Kids, gangsters and Ghana s coast as you ve never seen them.
MY TAKE: Why Anthony Nti’s award-winning film ‘Da Yie’ is more than a movie Co-written by duo Anthony Nti and Chingiz Karibekov, Da Yie has garnered four Oscar-qualifying Grand Prizes amongst its 25 awards and 140 high-profile film festivals selections. The character Matilda in Anthony Nti s short film Da Yie . Picture: Supplied.
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JOHANNESBURG – “It’s the best feeling!” Award-winning director Anthony Nti describes what it’s like to direct a film which goes onto the screen to be watched by many people.
Nti recently directed the film
Da Yie, which means good night.
This stunning African film revolves around an intense day trip in sunny Ghana that endangers the innocence of two kids.
DA YIE is a Gem of a Short Film that Begs Reflection
Budding Ghanaian filmmaker, Anthony Nti, explored the topic of innocence as it pertains to our children the and role of adults in protecting both this innocence and their lives, by way of his film his award-winning short film Da Yie.
Child Trafficking on the African Continent
Trafficking: The recruitment, harbouring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude.
A definition by the African Centre for Strategic Studies whose 2019 report states that over 50% of trafficking victims in sub-Saharan Africa are children.
An Austrian film called
The Trouble with Being Born is winning high praise from critics at film festivals. It received a special jury award at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year. On Rotten Tomatoes, it scores 100% amongst critics.
It’s a “hidden gem”, according to
Hollywood Reporter. “A powerful and revelatory achievement,” wrote a critic for
Screen Daily. “A strange, haunting parable about innocence exploited,” said the
Sydney Morning Herald.
I haven’t seen it and I won’t see it. But
Variety probably got it right. A film about robot paedophilia is bound to be creepy.
The plot is thin, the attraction cerebral and the pace languid, but from all accounts