The Rwandan Genocide on Film

Matthew Edwards is a primary school teacher and freelance writer from Cirencester, England. He is the author or editor of numerous books on world cinema.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction by Matthew Edwards

Part I: Essays

Screening the Rwandan Genocide: Hotel Rwanda in Partial

Comparison with Sometimes in April (Mohamed Adhikari)

Ignoring Genocide: Hotel Rwanda (John McDonnell)

Shaming the West: The Other Side of the Rwandan Genocide

in Film (Tatiana Prorokova)

From Invisibility to Recognition: Archive and Cultural Memory

of the Rwandan Genocide (Lior Zylberman)

The Films of Eric Kabera, The Kwetu Film Institute and

Hillywood (Dianne R. Portfleet)

Reconciliation in ­Post-Genocide Rwanda as Presented in the

Film As We Forgive (Philip A. Cantrell) II

Let Us Speak of Rwanda (and Argentina and France)

(Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Juan Ignacio Juvé)

Part II: Interviews

The Panorama Trilogy: An Interview with Investigative

Journalist Steve Bradshaw (Matthew Edwards)

100 Days: An Interview with Director Nick Hughes (Matthew Edwards)

Interview with Film Producer Eric Kabera (Madelaine Hron)

Munyurangabo: An Interview with Director Lee Isaac Chung

Matthew Edwards)

As We Forgive: An Interview with Laura Waters Hinson (Matthew Edwards)

Grey Matter: An Interview with Director Kivu Ruhorahoza (Matthias De Groof)

Justice Seekers and The Arrows of Truth: An Interview with Antonio Ribeiro (Samantha Ashenden, James Brown and Philip Spencer)

Sweet Dreams: An Interview with Lisa Fruchtman (Matthew Edwards)

Filmography

About the Contributors

Index