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- ↑ Kuxa Kanema - O Nascimento do Cinema (2003) on YouTube. Video duration: 52m 01s. Uploader Alvaro A Comin, 2016. Original film. Voice over in Portuguese with English subtitles.
- 1 2 McGee, Patricia B. (April 7, 2004). "Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema". libweb.lib.buffalo.edu. African Studies Association Conference Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
The story of the National Institute of Cinema, the INC, is very much a metaphor of the history of the People's Republic of Mozambique itself. In 1975, the country became one of the last African colonies to gain independence.
- ↑ Hall, Phil (April 22, 2004). "KUXA KANEMA: THE BIRTH OF CINEMA". filmthreat.com. Film Threat.
Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, oddly enough, came to the country with the plans of creating an independent television network and left when the government vetoed this grand notion.... Margarida Cardoso achieves what too many so-called documentary filmmakers fail to consider: approaching a subject with intellectualism, objectivity and professionalism. At a time when too much documentary filmmaking is polluted with vapid interviews and low-grade videography, "Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema" has the brainpower to ask the right questions and knows how to organize and present the films in question.
- ↑ "Kuxa Kanema The Birth of Cinema A Film by Margarida Cardoso". frif.com. First Run Icarus Films, New York. Archived from the original on 2008-05-08. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
The first cultural act of the nascent Mozambique Government after independence in 1975 was to create the National Institute of Cinema (INC). The new president Samora Machel had a strong awareness of the power of the image, and understood he needed to use this power to build a socialist nation.....Samora Machel's death marked the end of Mozambique's cinema (the current government prefers television). There is nothing left of the INC.
