CANDOMBE Purchasing Options:DVD Only Director's creative statement

Director's creative statement

* London BFI

The film focuses on her life and work from a  perspective that analyses images of Black people in popular culture

and at times something close to academic

BRAZIL / 2001 / PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / 100 MIN

CANDOMBE Purchasing Options:DVD Only Director's creative statementCANDOMBE DIRECTED BY RAFAEL DEUGENIO URUGUAY 1993 SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES 16 MIN SYNOPSIS More than two hundred years ago, there was an influx into Uruguay of enslaved Africans whom, after being freed, continued to make up the poorest and most marginalized strata in society. Fernando Nunez, a black man, a musician, and a maker of drums, sees himself as the heir to "Candombe", an important social and cultural legacy from his enslaved