A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues) is a documentary which depicts the FRELIMO struggle for the independence of Mozambique from Portugal.
| A Luta Continua (The Struggle Continues) | |
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| Directed by | Robert Van Lierop |
| Written by | Robert Van Lierop |
| Cinematography | Robert Fletcher |
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Running time | 34 minutes |
| Country | Mozambique/USA |
Filmed by an African-American crew in 1971, within liberated zones of the country, the documentary has been called, "one of the most effective ... for the mobilization of international solidarity" with FRELIMO.[1] Released in 1972 and broadcast on the US television station GBH in October 1973, the documentary links the independence struggle in Southern Africa with the civil rights and Black Power movements in the United States.[2] It is credited with influencing strategies of African-American grassroots community organizing in the 1970s and anti-apartheid activism in the US in the 1980s.[3] The film contains the only footage of battle recorded from the FRELIMO side of the Independence War.[4]
References
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edit- ^ Luque, Alba Martín (2017). "International Shaping of a Nationalist Imagery? Robert van Lierop, Eduardo Mondlane and A luta continua" (PDF). Afriche e Orienti (3): 115–138.
- ^ Parrott, Joseph (April 2019). "How to film a revolution". Africa is a Country.
- ^ Parrott, R. Joseph (July 2015). "A Luta Continua : radical filmmaking, Pan-African liberation and communal empowerment". Race & Class. 57 (1): 20–38. doi:10.1177/0306396815581781. ISSN 0306-3968. S2CID 146908564.
- ^ Gray, Rose (2020). Cinemas of the Mozambican revolution : anti-colonialism, independence and internationalism in filmmaking, 1968-1991. Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey. ISBN 978-1-78744-658-8. OCLC 1137593926.
External links
edit- A Luta Continua (video) GBH Archive, 25 October 1973 broadcast
- A Luta Continua (narrative text) African Information Service & Robert Van Lierop (1973) "Mozambique: The Struggle Continues" The Black Scholar 5(2), pp. 44–52