https://shotonwhat.com/region/eastern-africa The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:25:48 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/la-jungle-est-mon-jardin-2022 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:25:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/la-jungle-est-mon-jardin-2022
Director: Enrico Alexander Giordano
An Ethiopian migrant, wants to join her sister in England. A former high-ranking soldier, has just delivered his wife from an incurable disease. Between these two marginals an unfailing relationship will be tied. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/king-solomons-mines-1950 Wed, 29 May 2024 15:23:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/king-solomons-mines-1950
Director: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:37:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001
Director: Bertram van Munster, Evan Weinstein
Cinematographer: Peter Rieveschl, Per Larsson, Tom Cunningham, Josh Gitersonke
Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hotel-rwanda-2004 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:54:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hotel-rwanda-2004
Director: Terry George
Cinematographer: Robert Fraisse
Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/god-sleeps-in-rwanda-2005 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:46:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/god-sleeps-in-rwanda-2005
Director: Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman
Cinematographer: Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman
A powerful documentary about five women whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the Rwandan genocide. With the country left nearly 70% female in the wake of the massacres, "God Sleeps ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/darwins-nightmare-2004 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:45:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/darwins-nightmare-2004
Director: Hubert Sauper
Cinematographer: Hubert Sauper
A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/human-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:24:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/human-2015
Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/open-heart-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:02:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/open-heart-2013
Director: Kief Davidson
Cinematographer: Zak Mulligan
Eight Rwandan children leave their families behind to embark on a life-or-death journey seeking high-risk heart surgery in Sudan. Their hearts ravaged by a treatable disease from childhood ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fishing-without-nets-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:56:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fishing-without-nets-2014
Director: Cutter Hodierne
Cinematographer: Alex Disenhof
A drama the follows a Somali who opts in on a piracy mission but then tries to extricate himself from the events. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/les-chevaliers-du-ciel-2005 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:53:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/les-chevaliers-du-ciel-2005
Director: Gérard Pirès
Cinematographer: Pascal Lebègue
An advanced, armed, French Mirage fighter jet is stolen during an air show in UK. 2 other fighter jets locate it. They're forced to shoot it down. Terrorists make another attempt to steal armed Mirages. Why? ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/asad-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:22:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/asad-2012
Director: Bryan Buckley
Cinematographer: Scott Henriksen
A coming of age fable of a Somali boy as he struggles to survive in his war-torn land. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/out-of-africa-1985 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:02:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/out-of-africa-1985
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cinematographer: David Watkin
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/baraka-1992 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:19:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/baraka-1992
Director: Ron Fricke
Cinematographer: Ron Fricke
A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-far-off-place-1993 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:32:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-far-off-place-1993
Director: Mikael Salomon
Cinematographer: Juan Ruiz Anchía
When a gang of African poachers raid her family's farm, young Nonni, visiting American teenager Harry Winslow and a local bushman guide must escape into the Kalahari desert and reach the nearest town. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ali-2001 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:36:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ali-2001
Director: Michael Mann
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/i-am-slave-2010 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:13:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/i-am-slave-2010
Director: Gabriel Range
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
A thriller set in London's slave trade and centered on a woman's fight for freedom. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/blood-diamond-2006 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:03:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blood-diamond-2006
Director: Edward Zwick
Cinematographer: Eduardo Serra
A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-king-of-scotland-2006 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:08:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-king-of-scotland-2006
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle
Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/winged-migration-2001 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 23:06:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/winged-migration-2001
Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats
Cinematographer: Olli Barbé, Michel Benjamin, Sylvie Carcedo, Laurent Charbonnier, Luc Drion, Laurent Fleutot, Philippe Garguil, Dominique Gentil, Bernard Lutic, Thierry Machado, Stéphane Martin, Fabrice Moindrot, Ernst Sasse, Michel Terrasse, Thierry Thomas
Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-constant-gardener-2005 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:47:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-constant-gardener-2005
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Cinematographer: César Charlone
A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/its-all-about-love-2003 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:54:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/its-all-about-love-2003
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle
It's All About Love is the story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star,... ]]>