Kungadred in partnership with Chronic Love Foundation and Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival 

WELCOME TO BUSSEYWOOD IS BACK! Part of the award winning, Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival, the famous Bussey Building is once again host to London's largest one day Free African films festival.

Great films back to back, exploring the exciting multi-layered nature of the African film narrative.

From classic African cinema to new and emerging artists from Africa and the wider African community. 

Curated and organised by Orvil Kunga (aka Kungadred) , 'Welcome to Busseywood' hopes to become a place where the London community can come and experience stories which are often over-looked in mainstream cinema.

This is a totally FREE!! to attend event...NO TICKETS NO BOOKINGS required...just turn up on the day and enjoy all the goodies from African cinema on offer including:

Half of Yellow Sun (Dir. Biyi Bandele, 2013, Nigeria, cert PG. 111 mins) 
starring award winning actors Chiwetel Ejifor and Thandie Newton, Half of a Yellow Sun is the biggest film to come out of Africa from an African director, having gained international cinematic release. Biyi Bandele's debut feature based on the Purple prize winning book of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is set to become an African cinematic classic!
Sisters Olanna (Thandie Newton)and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.

Imani - (Dir Caroline Kamya 2010, Uganda, cert PG. 82mins) 
vibrantly captures three vignettes of life in modern day Uganda: A child soldier returning to the parents who could not protect him, a woman fighting to get her wrongly accused sister out of jail, and a youth dance troop leader struggling to simply get through a hometown performance. These seemingly disparate stories slowly fuse into a profound singular narrative as the characters reveal themselves to be uniformly off balance in their own lives, and the world around them. 
trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOAgCebSrVE

SHORTS

OYA: RISE OF THE SUPORISHAS (Nosa Igbinedion, 2014, U.K cert PG. 12.57 mins),
Is an exciting action packed film, written and directed by award winning director Nosa Igbinedion. The film resurrects mythical deities from African folklore, known as Orishas, into modern-day superheroes, focusing on Ade, one of the few people in the modern world who still has a connection with one of the gods Oya. Oya's job is to keep the doorway between the world of man and the world of the Orishas firmly closed, for, if it is opened, the Orishas will wreak havoc upon the Earth as retribution for man's abandonment of them. To keep the door shut she must find the 'key' (a young girl with the potential to open the doorway) and she is tasked in keeping the young girl safe.
trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS6L_9Yu_y0

Akee and Salt Fish (dir.Cecile Emeke, 2014, U.K cert PG, ) 
Excellent thought provoking comedic short film takes a no-holds barred approach to the often touchy subject of gentrification.
Trailer synopsis - Be a fly on the wall and meet Olivia and Rachel, the stars of the upcoming short film "Ackee & Saltfish". Discussing being adopted by Solange (sister of Beyonce), wondering whether Common plays the guitar and arguments over whether couscous is rice or not.

Film Synopsis: On a unusually sunny Sunday in East London, two best friends, Olivia and Rachel, go to pick up takeaway food after Rachel forgets to soak the salt fish.

trailer https://vimeo.com/97936713 2.42 mins

Jonah (Dir Kibwe Tavares, Zanzibar/U.K cert PG, 17.42 mins ) 
Mbwana and chis best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These deems become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea, causing their small Zanzibari town to become a big tourist attraction. But the reality is not what they had hoped for and a chance re-encounter with the fish, Mbwana now old and ruined, decides only one of them can survive. 
Award winning, Brixton based Factory Fifteen offer a true master class in VFX filmmaking and with the beautiful backdrop of Zanzibar, this short animated film is a must see for anyone interested in the craft of visually compelling story-telling. 
Trailer https://vimeo.com/57793820

Q&A
Director Shola Amoo (Touch/A Moving Image) in conversation with directors Cecile Emeke (Ackee and Salt fish), Nosa Igbinedion (Oya-Rise of the Orisha) and dir. and co-founder of Factory Fifteen, Kibwe Tavares about filmmaking, diversity and whether there is such a thing as a Black narrative.
www.sholaamoo.com

Abyss Boys (Jan-Hendrik Beetge, 2009, South Africa, cert PG, 26 mins) 
Set in the slums of a small fishing community on the southern coast of South Africa, the drowning depths of illegal abalone poaching has become a dangerous life that Jimmy, a legendary ex diver, has to escape from. Wanting to save AB, his rebellious young brother from Gonyama, the violent gangster who AB admires, Jimmy devises a plan to give him and AB a new beginning and a new life. But on a stormy winters day when Jimmy gets his chance to escape, nothing can prepare him for what happens.

La Radio 
Ivory Coast, 2012, cert U, 15 mins, 
Diir Armand Brice Tchikamen
An old man buys a radio. Whenever he turns it on he hears stories of destruction. He is convinced the problem lies in the radio and takes it to a repair shop. Boni, the engineer, must find a solution. But what if the problem is not with the radio but something much bigger? View trailer

There will be;
African centred market stalls - selling homemade (vegan friendly) food, handmade crafts, clothes and health products.
Panel discussions with UK/African producers and filmmakers 
African language taster class
Poetry, story-telling and pop art gallery