“Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels,” directed by Tony Buba and produced by Marcus Rediker, is based on Rediker’s book, “The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom” (Penguin, 2012). The film chronicles a journey to Sierra Leone in 2013 to visit the home villages of the rebels who captured the slave schooner “Amistad” in 1839, to interview elders about local memory of the incident through the oral tradition, and to search for the long-lost ruins of Lomboko, the slave trading factory where the cruel transatlantic voyage began. The filmmakers rely on the knowledge of villagers, fishermen, and truck drivers to recover a lost history from below in the struggle against slavery and to restore the popular memory of the Atlantic slave trade.
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“Ghosts of Amistad” premiered at the Three Rivers Film Festival in 2014 and was an official selection of six other film festivals, including the Pan African Film Festival and the New York African Film Festival. The film was awarded the John E. O’Connor Film Prize by the American Historical Association as the best historical documentary of 2015. It has been screened around the world -- in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Bologna, and throughout the United States.
About the filmmakers:
Tony Buba has made over thirty films including four feature films exploring working-class issues in and around his hometown since 1974. Buba began his career with “The Braddock Chronicles,” a dozen short documentary portraits of the stubborn signs of life in a dying mill town. Buba’s work has been awarded numerous prizes and showcased in one-person shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Anthology Film Archives, the Carnegie Museum of Art. For more information visit braddockfilms.....
Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. His ten books have won many awards and been translated into sixteen languages. They include “The Many-Headed Hydra” (2000, with Peter Linebaugh); “Villains of All Nations” (2004); “The Slave Ship” (2007); “The Amistad Rebellion” (2012), and “The Fearless Benjamin Lay” (2017). He has written a play with Naomi Wallace entitled “The Return of Benjamin Lay.” For more information, visit www.marcusrediker.com.
Other contributors to the film were Co-Producers Konrad Tuchscherer and Philip Misevich; Associate Producers Eileen Weiner and Taziff Koroma (1957-2018); Editor Tom Dubensky: Cinematographer John Rice; Videographer Idriss Kpange; and Data Wrangler Jan McMannis.
© University of Pittsburgh, 2014
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