Fans of African cinema now have TWO ways to watch some of the best documentaries from across the continent and beyond. Africa’s well known and loved documentary film broadcast stream, AfriDocs, is now available for viewing ANYTIME from your computer, laptop, or from any mobile device.
In an African first, AfriDocs Anytime is now available as a FREE streaming platform on www.afridocs.net with a catalogue that includes nearly 40 films available for viewing at any time, as well as an exclusive CATCH-UP opportunity, featuring the past week’s BET schedule available to view for a limited period of time.
AfriDocs Anytime is proud to feature a diverse selection of documentariesnfrom Ghana, including The Witches of Gambaga, Accra Power, Chameleon, and Homegrown: Hiplife in Ghana.
These films can be streamed for free from the website at anytime – making these unique Ghanaian stories accessible to audiences across Africa. Support Ghana’s best filmmakers and view these films, as well as nearly 40 other films all ready to view now.
http://www.afridocs.net/watch-now/the-witches-of-gambaga/
The Witches of Gambaga is the extraordinary story of a community of women condemned to live as witches in Northern Ghana. Painful experience and insight come together to create an intimate portrait of the lives of women ostracised by their communities.
http://afridocs.net/watch-now/chameleon/
Anas has been called the James Bond of Ghanaian journalism. He’s exposed a sex-trafficking ring by masquerading as a bartender, uncovered deplorable conditions in Accra’s psychiatric hospital, posed as a crown prince in order to bypass a rebel checkpoint
http://www.afridocs.net/watch-now/homegrown-hiplife-ghana/
West Africa has a long-standing tradition of traveling storytellers known as Griots, who combine poetry, music, and oral history. In Ghana, a group of young Africans are continuing this legacy and here Hip-Hop music has merged with High-Life, the traditional music of West Africa, and this fusion has led to the birth of a new musical genre called HipLife
http://www.afridocs.net/watch-now/accra-power/
Accra Power provides an eclectic mix of perceptions of power in one of many thriving urban settings in Africa.
AfriDocs Anytime is a like having a film festival on your screen, with access to powerful, quality, award-winning documentaries that have shown at some of the most prestigious festivals in the world, as AfriDocs Executive Producer Don Edkins explains,
“The launch of AfriDocs Anytime heralds a new era of distribution for the continent, with the combination of a prime-time broadcast opportunity, followed up a by a free online streaming mechanism, means new opportunities for filmmakers, as well as the chance to develop audiences for the best in African film.”
AfriDocs Anytime already includes a full catalogue of high-profile African documentaries including classics such as South Africa’s Mama Africa and The Cradock Four, Kenyan films including For Kibera, as well as international documentaries such as CitizenFour, The Act of Killing and Gulabi Gang.
AfriDocs can be seen every SUNDAY at 10pm (CAT) on BET Africa, DStv channel 129 and AfriDocs anytime can be viewed here: www.afridocs.net.
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