Flora M'mbugu-Schelling
Born
Tanzania
NationalityTanzanian
Alma materTanzanian School of Journalism
Occupationdocumentary filmmaker
Known forher film These Hands.

Flora M'mbugu-Schelling is a Tanzanian documentary filmmaker, best known for her film These Hands.[1][2]

Life

Born in Tanzania, M'mbugu-Schelling studied at the Tanzanian School of Journalism before doing further study in Germany and France. Her debut film, Kumekucha (1987), won a gold medal at the New York International Film Festival.[3] These Hands documents the work of Mozambican refugee women, working breaking rocks in a quarry in Tanzania.[2]

Filmography

References

  1. Bisschoff, L. (2014) Women's stories and struggles in "These Hands" (Flora M'mbugu-Schelling). In: Bisschoff, L. and Murphy, D. (eds.) Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema. Legenda: Oxford. ISBN 9781907975516
  2. 1 2 Claire Robertson, Film Reviews, The American Historical Review, Vol. 101, Issue 4, October 1996, pp.1142-3.
  3. Flora M'mbugu-Schelling Archived 2019-04-12 at the Wayback Machine, African Film Festival.
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