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<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe 2011 Africa World Documentary Film Festival (AWDFF) holds in Barbados this year from March 5th to May 15th 2011. Sponsored by the E. Desmond Lee Professorship in African\/African-American Studies, Centre for International Studies at the University of Missouri, Saint Louis, the AWDFF promotes the knowledge, life and culture of people of African descent worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With annual submissions coming in from Brazil, Cuba, United Kingdom, Australia, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, USA, Germany, Trinidad & Tobago, Ethiopia, Somalia, Senegal, Uganda, Liberia, Tanzania, Spain, Norway, Netherlands, Eritrea, France, Israel and Canada – to name a few \u2013 the selection committee recommends a maximum of 68 films from annual submissions in excess of 300 films!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first Africa World Documentary Film Festival (Saint Louis, Missouri & Lagos, Nigeria) commenced at the Tivoli Cinema Hall in Saint Louis, Missouri on October 14th, 2007. It opened in Nigeria at the National Arts Theatre two weeks later on November 2 and concluded on November 10th, 2007. Subsequently, the Festival has been held at the Missouri History Museum, in Saint Louis; the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination in Cave Hill Barbados; the Bermuda International Film Festival in Hamilton, Bermuda and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Saint Louis, Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2010 a short documentary submission, titled Music by Prudence<\/em><\/a> was awarded Best Short Documentary<\/em> at the 2010 Academy Awards. Music by Prudence<\/em><\/strong> follows the life of a Zimbabwean girl with a disability called arthrogryposis, and her remarkable transcendence from a world of hatred and superstition into one of music, love, and possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n