Mugabe and the White African

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Pictured: Mike Campbell and his son-in-law Ben Freeth, Mike s daughter Laura and his wife Angela

Michael Campbell is one of the few hundred white farmers left in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began his violent land seizure program in 2000. Since then the country has descended into chaos, the economy brought to its knees by the real* of formerly white-owned farms to ZANU-PF friends and officials with no knowledge, experience or interest in farming. Mike, like hundreds of white farmers before him, has suffered years of multiple land invasions and violence at his farm.

In 2008, Mike, 75 years old and a grandfather - unable to call upon the protection of any Zimbabwean authorities and unable to even rely on the support of his fellow white farmers, all facing the same brutal intimidation - took the unprecedented step of challenging Robert Mugabe before the SADC (South African Development Community) international court, charging him and his government with racial discrimination and of violations of Human Rights.

This film is an intimate account of one family s astonishing bravery in the face of brutality, in a fight to protect their property, their livelihood and their country. The outcome of the court case potentially determining not just the future that lies ahead for Mike and his family, but the future of millions of ordinary Zimbabweans who continue to suffer at the hands of a dictator who, in setting his own countrymen against each other, has demonstrated that he cares only for power.

On the brink of losing everything, Mike and his family (wife Angela, daughter Laura and her husband Ben Freeth) stand united by their courage, their faith and their hope. Mike knows the personal risk to himself and his family that this case brings. Whatever the verdict by the court, this audacious and unprecedented stand may yet cost them their lives.

This is the only documentary feature film to have come out of Zimbabwe in recent years, where a total press ban still exists. Much of the footage was shot covertly. To have been caught filming would have lead to imprisonment. Mugabe and the White African is perhaps the outside world s only real glimpse of what it is like to live inside Mugabe s Zimbabwe

Much of this film was shot covertly. To have been caught filming would have meant imprisonment.

AWARDS: Winner: Best Feature Documentary, British Independent Film Awards 2009
Winner: Grand Jury Prize, Silverdocs Film Festival, USA 2009
Winner: Special Jury Award, Hamptons Film Festival, USA 2009

Release.Year.....: 2009
Store.Date.......: 2010
Source...........: DVD5
Size.............: 1400Mb (2x 700mb)
Genre............: DOCUMENTARY
Runtime..........: 90 minutes
Link and Trailer.: http://www.mugabeandthewhiteafrican.com/

IMDB Link........: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1437235/
IMDB Rating......: 8.0/10

Video.Codec......: XviD
Video.Bitrate....: 1959kbps
Video.Resolution.: 720x400
Video.Framerate..: 29.970 FPS