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Walking Away: A Film-maker's African Journal
Author(s): Charlotte Metcalf (Author), Lenny Henry (Foreword)
- Publisher: Eye Books Direct
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 2003
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1903070201
- ISBN-13: 9781903070208
Book Description
Charlotte Metcalf has made documentary films all over Africa, and her director’s eye for unforgettable people, location and attention to detail now transfers vividly to the printed page. We feel the heat, smell the smells, and sweat with Charlotte as she battles against bureaucratic inertia and incompetence, hostility and political pressure to record the often unwelcome truth. Charlotte’s journal, like her award-winning films, is a close-up of Africa’s deep-rooted problems-from survival issues like AIDS, famine and cholera, to the unspeakable and ritual maltreatment of women. She presents a moving picture of African heroism in the face of the kind of suffering we would all prefer to walk away from-but know we no longer can. This is a book for anyone who cares about the human condition.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“An engaging journal, Metcalf is an astute observer and has a vivid eye for description.” The Daily Mail
About the Author
Charlotte Metcalf is a leading British documentary film-maker. She has made controversial and often award-winning films on challenging topics in numerous countries, many of which were broadcast worldwide. The subjects of her films have ranged from drag queens to corporate criminals, from born-again Christians to prostitutes and drug addicts. Politically too she has covered the spectrum, from party political broadcasts for Tony Blair, to Just William…and Ffion, the Channel 4 Hague profile which attracted so much attention. Charlotte writes regularly for The Spectator and the national press but this, her first book, describes her formative years of film-making all over the African continent.
