Featured Documentary
THE CLUB
55min | 2021
Director | Nalini Elvino de Sousa
Co-Authors| Nalini Elvino de Sousa & Pedro Pombo
Synopsis
Goa since the second half of the 19th century has been the font of valued human resource export to Africa and Macau.
This documentary brings to life various facets of this era: the shared spaces, the shared life stories, and the travails of this Goan diaspora in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar.
Nominated for best documentary in Pan African Youth Film & Arts Festival, 2022
Won the second prize for best documentary in the 16th Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF), 2022
Premier: 13th November 2021 – International
Indian Ocean conversations, University of Bayreuth, Germany
12th December 2021 – Dar Es Salaam
Institute (DI), Dar, Tanzania
25th March 2022 – NYU University, Abu
Dhabi, UAE
9th May 2022 – Meyes music to our eyes, INETmd, University of Aveiro – VIC Art House, Aveiro, Portugal
3rd August 2022 – Archipelagic Memory:
Intersecting Geographies Histories and Disciplines, University of Mauritius,
Mauritius
10th November 2022 – Goa Heritage
Festival, Campal, Goa, India
10th November 2022 – premiered on RTP2 (Portuguese television – Chanel 2), Portugal
Director | Nalini Elvino de Sousa
Co-authors | Nalini Elvino de Sousa and Pedro Pombo
Producers | Nalini Elvino de Sousa, Jacinta Barros, Rui Simões
Camera | Namitha Nair, Kaushtub R. Hundekar, Vikas Urs, Agnelo Gonsalves, Abdul Jafary
Drone | Abdul Jafary
Sound Recording | Alok Kotian, Ravi Kumar
Sound Mastering | Ravi Kumar
Editor | Gasper D’Souza
Animation | Sofia Ferreira
Colour correction | Francisco Costa
Research team: Clara Rodrigues, Pedro Pombo
Author of the DI drawing | Sarah Merkes
Musicians | Steven Sequeira – piano, Alan Joseph Abreu – voice and keyboard, Brian Bones – voice and bass, Laury Pires – voice and tamborim, Sabby – voice and guitar, Sigmund de Souza – voice and guitar, Lenon Pires – djembe, Adrian D’Souza – guitar, Alex D’Souza – drums, Alvin D’Souza – bass, Clifford Mascarenhas – keyboard, larina D’Souza – voice, Braz Gonsalves – saxofone
Music | Holy Grace – Braz Gonsalves, In the Mood – Glenn Miller
Institutional Archives |RTP, AP, Freemantle, Huntley Films
Private Archives | Mervyn Lobo, Adrien Roden, Sabby Almeida, Judy Luis-Watson, Library of Congress – Matson Photograph Collection, Library of Northwestern University – UN Collection, Antonio Menezes, Brian Bones, Torrence Royer
Special acknowledgements | Judy Luis-Watson, Mervyn Lobo, Selma Carvalho
Acknowledgements | Dar Es Salaam Institute (DI), Maria Meireles, Neville Trindade, Parvesh Java, Sonia Filinto, Tina d’Mello Sequeira
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