SING, FREETOWN gets to UK screens in June
"We need to move this nation forward… That will lead into a brighter, better future." The film follows an Emmy winning investigative journalist from Sierra Leone, Sorious Samura, who's grown tired telling negative stories about Africa. He embarks on a journey with his best friend, Sierra Leone's most famous playwright – Charlie Haffner, to create an epic work of national theatre – a play to reclaim their country from negative media narratives and the damaging legacy of colonial rule. It doesn't go as planned… This is a remarkably fascinating clash-of-cultures confrontation to capture on camera. It seems to explore the idea how to evolve, which way is right - focusing on the bad, or on the good.
Clive Patterson’s doc finally makes it to the screen - I helped as an edit consultant along its 5 year journey!
It is also screening in Sheffield.