CANDOMBE Purchasing Options:DVD Only * London BFI

* London BFI

Going beyond this

" ~ Barbara Nimri Aziz

Director's creative statement

and a lucid depiction of the contemporary African continent

CANDOMBE Purchasing Options:DVD Only * London BFICANDOMBE DIRECTED BY RAFAEL DEUGENIO URUGUAY 1993 SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES 16 MIN SYNOPSIS More than two hundred years ago, there was an influx into Uruguay of enslaved Africans whom, after being freed, continued to make up the poorest and most marginalized strata in society. Fernando Nunez, a black man, a musician, and a maker of drums, sees himself as the heir to "Candombe", an important social and cultural legacy from his enslaved