The Story of Detained Women (Bougainvillea)… Anew Sudanese Movie

Sudan Events – Magda Hassan

Director Yasser Fayez ended the movie (Bougainvillea), which is a narrative movie
A short novel that tells the story in a narrow and isolated cell, six women detained during the 2018 December Revolution in Sudan.
They face the oppression of arrest and feelings of sadness, and prepare to resist.
Few Opportunities
I asked Yassir whether the film was for festivals or for the public. He explained that any professional film that has a distribution cycle goes to festivals first, and if there is a possibility, it goes to the movie .
It goes despite the lack of opportunities for short films to be shown in the movie. He added: It starts with the festivals and goes to cinemas and platforms or is sold. Televisions and this is what we will do.
Attracting financing
There is no doubt that films such as (Goodbye Julia) and (She Will Die at Twenty) constituted a new revival for Sudanese movie and encouraged many youth to consider it a starting point and the films will continue, a statement confirmed by Yassir that she will die at twenty, and Goodbye Julia:
They obtained opportunities for Sudanese movie because they attracted international productions.
It is not a lot, but compared to what came before, it is very huge. It is important to attract non-Sudanese production companies and tell them that there is production in Sudan, and then the films return their revenues.
He added: The second point is that these films achieved success at the public and artistic levels, and film critics were interested in them, and this It gives confidence to Sudanese cinema and obtain many opportunities for it.
Adventure movie
At the present time, young people are turning to films with their own resources, although Sudanese movie has been complaining about the lack of funding over the past years.
It is a paradox now that Yasser justified it with the ease of the times.
Currently, factors are available that were not previously available, including cinema technology itself. It has become easier than in the past. Obtaining technologies is easier, and knowledge and learning are done online. There are facilities that the era has brought.
However, the previous generation had greater opportunities, but did not invest them well, especially those who attended the transformations.
The new ones have not had production in recent years that puts them in the ranks of their old production or the production of current youth. Fayez believes that the ability of youths to move is greater than the last generation, in addition to the fact that the existing Sudanese production companies produce drama and cinema with limited capabilities and did not have the desire to enter into an adventure. A huge industry like movie.

Years of experience
Yassir Fayez is a film director and producer, in addition to more than 10 years of experience in professional media as well as cultural management.
He began working in journalism and then moved to work professionally in the field of video and films. The short feature film “Hail the Dogs,” which he co-directed, won the Black Elephant Award – Festival Sudan Independent Film Festival 2020. The short documentary “Journey to Kenya,” which he co-wrote, won the Special Jury Prize at the same festival. His current film, “Bougainvillea” won a post-production grant from the Global Film and Media Initiative. The film will be shown in several Festivals this year and next year. Yassir has been working as the creative director of In Deep Visions for Visual and Visual Production, since 2016, and as a producer and film director at Slow Fast Productions since 2014. He created and managed a training program for arts and video in Ukraine 2018 and Egypt 2019. In addition to his participation in Other cultural programs in Ethiopia, Tunisia and Lebanon. He worked as a television producer on Sudanese Channel 24 and Medad Media in various programs since 2016. Co-Executive Director of the Sudanese Voices artistic association which produced audio-visual materials (2015-2016), and co-founded and directed it for Filmmaking Initiative for Children (2015-2019) which worked generally in Sudan.