Word: ekhayelitsha
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Dates: during 2006-2006
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...want a critic for a guide, this may be the festival for you. Each April in Champaign, Ill., the TV and Chicago Sun-Times film reviewer selects movies--from the famed to the obscure, like U-Carmen eKhayelitsha--that he feels have fallen through the cracks...
...Mark Danford-May, writer and director of U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, based on a South African opera, which premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival but has yet to find an American distributor, said he believes the film's inclusion at Ebert's festival will be a big help. "His support really can help open doors," Danford-May said. "We're hoping to find an American distributor, and after being picked to come here, we know that his opinion matters...
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