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  title info:
    title: They are we
  name:
    name part: Christopher, Emma
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: film director,
    role:
      role term: film producer.
  name:
    name part: Unshackled Media (Firm)
    role:
      role term: production company.
  name:
    name part: University of Sydney
  name:
    name part: Australian Research Council
  name:
    name part: Icarus Films
    role:
      role term: film distributor.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  genre: Feature films.
  genre: Music.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: spa
  language:
    language term: men
  language:
    language term: cpe
  physical description:
    form: videodisc
    extent: 1 videodisc (77 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  abstract: They are we is the story of a remarkable reunion that takes place 170 or so years after a family was driven apart by the ravages of the transatlantic slave trade. In Central Cuba, proud members of the Gangá-Longobá, a small Afro-Cuban ethnic group, have kept their unique heritage alive. Incredibly, through decades of brutal enslavement, independence wars, and then the denying of all religions after the revolution, they have retained a collection of distinct songs and dances that one of their ancestors brought from Africa as a slave. Each December 17th they still perform them at the San Lazaro ceremony. After a chance discovery while working in West Africa, director Emma Christopher spent two years showing a film of the Gangá-Longobá songs and dances to several thousand people across Sierra Leone. Eventually, in an isolated village with no road access, one man looked at another in joy and wonder as he watched a recording of the Gangá-Longobá songs and said, "They are we!" Then the villagers joined in with others of the Gangá-Longobá songs, still recognizing them clearly despite all the years of separation. Returning to Cuba, Emma showed her findings to the Gangá-Longobá. "We are not so alone anymore", said one of their number, woodcarver and artist Alfredo Duquesne. Later he would say that knowing where he came from "is divine". In early 2013, after the law changed allowing them to freely leave Cuba, a trip was at last made to visit Sierra Leone. It turned into a remarkable celebration, a rare recognition of the tenacity and resolve of one young girl who once made the awful journey from Africa to Cuba, but never let her memories of home die. They are we tells the story of the Gangá-Longobá and of the village their ancestor called home. It is the story of how, just very occasionally, a family separated by the slave trade can reunite for the good of all.
  note: Unshackled Media ; The University of Sydney ; Australian Research Council ; a film by Emma Christopher ; director & producer, Dr. Emma Christopher.
  note: Documentary.
  note: This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
  note: DVD release of the 2013 documentary.
  note: Featuring: Joe Allie, Lucy Amara, Baggie Kpanabum, Solomon Musa, Chief Mabudu Pokawa, Humberto Casonova, Alfredo Duquesne, Elvira Fumero, Yandrys Izquierdo, Magdelena Mora (Piyuya).
  note: DVD-R; widescreen; monaural.
  note: Narrated in English; Spanish, Mende, Krio and English spoken with English subtitles.
  note: Directors of photography, Javier Labrador, Lansana Mansaray (Barmmy Boy) ; editor, Joanna Montero.
  subject:
    geographic code: nwcu---
    geographic code: f-sl---
  subject:
    geographic: Perico (Cuba)
    topic: Civilization
    topic: African influences
  subject:
    geographic: Perico (Cuba)
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
    geographic: Cuba
    geographic: Perico
  subject:
    topic: Blacks
    geographic: Cuba
    geographic: Perico
  subject:
    topic: Blacks
    geographic: Cuba
    topic: Rites and ceremonies
  subject:
    topic: Blacks
    geographic: Cuba
    geographic: Perico
    genre: Music
  subject:
    geographic: Sierra Leone
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
    geographic: Sierra Leone
  subject:
    topic: Blacks
    geographic: Sierra Leone
  subject:
    topic: Rites and ceremonies
    geographic: Sierra Leone
  subject:
    topic: Blacks
    geographic: Sierra Leone
    topic: Music
  subject:
    topic: Blacks
  subject:
    topic: Blacks
    topic: Rites and ceremonies
  subject:
    topic: Civilization
    topic: African influences
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
  subject:
    topic: Manners and customs
  subject:
    topic: Rites and ceremonies
  subject:
    geographic: Cuba
  subject:
    geographic: Cuba
    geographic: Perico
  subject:
    geographic: Sierra Leone
  classification: F1760 .T54 2015
  record info:
    record content source: MUU
    record creation date: 150504
    record change date: 20170928112702.0
    record identifier: in00003613898
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng