In Search of My Identity
In Search of My Identity, is a documentary film that explores questions related to the Cape Verdean identities, race, religion, ethnicity, art, music, language, and contemporaneous social questions surrounding these issues. In this feature documentary film we return back to the Portuguese colonial days of slavery, the post colonial African liberation movement in the Cape Verde Islands, Guine Bissau, Senegal, and Ghana.
In Search of My Identity traces the roots, narrates stories, and presents a culture, as it has never been seen before, showing the relationship between the West Coast of Africa and the East Coast of the Americas, particularly Brazil, Cuba, Curaçao, and the United States.
Guenny Pires’s personal quest to discover his true identity takes him on a journey across the Atlantic, building a cultural relationship from the West Coast of Africa to Western societies. What is my real identity?
This film shows how life experiences and struggles create encounters between generations, cultures, and histories. What was lost in the trans-Atlantic slave trade? How have Western societies been using economical power to recreate a new African identity? These are some of the questions the film will explore.
In Search of My Identity is a Txan Film production that has been filming in 15 different countries.
Executive Producer: Jeremy C. Gredone, Guenny K. Pires & Txan Film Productions & Visual Arts, Inc.;
Writer, producer & director: Guenny K. Pires;
Editors: Cedric Obanoon, Jeremy C. Gredone & TFPVA;
Original music: Djim Job;
Mix (Color & BW);
Format: 16/9 HDV.
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