TXAN FILM
Txan Film Productions & Visual Arts, Inc.
Txan Film Productions & Visual Arts, Inc. is a four-member production company based in Los Angeles, California that produces audiovisual materials (documentaries, docudramas, fiction films, etc.) that relate to the societies and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora in the Atlantic region (islands of the Caribbean, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe) and the Americas. We aim to explore aspects of African Diaspora history and culture that are not widely known or are normally overlooked in mainstream popular and scholarly discourse. Our first series of projects focuses on Cape Verde, an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean some 370 miles off the coast of West Africa. We are in the process of developing six feature-length documentary films that examine the rich culture and varied life experiences of Cape Verdeans in Cape Verde and around the world, covering such diverse themes as history, art and festival life, music, education, language, politics, socio-economic and environment issues, immigration and globalization.
We believe each people, regardless of what culture they are a part, are the keepers of the land. They know how the environment functions and how it can be maintained. It is important that a way be found to help people survive in their respective environments. The world is slowly coming to the realization that survival of indigenous peoples is necessary to human survival as a whole.
These islands were important trans-shipment points during the early trans-Atlantic slave trade and the labor of countless African and Afro-Creole peoples who passed through and settled there helped build the global power base of the colonial nations. It is only fair, five centuries since the inception of a lucrative slave trade, that the nations that benefited from this trade look toward assisting the impoverished peoples left behind by progress.
Our Mission
Our mission is based on the retraction of rare documentation, preservation and dissemination of cultural and historical productions next to the communities: handle-verdianas, luso-caboverdiana, Hispanic, African and caribbean with particular emphasis in the handle-verdiano-American, Afro-American binding to it with its culture its history throughout the five centuries.
This work has far reaching implications not only for the long term benefit of the people of Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe, but is a story that reaches into every facet of our history and presents new ways to think about sustainable development based on a lessening of the use of resources whose extraction leads to climate change and environmental degradation in general.
Our projects are closely on Portugal, Spain, Italy and other countries that had contributed for the expansion of the values and the culture occidental person for the new world, the one that if together the group of the countries of the Macaronesia, where we incorporate on subjects to the culture, history, to the etnia, the tradition, the gastronomia and the ways of life of the peoples.
Our films are catalogued by subjects, being able to be consulted way Internet for students of different academicos levels, well thus for the education of the society, in the direction to develop cultural Inter bows between all the peoples of the world, nominated next to the communities handle-verdianas, Portuguese, Afros-American in U.S.A., Europe, Caribbean, Africa and the PALOPs.
Our professionals ploughs invited you create and develop different kinds of projects with excellent results, which were distinguished with different types of awards from the social and educational institutions at to higher level, such academies, international film festivals, advice, consulting, conferences and workshops.
