Through the Door of No Return (1997)
80 min
In a personal quest, filmmaker Shirikiana Aina made this documentary capturing her efforts to learn more about her father, who died when she was a child. A Michigan man descended from slaves, he was labeled a radical by the FBI. Aina traveled to Ghana, documenting an oral history of slavery in Elmina, a port where Africans were warehoused before shipping to the New World. She also filmed African-Americans who have established a colony in Ghana, choosing to raise their families there.
- Data de estreia
- 6 de setembro de 1997
- País de origem
- Ainda indisponível
Equipe
- Shirikiana Aina · Diretor(a)
- Shirikiana Aina · Roteirista
- Shirikiana Aina · Produtor(a)
- Haile Gerima · Produtor(a)
- Rick Butler · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Haile Gerima · Editor(a)