Rencontrer (To Meet) - Available on DVD
Rencontrer is a 30-minute cinéma verité documentary. We follow 6 African immigrants of various cultural heritages, in the course of their daily lives, giving us a wider and broader perspective of the diverse African immigrant experiences in Philadelphia. We traverse various layers and cultures as we allow the camera to intimately capture the daily rhythms and routines of their new homeland. The 5-minute pieces screened individually, preceding feature-length African films as part of Reel Voices' Africa Film Series. Rencontrer screened at the 2004 Philadelphia Festival of Independents, Northwest Folklife FilmFest and broadcast on WYBE-TV's Philadelphia Stories in July 2004.