رحلة اشراقة الجذورها السودانية

تحكي السيدة اشراقة للويد في فيلمها القصير( 48 دقيقة) رحلة عودتها الى جذورها السودانية واهلها في ودمدني بعد 26 عاما
من خروجها من السودان مع والدتها البريطانية واختها واخيها اثر وفاة والدها السوداني في حادث حركة.
وهناك وجدت دفء العشيرة وترحاب الاهل كما توضح الصور
وقد عرض الفيلم في بعض المهرجانات العالمية مثل مهرجان السينما الافريقية بايطاليا ومهرجان نيويورك للافلام والفيديو كما نال جائزة الفريد هيتشكوك التذكارية وجائزة الالفية لوسائط الثقافات المتعددةا
وكانت السيدة اشراقة قد تلقت دراسات عليا في مجال الصحافة الاذاعية والانتاج والتصوير الرقمي ونالت درجة الماجستير من جامعة ويستمنستر الامر الذي حفزها لكتابة واخراج وانتاج فيلمها ..

From Sudan to New York
A local film-maker has overcome obstacles to create a moving record of her meeting with long-lost Sudanese relatives.
Reporter Karen Armstrong interviewed Ishraga Lloyd
SALAAM Sudan, a frank and uplifting film about one woman's journey back to her native Sudan, has recently been screened at a New York film festival.
After more than a quarter of a century of separation from her Sudanese relatives, Ishraga Lloyd, of Third Avenue, Walthamstow, decided to film her family's reunion.
A lottery grant enabled Ishraga to receive training in film-making at the BBC in 2000. And after winning the Alfred Hitchcock memorial award from the Waltham Forest Arts Council in 2001, Ishraga decided to put her knowledge and training to good use, making Salaam Sudan.
She spent ten days in Wad Medani, Sudan, last March.
She narrates the events that take place in the 48-minute film, happy meetings with 200 members of her family, and a moving pilgrimage to her father's grave, which she had not seen for 26 years.
Her family were split up when she was just seven when her Sudanese father, Osman, was killed in a car accident.
She said: "My life changed after the death of my father. I had lived in Sudan's capital city, Khartoum, with my father, and my English mother, Sue. I had a fairly liberal upbringing speaking English at home and Arabic at a Christian school, which I attended with my brother, Nidal, and sister, Intisar.
"But after my father died we moved to Wad Medani to live with my Sudanese grandparents. We attended an Islamic school and did not speak any English. We spent 18 months there but my mother was so grief-stricken, everything in Sudan reminded her of my father.
"I think she felt that she had to come back to England, so we moved to Dovercourt in Essex, to live with my English grandparents."
Ishraga was now "westernised" under her grandparents' influence and explains in her film how her grandparents taught her that "British is best."
She also sadly recalls in the film that, as a child attending a UK school, she had her first experience of racism: "Despite this I did have a happy childhood in Essex but at that time I did not realise what I had left behind in Sudan,"she said.
It was only in her adult life that Ishraga began to feel a sense of loss and regret.
She said: "I suddenly felt that I had to track my family down. I got in touch with the Red Cross and after going down several blind alleys I contacted the Sudanese embassy. This all took one year, and I began to feel like giving up.
"But the embassy were so helpful and I was able to speak to the Sudanese ambassador, who actually came from my hometown of Wad Medani.
"The community is very strong out there, everyone knows everyone. It turns out that my uncle had taught the Sudanese ambassador maths at school. But we still couldn't find addresses or telephone numbers, we were still coming up against a few dead ends.
"In the end, the way I found my Sudanese family was bizarre. It turned out that the ambassador's brother is a friend of one of my Sudanese cousins. That's just what it came down to in the end, an amazing coincidence. I had almost got to a point where I felt like giving up."
Ishraga also describes in the film her fears of being reunited with her Sudanese family: "I was worried that our very different cultures would clash, and that I would not measure up to their expectations," she said.
But once in Wad Medani, Ishraga's fears were soon allayed: "My husband, Ben, and I were made to feel so welcome. They held an Islamic ceremony praising Allah for reuniting me with them. It was an extraordinary experience. The ceremony was really hypnotic; because of the chanting you are almost in a trance like state.
"At first I did find all the introductions extremely overwhelming. Generations of my family have lived in Wad Medani. The district they live in is named after my family's tribe, the Senahari. There were certain places I vividly remembered, and the smell of Sudanese cooking caused memories to come flooding back to me.
"Any worries or fears I had about meeting my family soon vanished. At the end of the day these people are my family. I am just so happy that I have found them."
Salaam Sudan received critical acclaim at the New York Film and Video Festival in September. Ishraga said: "I was just looking on the internet for film festivals I could enter and I found that one. I was really pleased when I heard that it had been screened."
Ishraga held a presentation on her film at Walthamstow School for Girls last month, and hopes other schools in Waltham Forest would like a screening of Salaam Sudan.
11:22 Thursday 14th November 2002

كرامة سلامة الوصول من عاداتنا السودانية

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المصدر

http://www.eppingforestguardian.co.uk/news/features/dis...dan_to_new_york.html

http://www.ishraga-lloyd.freeserve.co.uk/#contacts

(عدل بواسطة Elkhawad on 04-21-2003, 12:06 PM)