CCA
4
Saturday 20th October
8.45pm-9.45pm
 Quilombo
Country
Leonard Abrams
USA ï 73 mins ï UK Premiere
Brazil, once the world's largest slave colony, was a brutal
and deadly place for millions of Africans. But many thousands
escaped or rebelled, creating their own communities in Brazil's
untamed hinterland. Today they navigate the hazards of the modern
world.
Narrated by Chuck D, Quilombo
Country (Quilombo is an Angolan
word meaning encampment)
portrays these contemporary
communities, which can be found
across Brazil from the north-eastern
sugar-growing regions to the heart of
the Amazon rainforest, and explores
their culture from hunting, fishing,
construction and agriculture to rare
footage of local musical performances,
syncretic Umbanda and Pajelanca
ceremonies, Tambor de Crioula,
Carimbo and Boi Bumba drum and dance celebrations.
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Closing Party
CCA Cafe
Sunday 21st Oct 10.30pm
 Sheila
Stewart is one of Scotland's traditional Traveller storytellers,
and Ballad singers. She has a rich repertoire and has a style
of singing that is strong and passionate and distinctively her
own yet in the fi nest mainstream of the Scottish tradition.
Last in the Line is screened in CCA 4 earlier in the day 1.15pm-
2.00pm where Sheila will also read from her biography of her
mother (Belle Stewart) Queen Amang The Heather.
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