Al Santana Productions

DURBAN 400

Durban 400 is a 53 minute documentary about a group of grassroots activists of the same name who, in the fall of 2001, attended the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance’s. Their goal was to address the issue of reparations for the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, and colonialism as crimes against humanity. Shot in cinema verite´ style the video, co-produced with Iman Drammeh of the Drammeh Institute, follows the group as they develop lobbying strategies, educate its members about political issues related to racism and colonialism, stage demonstrations, and march with South African labor groups in a show of solidarity against globalism, racism, and landlessness.