About the movie. “It is my certitude that after genocide, only art can give back sense.” - Toni Morrison, Literature Nobel Prize 1993.
This is a dance movie, with a window to the historical context of the Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994. Both the cast and the production crew, in full artistic integrity, never forgot that the sixty thousand victims of Murambi suffered a horrific fate as did one million others like them. With this movie we want to be part of giving back to all of them their dignity, Agaciro, by reviving them after twenty years, and never forget them.
About the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda.
You should start your information gathering at:
http://www.genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/index.php/Welcome_to_Genocide_Archive_Rwanda
http://www.genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/index.php/Welcome_to_Genocide_Archive_Rwanda
About Murambi.
The Murambi Technical School, now known as the Murambi Genocide Memorial Centre, is situated in the Murambi district in southern Rwanda. It was the site of a massacre during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. When the killings started, Tutsis in the region tried to hide at a local church. However, the bishop and mayor lured them into a trap by sending them to the technical school, claiming that French troops would protect them there. On April 16, 1994, some 65,000 Tutsis ran to the school. After the victims were told to gather there, water was cut off and no food was available, so that the people were too weak to resist. After defending themselves for a few days using stones, the Tutsi were overrun on April 21. The French soldiers disappeared and the school was attacked by Hutu Interahamwe militiamen. Some 45,000 Tutsi were murdered at the school, and almost all of those who managed to escape were killed the next day when they tried to hide in a nearby church. The French brought in heavy equipment to dig several pits where many thousands of bodies were placed. They then placed a volleyball court over the mass graves in an attempt to hide what happened. Among the bodies currently displayed are many children and infants. The school building is now a genocide museum exhibiting the skeletons and mummified bodies of some of the thousands of people killed there.
Source: Wikipedia
More on Murambi:
http://www.genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/index.php?title=Murambi
About Abatarutwa Cultural Troupe.
After the Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda a bunch of young people, mainly orphans, from Kanombe got together to develop and prosper. They created the Abatarutwa (We are the best) Cultural Troupe and are performing Rwandan Traditional Dances with great success. They rehearse on the grounds of the Presidential Palace Museum, the palace of former president Habyarimana. In 2010 they performed their first contemporary dance ‘UBWOROHERANE’ (Tolerance) a choreography by Guy Beaujot. Now the company counts forty dancers of whom twelve completed a Contemporary Dance short course at the Amahoro National Stadium, Remera in Kigali, Rwanda, under the auspices of the Ministry of Sports and Culture. They are all performing in the ‘Agaciro’ movie and in the live performances of the choreography.
About the Camera Men.
Aaron Niyomwungeri, Director & Photographer at Alnup Rwanda Films. Studied at Kampala Film School (Uganda).
Uwayishima Simeon (Dr-Wai), Artist, Works on his first movie ‘Narrow Gate’ and runs his own studio, Perfect Studio.
About the Post Production Editor, Rob Camies.
Rob is Producer Video and Videoconferencing at the UNESCO-IHE Multimedia Centre.
About Guy Beaujot, director, producer.
While Guy Beaujot, studied social sciences he also attended several contemporary dance courses and started to give contemporary dance workshops himself. He developed dance and creative-therapeutic (action) techniques when he worked for several years with disabled children. Later he experienced all the facets of theater life as tour manager with world known contemporary dance companies, as light designer for dance and theater companies and as light technician and stage manager in several theaters all over Europe. After re-educating himself as an I.T. technician he started to work at UNESCO-IHE in 2002. He currently runs a contemporary dance project for students and staff for the above mentioned Institute and is responsible for the contemporary dance development of the Abatarutwa Cultural Troupe in Kanombe, Rwanda, since January 2014.. He is guest actor for NuovoCinema49, a semi-professional film making group, Lately he started to write poetic prose and still creates choreographic concepts for cultural events. ‘Agaciro’ is his first movie as director, producer after he created the choreography with the same name with the Abatarutwa company.
Source: Wikipedia
More on Murambi:
http://www.genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/index.php?title=Murambi
About Abatarutwa Cultural Troupe.
After the Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda a bunch of young people, mainly orphans, from Kanombe got together to develop and prosper. They created the Abatarutwa (We are the best) Cultural Troupe and are performing Rwandan Traditional Dances with great success. They rehearse on the grounds of the Presidential Palace Museum, the palace of former president Habyarimana. In 2010 they performed their first contemporary dance ‘UBWOROHERANE’ (Tolerance) a choreography by Guy Beaujot. Now the company counts forty dancers of whom twelve completed a Contemporary Dance short course at the Amahoro National Stadium, Remera in Kigali, Rwanda, under the auspices of the Ministry of Sports and Culture. They are all performing in the ‘Agaciro’ movie and in the live performances of the choreography.
About the Camera Men.
Aaron Niyomwungeri, Director & Photographer at Alnup Rwanda Films. Studied at Kampala Film School (Uganda).
Uwayishima Simeon (Dr-Wai), Artist, Works on his first movie ‘Narrow Gate’ and runs his own studio, Perfect Studio.
About the Post Production Editor, Rob Camies.
Rob is Producer Video and Videoconferencing at the UNESCO-IHE Multimedia Centre.
About Guy Beaujot, director, producer.
While Guy Beaujot, studied social sciences he also attended several contemporary dance courses and started to give contemporary dance workshops himself. He developed dance and creative-therapeutic (action) techniques when he worked for several years with disabled children. Later he experienced all the facets of theater life as tour manager with world known contemporary dance companies, as light designer for dance and theater companies and as light technician and stage manager in several theaters all over Europe. After re-educating himself as an I.T. technician he started to work at UNESCO-IHE in 2002. He currently runs a contemporary dance project for students and staff for the above mentioned Institute and is responsible for the contemporary dance development of the Abatarutwa Cultural Troupe in Kanombe, Rwanda, since January 2014.. He is guest actor for NuovoCinema49, a semi-professional film making group, Lately he started to write poetic prose and still creates choreographic concepts for cultural events. ‘Agaciro’ is his first movie as director, producer after he created the choreography with the same name with the Abatarutwa company.
