Mo & Me Reels With Delight After Top Doc Prize

The award of the Grand Jury Prize crowns several months of stirring achievement for Mo & Me and comes just days after the documentary was presented with the Silver Screen Award at the 39th US International Film and Video Festival in California.

Directed by Roger Mills (“Himalaya”, “Around the World in 80 Days”) and Murad Rayani (“Refusing To Die”) and narrated by Salim Amin, Mo & Me offers an unflinching and deeply personal recollection of the man whose TV footage of the 1984 Ethiopian famine so galvanized the world.

The documentary depicts Mohamed Amin as an unbending, unforgiving and unapologetically rambunctious paterfamilias whose hunger for “the story” bore him aloft in triumph amidst the turmoil of Africa’s passage through the twentieth century.

Underpinning the 95-minute feature are extraordinary images from the vast Amin archive - currently available at World Picture Network in New York. The stills mark and frame the man’s life as it unfolds in a vivid and, at times, grisly tableau of international politics.

Fuelled by a potent mixture of talent and ambition, Amin’s stubborn courage, innate resilience and wily perseverance loom large as he survives incarceration, torture and, later, amputation in the course of his indefatigable quest to inform, alert and chronicle.

Speaking from Nairobi about his latest award, filmmaker Salim Amin said:

“This is a fabulous day after three long years. The award of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature is a wonderful, thrilling and inspiring honor for me and my team at Camerapix and our production partners at Al-Jazeera International. I thank them all and I applaud the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival for their breadth of vision and their commitment to independent filmmaking.”

CONTACT: Sam Garrick of Quantock, +1-347-284-6614, press@quantockltd.com for Salim Amin / Camerapix.


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