Pan Africanism : Genocide survivors seek film cash

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An association of survivors of the 1994 Rwanda genocide has called on the makers of films about the atrocity to pay royalties to those who survived it.
Three films on the Rwandan genocide have been made in the last year.

One of them, the Oscar-nominated Hotel Rwanda, was screened for the first time at a stadium in the capital, Kigali this week, in front of 10,000 people.

The makers of Hotel Rwanda say they are contributing to a fund for genocide survivors, through the United Nations.

The UN foundation will help orphans, train doctors and nurses, and set up a film school in Rwanda, it says.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4420427.stm
 
Hard to just jump in with an opinion here. What are the normal circumstances for receiving royalties? What are the nationalities and racial identification of the filmmakers? Did the survivors contribute anything to the making of the film like information, testimomy or narrative? Lots of important yet unanswered questions.
 

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