- event type:WOMEX 24 Film Library
- date:24 Oct 2024 - 26 Oct 2024
- time:11:00 - 17:00
- city/area:Manchester
- venue:Film Library, Manchester Central
- country:United Kingdom
- event posted by:Piranha Arts
Directed by Cécile Embleton
Duration 22’ | English
Exploring movement, touch, imagination and love, the final film in the Colours of Sound triptych reveals the sensorial world of a blind musician and celebrates the resonating power of music. We meet British-Nigerian soprano, Victoria Oruwari, who woke up in blackness after an eye operation aged six and began experiencing synaesthesia. Finding the colours she saw became stronger with music, she embarked on the beginnings of her musical career.
Cécile Embleton is a documentary director based in the UK. Her first feature-length documentary, Mother Vera, is supported by Sundance, won first prize at Locarno First Look 2023 and the First Look Prize at the HotDocs Forum 2021. The film will screen in competition at the London Film Festival 2024.
Producers of the film, Baluji Shrivastav and Linda Shanson, from Baluji Music Foundation, will be attending WOMEX 2024.
Production Country, Year UK, 2024
Produced by Cécile Embleton & Seemab Gull
Executive Producer Alex Usborne
Associate Producers Hesta & David Spiro
Director of Photography Cécile Embleton
Editor Romain Beck
Sound Andrei Bako
