Twiga Stars

TWIGA STARS: TANZANIA’S SOCCER SISTERS a documentary by nisha ligon Twiga Stars: Tanzania’s Soccer Sisters is a feature-length documentary by Nisha Ligon. It follows a season in the life of Tanzania’s women’s national football (i.e. soccer) team, affectionately nicknames the Twiga Stars. Tanzanian football legend Charles Boniface Mkwasa selects thirty young and talented female footballers to come together as the national women’s football team and prepare as a guest team for the West African Football Tournament, which will include world powerhouses like Nigeria and Ghana. We follow the Twiga Stars through the gruel of intensive training, the heartbreak of team cuts, and the tragedies of life that strike along the way… but through it all one theme resounds: a undying love for the game of football. The Twiga Stars are not just a team. They are family, and together they fight on to prove wanawake wanaweza (meaning “women are capable”) and earn the support and attention of their football crazy nation. Though the setbacks are many, the Twiga Stars keep on playing and smiling, and together they achieve what no one could have expected. Twiga Stars: Tanzania’s Soccer Sisters provides an intimate, energetic and uplifting portrait of young women trying to make it as footballers in one of the poorest countries in the world. Twiga Stars: Tanzania’s Soccer Sisters premiered in December 2010 at the Africa International Film Festival. It will also be screening at the Thin Line Film Festival, the San Diego Black Film Festival, the Africa World Documentary Festival and many others throughout 2011. DONATE TO THIS FILM THROUGH WOMEN MAKE MOVIES http://www.majanimedia.com/home.php?category=mainhttp://www.wmm.com/filmmakers/sponsored_projects.aspx?cmd=fmAbout_files/MpiraVisualSupplement_Compressed.pdfshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1

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Director/ Producer: Nisha Ligon

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A Tanzania/ Thailand/ USA production

Filmed in High Definition 1080 24p


Fiscally Sponsored by Women Make Movies


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SCREENINGS


If you would like to host a screening, please email me at nisha.ligon@gmail.com and I will send you a DVD and publicity materials!



PAST SCREENINGS:


February 20, 2011, 2:00 pm  - Denton, TX at the Campus Theater (Thin Line Film Festival)


January 29,  2011, 10:00 am - San Diego, CA at the Regal UA Theater Horton Plaza (San Diego Black Film Festival)


December 3, 2010 - Port Harcourt, Nigeria at Genesis Deluxe Cinemas screen 2 (Africa International Film Festival)


March 5 - 12, 2011 - Cave Hill, Barbados (Africa World Documentary Festival)


March 31 -  April 3, 2011 - Vail, CO (Vail Film Festival)


April 8 - 10, 2011 - Palm Beach, FL (Palm Beach Women’s International Film Festival)


April 20 - 23, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon (Africa World Documentary Festival)


May 12 - 14, 2011 - St. Louis, MO (Africa World Documentary Festival)


Make a donation to help the Twiga Stars team on the road to the All-African Games.  All money received before Aug. 2011 will help the team increase practice and prep time by paying for camp expenses and allowances for players beyond what has been allotted by the Tanzania Football Federation.

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