Standing Among the Living
North American Premiere
Country: Sierra Leone, UK
Language: English, Krio, Themne
Subtitles: English
Running Time: 43min
Film Year: 2019
Category: Cinema 360
Guided by the fear of his present being forgotten, and tired of outside voices being the only ones telling his home country’s history, Tyson Conteh decided not to let history repeat itself. Living in Sierra Leone, he was experiencing the Ebola outbreak first-hand: the pain, the deaths of family and friends, the grief, the destructive nature of tragedies that tear whole communities apart. As one of the only people with access to a film camera, and with his mind set on a mission, Tyson filmed his way through Makeni, one of the largest cities in Sierra Leone, capturing the harrowing effects of sickness on his community and the lives around him.
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credits
Director: Tyson Conteh, Mungo Benson, Sam Liebmann
Producer: Mungo Benson, Sam Liebmann, Dershe Samaria, Patrice Etienne, Mohamed Special Conteh (aka Tyson)
Executive Producer: Mungo Benson, Sam Liebmann, Dershe Samaria, Patrice Etienne, Mohamed Special Conteh (aka Tyson)
Production Company: Kamrakasi Films Sam Liebmann Documentaries Nuwave Pictures Future View Film Group
Music: Arthur Rathbone Pullen (Sizzle Studios)
Cinematographer: Mohamed Special Conteh (aka Tyson), Ibrahim J Kamara, Ibrahim A Kamara
Editor: Mungo Benson, Sam Liebmann
Tyson Conteh, Mungo Benson, Sam Liebmann
Tyson Conteh lives in Sierra Leone. He is the director of the Future View Film Group (FVFG), a collective of 40 young filmmakers and actors, which he founded ten years ago.
Mungo Benson is a UK-based director. He has directed the short “Dancing with Devils” (2008) and the feature length films Castles Made of Sand (2013) and Sacracide (2017).
Sam Liebmann is a documentary filmmaker based in London. He works with Tyson's group Future View Film Group, and together they have collaborated on a number of documentaries and educational films in Sierra Leone.
