Photo by Chris Meyer Patrick O'Meara (left) and Peter Davis

Producer, director and documentarian Peter Davis became deeply involved in the anti-apartheid movement in his native South Africa 20 years ago. He has produced more than 30 full-length documentary films on social and political issues, including South Africa: the White Laager, a history of Afrikaner nationalism; Generations of Resistance, an historic account of African rebellion against white rule up to the student uprising of 1976; Winnie Mandela and Remember Mandela, which was shown on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta in 1988. Patrick O’Meara, dean of international programs at IU and a native South African, talked with Davis about their country’s history and re-birth when Davis was on the Bloomington campus earlier this month.

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Introduction
• "In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid" produced and directed by Peter Davis and Daniel Riesenfeld
"Come Back Africa" directed by Lionel Rogosin
• "Cry Freedom" produced and directed by Richard Attenborough
Dolly Rathebe
• Film in South Africa now
• AIDS in Africa
Winnie Mandela
• "Hoagy" directed by Peter Davis and co-produced by Peter Davis and
Pat Kellar
• Current projects
• Changes in South Africa
• AIDS in South Africa
• Peter Davis and Indiana University

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