BANZA April 2016 Issue | Page 73

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Julie: Then what? It would be vain for us to believe film can change the world… Martin: “The world is not flat and films may not be, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five categories…Let us give art the place to improve the lives of the world’s poorest...” Which is why ZIFF films are shown in Stone Town in Zanzibar City as well as rural Zanzibari villages. Martin Mhando loves films! He loves making them and curating them. Associate Professor Martin Mhando is a Research Fellow in the School of Media, Communication and Culture at Murdoch University in Western Australia, as well as being Co-editor of the Journal of African Cinemas, published by Intellect, UK. >> 73