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Mugabe and the White African
UK 2009 | 90 mins | 12A
Ten years ago Robert Mugabe initiated a policy that enabled the government to seize land without compensation from white farmers in Zimbabwe. 75-year-old Michael Campbell refused to cooperate and took his grievance to an international tribunal in Namibia, claiming that he was the victim of racial discrimination. Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson’s Oscar-nominated documentary follows Campbell’s battle over a one-and-a-half year period as the hearing is repeatedly delayed and he and his family suffer attacks on their property and threats of physical violence and worse. Filming covertly, at sometimes considerable risk to their own safety, the filmmakers tell a fascinating personal story that paints a sobering picture of modern Zimbabwean justice.

Andrew Thompson and Lucy Bailey

Co-director Andrew Thompson makes his documentary feature debut with Mugabe and the White African. His previous TV work as a producer includes The Secret Life of Seahorses (1996) for the series QED and the episodes Dinosaurs in Your Garden (1998), Life Blood (2001) and We Are the Aliens (2006) for Horizon. He also directed Life Blood and The Secret Life of Arthur Ransome (2005).

Lucy Bailey previously worked as a dancer in Chris Lightwing's mockumentary The War Against Terror: The Musical (2004) and directed the short film You Can Run... (2005).


Watch the trailer for Mugabe and the White African.
Mugabe and the White African
directors
Lucy Bailey
Andrew Thompson
starring
Mike Campbell
Ben Freeth