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MALAGASY MANKANY
(Legends of Madagascar)
Contact:
Haminiaina Ratovoarivony
6828 N Lakewood Avenue, Unit 1
Chicago IL 60626 – USA
haminiaina@yahoo.com
Cell: +1 312 730 7844
PROGRAMMING DESCRIPTORS
Original Title: MALAGASY MANKANY
English title: LEGENDS OF MADAGASCAR
YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012
COUNTRYOF PRODUCTION: Madagascar
RUNNING TIME: 93 minutes
FORMS: Narrative Fiction / Feature
GENRES: Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Coming of Age / Road movie / Satire
NICHES: African / Third World / Youth-Teen / Feel good-make think
FORMAT: 16:9 / color / stereo
SYNOPSIS
“Legends of Madagascar” takes on numerous issues in contemporary Madagascar: racial
tensions between the native population and Indian immigrants, military corruption, and the
challenge to preserve indigenous traditions amidst economic growth. Jimi, a young man
studying in the capital must return home to his village when he learns (via radio
announcement) that his father is deathly ill. The hero and his Rastafarian friend Bob
scrounge up the money to buy a bus ticket home. They fail to raise enough, but fortunately
their gangster friend Dylan needs to skip town and offers them a ride. Signs of political strife
are everywhere, as are military checkpoints. Yet they encounter a spirit of camaraderie
everywhere they go.
DIRESTOR’S SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Haminiaina Ratovoarivony (Hamy Ratovo) is a filmmaker from Madagascar who battles to
revive the Malagasy cinema. When he was a kid, Hamy found a 8mm movie camera in his
dad's belongings. When he asked what it was, his dad told him what it was for: a tool to
share ideas with others and to transform the society through images and stories. After
receiving a B.A. in Sociology, he moved to France to study Cinema. By combining his
knowledge of social sciences and his love for images, he is able to reflect social problems not
only in Madagascar, but in Africa in general. “Legends of Madagascar” is his first film.
LIST OF MAIN CAST
Sanjy Valeska
Lead Actor / Citizenship: Madagascar / Gender: Female
Hamy Ratovo
Lead actor / Citizenship: Madagascar / genre: Male
Ben Elissar Chazuily
Lead Actor / Citizenship: Madagascar / Gender: Male
Mahon Andoniaina
Lead Actor / Citizenship: Madagascar / Gender: Male
LIST OF MAIN CREW
Haminiaina Ratovoarivony
Screenwriter / Director / Editor / Producer
Citizenship: Madagascar
Liva Razafindrambao
DP / Camera Operator
Citizenship: Madagascar
Miora Ranaivosoa
Sound recordist
Citizenship: Madagascar
Haminiaina Ratovoarivony
Original Music / Composer
Citizenship: Madagascar
PRESS EXTRACTS FESTIVAL AND AWARDS
Jury Award Winner at the 14th Festival de cinémas d'Afrique in Angers, France.
Jury Award Winner of the Diaspora section at the 13th Hollywood Black Film Festival, USA.
Audience Award Winner at the 10th Festival Cine Africano Cordoba, Spain.
Received the Jury Special Mention at the 16th Festival du Cinéma Africain de Khouribga,
Morrocco.
Selected in competition to the 21st Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, USA
Selected in competition to the 23rd FESPACO, Ouagadougou, Africa
Selected in competition to the 5th FESTICAB, Burundi, Africa
Selected in competition to 13th Festival Lumières d'Afrique in Besancon, France
Selected in competition to 11th Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique in Apt, France
Selected in competition to 13th Francophone Film Festival of Kalamazoo, USA
Selected in competition to 30th Festival Vues d'Afrique in Montreal, Canada
Invited to the 11th African Diaspora International Film Festival in Chicago, USA
Invited to the 8th Festival Cinémas d'Afrique in Lausane, Switzerland
Invited to the 3rd Festival International des Films de la Diaspora Africaine in Paris, France
Invited to the 1st Festival de Film du Boeny, Madagascar
Invited to the 2nd Augen Blicke Afrika - Afrikanisches Filmfest in Hamburg, Germany
Invited to the 6th Cinema Africa! 2013 in Bayreuth, Germany
Invited to the 13th Afrikanische Filmtage in Saarbrücken, Germany
Invited to the 7th Cine Regards Africains – Films en Festival in Bièvre, France
Invited to the 20th Festival International des Films d'Afrique et des Iles, La Reunion
Invited to the Salaam Film Festival in Denmark
Invited to the 21st African Diaspora International Film Festival in New York, USA
Invited to the 3rd Cine Afriqua 86 Film Festival in Poitiers, France
Invited to the 2nd Maputo Film Week in Mozambique
Invited to the Africlap Film Festival in Toulouse, France
Invited to the 21st New York African Film Festival, USA
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PRESS EXTRACTS
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
African themes power Facets Festival by Michael Phillips
The road-tripping "Legends of Madagascar" is about a journey home, not away. It's also a
spirited fable of what a sociology degree might do in the hands of the right young Malagasy
students.
CHICAGO READER
A “Living newspaper” from Madagascar by Ben Sachs
As Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote of Spike Lee's Jungle Fever, Madagascar is "a kind of 'living
newspaper' where front-page stories exist in proximity to one another without necessarily
linking up, and where it's left to the audience to make some of the vital connections." And like
much of Lee's work, it's lively and impassioned stuff—too entertaining to come off as a
screed.
L’EXPRESS DE MADAGASCAR
Madagascar: Cinéma - Malagasy Mankany aux traits américains par Domoina Ratsara
Un film bien fait avec un casting qui réunit des comédiens au talent prometteur (Sanjy
Valeska, Mahon Andoniaina, Ben Elissar et Hamy Ratovo). Dylan, le bad boy briseur de
coeur, Bob, l'insouciance incarnée, Jimi, l'homme amoureux, juste presque parfait et la
papillonnante Charu. Décors superbes et plans magnifiques, le tout dans un style américain
très prononcé. Autre point à souligner, l'audace du réalisateur à aborder la question tabou du
sexe, sans complexe et sans vouloir bousculer les moeurs.
RTB – RADIO TELEVISION BURKINABE
« Malagasy Mankany »: Température d’une société! Par Aboubakar Sanfo
« Malagasy Mankany » (Légendes de Madagascar) est un film plein d’humour qui dépeint la
société malgache. Il a été réalisé en 2012 par le malgache Haminiaina Ratovoarivony.
L’homme a écrit, réalisé et produit ce film qui est son premier long métrage. Dans
« Malagasy Mankany », conte et réalité se côtoient, la réalisation nous gratifie souvent de
magnifiques séquences durant le voyage. La narration, par l’usage de coups de théâtres
rend le film captivant. « Malagasy Mankany », c’est tout de même 93 minutes de rires, de
suspense et de réflexion et aussi le regard d’un homme de la diaspora sur son pays.
ANGERS MAG INFO
Cinémas d’Afrique: Malagasy Mankany, les légendes de Madagascar par Lise Bouhier
Le film se termine avec un certain humour, démontrant que les jeunes Malgaches croient
dans leurs rêves et voient leur avenir avec une certaine sérénité, l’un personnage devient
même le président de la république malgache. « Et si cette jeunesse malgache et plus
globalement africaine, était celle qui allait transformer notre société? » C’est la question que
se pose Haminiaina Ratovoarivony et qui transpire à travers ce film qui mérite le détour.
www.legendsofmadagascar.com
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Stills from the movie
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Filmmakers’ portrait
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