I AM BISHA
RECOMMENDED - Educational Media Reviews Online | Jury Award for Best Short - Full Frame | Rory Peck Award for New Features African Studies • Peace & Conflict Studies • Media Studies • Visual Culture Date of Completion: 2018 | Run Time: 14 minutes | Language: Arabic with English subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director & Producer: Roopa Gogineni Former president Omar al-Bashir of Sudan dropped over four thousand bombs on villages across the Nuba Mountains. Ganja, the 26 year old pacifist son of a rebel commander, witnessed a bomb drop meters from his home. He has never found a way to fight back - until now. Ganja became President Bashir. Or to be precise, he became the man who controls Bashir’s head. Ganja and his friends in the Nuba Mountains acquired a puppet of the dictator and filmed a satirical web series called “Bisha TV.” The show follows the president’s schemes to raise money for a campaign of violent suppression across Sudan. Over one million peo