Flora M'mbugu-Schelling is a Tanzanian documentary filmmaker, best known for her film These Hands.Bisschoff, L. (2014) Women's stories and struggles in "These Hands" (Flora M'mbugu-Schelling). In: Bisschoff, L. and Murphy, D. (eds.) Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema. Legenda: Oxford. Claire Robertson, Film Reviews, The American Historical Review, Vol. 101, Issue 4, October 1996, pp.1142-3.
Life Born in Tanzania, M'mbugu-Schelling studied at the Tanzanian School of Journalism before doing further study in Germany and France. Her debut film, Kumekucha (1987), won a gold medal at the New York International Film Festival.Flora M'mbugu-Schelling , African Film Festival. These Hands documents the work of Mozambican refugee women, breaking rocks in a quarry in Tanzania.
Filmography Kumekucha [From Sun Up], 1987 These Hands, 1992 Shida and Matatizo, 1993
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