GRASSHOPPER REPUBLIC
Daniel McCabe | USA 2023 | 93 min. | Ganda with English subtitles
TUESDAY, 21.05. | 7 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
At the edge of a forest, a device is constructed from generators, large quantities of light bulbs, barrels and corrugated iron sheets. It’s time to wait for nightfall and hope that the traps will attract the coveted prey, the exact whereabouts of which are never known. Will the hunters have to move on and try their luck elsewhere?
GRASSHOPPER REPUBLIC follows a group of young men in Uganda who hope to make a quick buck by catching grasshoppers. But this endeavour comes at a price, as the UV light used in the process is harmful to the environment and people’s health. Told not only from the perspective of humans but also through the grasshoppers’ point of view, the film reflects on the collective impact of human behaviour on nature.
Director: Daniel McCabe
Cinematographer: Daniel McCabe, Michele Sibiloni, Michael McCabe
Editing: Alyse Ardell Spiegel
Sound: Ricardo Arteaga
Production: Daniel McCabe
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Visions du Reel 2023
Guanajuato International Film Festival 2023
Festival International du Film de Nancy 2023
Camden International Film Festival 2023, Woodstock Film Festival 2023
Inconvenient Films Festival 2023 – Emerging Filmmakers Competition Winner
DOC NYC 2023
Cairo International Film Festival 2023
WATCH DOCS 2023
Camerimage Film Festival 2023
This Human World 2023
BIOGRAPHY
Daniel McCabe (Director, Producer, Cinematographer) is an American filmmaker and photographer currently based in New York. As a photo/video journalist McCabe has covered gang conflict in Honduras, Kenya’s 2008 Post-Election Violence, the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti and the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2008-2015). He has traveled extensively in Africa and his work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, Time Magazine, BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN among others. Daniel’s first feature-length documentary film This Is Congo, tells the story of four lives lived amongst war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, premiered in 2017 at the prestigious 74th Venice International Film Festival and has won numerous awards worldwide.
