Title: Awele’s Diary
Genre: Short film
Director: Ronke Ogunmakin
Year: 2013
Awele’s Diary is a documentary of a young lady living with Sickle Cell Anaemia. The documentary shares a different perception of sickle cell survivors/warriors. One of life and liveliness and not the usual gloom and doom always associated with it. Awele’s Diary is detailed and very informative while it depicts ‘living-with’ and not ‘dying-of’ sickle cell. However, the opening cut of the documentary is very childishness. Texts splattered across the screen childishly. A little bit of coordination there would have conveyed the seriousness of the situation being discussed in the cut. All the same, Awele is full of life.
Reviewed by Innocent Ekejiuba
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@Innocent, adding some color to illustrate that Awele has an inner child like we all do and likes to play is not a bad thing. That in itself tells us about a different part of Awele, a part of her that is willing to play with you, even when she is in pain, if she feels it will make you happy, no matter how serious/gloom the situation might be.
We should be careful as critics before shooting down certain aspects of a production, its not everytime we should follow the norm. and if some one does break the mould, rather than trying to smooth it over with mud, we should ask why.