FOUNTAINS OF THE SUN

This feature documentary embraces half the length of Africa and reveals the sources and beauty of the White and Blue Niles. It is the winner of four festival prizes and was directed by New Zealander John Feeney. It follows the Nile from the “Mountains of the Moon” in Ethiopia to Egypt, celebrating the moods of this gigantic highway and the music of its people. The film makers reach the source of the Blue Nile, Lake Tana and Tisisat Falls and follow its progress for 3,200 kilometres capturing the last annual flooding of the Nile in 1964 (the largest of the 20th century). This is the only filmed record ever made of this momentous event.

The Aswan High Dam began to fill after the 1964 flood and construction on it continued until its official inauguration in 1970.

In 2001 “Fountains of the Sun” was nominated for inclusion in the “Memory of the World” register of UNESCO which regarded it as “one of the most important films of the River Nile”.