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A journey through the archive of BAFTA award-winning curator
and film programmer, June Givanni. It contains thousands of films from
across Africa, the Caribbean and the diaspora amassed in over forty years. Using four film
festivals as her touchstones, author Onyeka Igwe offers a way to encounter
Pan-African film.
The book starts with Third Eye, the film festival that
propelled June into a career in Pan-African cinema. Through connections she
made there, she travelled to FESPACO in 1985. Participating in the festival
while Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso was under the leadership of revolutionary
Thomas Sankara was a formative experience. In Ouagadougou she connected with
film programmers Suzy Landau and Claire Andrade Watkins, who would take steps to
organise Images Caraibes, Fort de France, Martinique, 1988, and Celebration of
Black Cinema, Boston, US.
Using original oral history research with June and other key
figures in Pan-African and Black British cinema, Onyeka uncovers the important role that women
festival organisers, programmers and cultural workers have played in
Pan-African cinema history. She conceptualises June Givanni's Pan-African Cinema Archive (JGPACA) as
a feminist counter archive that foregrounds marginalised histories and proposes
a radical approach to archiving itself. In tracing and naming the cinematic
legacies that ground political filmmaking practices today, she preserves June's
work, knowledge and fervour for Pan African cinema for future generations.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter
One: Third Eye: London Third World Cinema Festival
Chapter Two: The Pan-African Film and Television Festival
of Ouagadougou
Chapter Three: Images Caraibes
Chapter Four: Celebration of Black Cinema
Conclusion
