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- Beti Ellerson
- Director/Directrice, Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema | Centre pour l'étude et la recherche des femmes africaines dans le cinéma
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31 May 2017
Yolande Ekoumou Samba : Faire un Film de fiction : à l’intention des Profanes, Amateurs ou Débutants (To make a fiction film : for laypersons, enthusiasts or beginners) – Cameroun | Cameroon
L'entretien avec Hadja Maï Niang du 27 mars 2017 Theme : Sembene Ousmane, la didactique de l'écriture, l'image.
Présenté par Sada Kane. www.2stv.net
Writer, director, playwright and academic. Born in Fatick (Senegal), Hadja Maimouna Ndiaye Niang has a doctorate in General and Comparative Literature. She defended her thesis in 2009 at the University Paris 12 Val-de-Marne, on the topic "Literature and cinema in the creative works of Ousmane Sembène: the source of the adaptations." She also holds a Master II in professional film and audiovisual with an option in image studies, at the University Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. She currently teaches communication techniques at the University of Thies (Senegal).
Also see: Dr Hadja Maï Niang and/et Daaray Sembène - la Maison de la pédagogie de l’image | the centre for image studies
29 May 2017
Festival Des 3 Continents Cinemas : Call for films | Appel à films
It is dedicated to young professionals from the 3 Continents ‘Africa, Latin America, Asia). Producers and directors are invited to submit their fiction film project under development.
Only fiction feature films are accepted.
The deadline to submit your film project is July 17th 2017.
The announcement of the selected projects will be published by early September.
Cet atelier international s’adresse à tous les producteurs et réalisateurs des 3 Continents (Afrique, Amérique latine et Asie) porteurs d’un projet de long-métrage de fiction.
Seuls les projets de long-métrage de fiction sont acceptés.
Les candidatures peuvent êtres adressées en ligne jusqu’au 17 juillet 2017.
L’annonce des projets sélectionnés sera faite en ligne début septembre 2017.
26 May 2017
African Women in Cinema Blog : Updates | Actualités 26-05-2017 - News around the Internet | Les infos autour de l’Internet
Awa Traoré
25 May 2017
Unbound: Visions of the Black Feminine - 3 June 2017 (British Film Institute)
22 May 2017
Wild Track Newsletter #24 May 2017 about African women in cinema in Zimbabwe
The Wild Track Newsletter is published by the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA TRUST)
21 May 2017
Nneka Onuorah launches a crowdsourcing campaign for “Rotten Fruit” film project
Image: Rotten Fruit Indiegogo Page |
20 May 2017
Quartiers Lointains - (From distant neighborhoods) a traveling cinema program
Quartiers Lointains - (From distant neighborhoods) a traveling cinema program
Quartiers Lointains, the name conjures local quarters in far-flung districts, and more visually: experiencing the life of vibrant neighborhoods from afar—which reflects the films selected in the ongoing programming seasons.
The traveling cinema program, an initiative of Franco-Burkinabe journalist, film critic and activist Claire Diao, launched in 2013, navigates three continents: Europe, North America, Africa—with screenings of the growing cohort of afro-descendant French filmmakers—who in reality are part of what Claire Diao describes, "the Double Wave" of the contemporary French cinema landscape, giving "new energy to its film culture.
During each Quartiers Lointains Season, a theme is chosen to present the multifarious nature of the dynamic, multi-dimensional experiences of these "neighborhoods from afar."
The ongoing and continuing list of the Quartiers Lointains Seasons: Updated 13 November 2023
7th Season: Metamorphosis with patron/marraine Alice Diop
6th Season: Afrofuturistik with patron/marraine Selly Raby Kane
5th Season: Self-Image with patron/parrain Lucien Jean-Baptiste
4th Season: Justice with patron/marraine Jihan El Tahri
3rd Season: Love, à la French with patron/parrain Melvin Van Peebles
2nd Season: Family with patron/parrain Alain Gomis
1st Season: Identities
African Diasporas. Claire Diao : Double Vague, le nouveau soufflé du cinéma français (Double wave, the new energy of French cinema) 2017
Claire Diao ©FIFF/Yoann Corthésy |
Claire Diao est une journaliste et critique de cinéma franco-burkinabè, à l’initiative du programme Quartiers Lointains, la revue Awotélé et la société Sudu Connexion.
19 May 2017
African Women in Cinema Blog: Updates | Actualités 19-05-2017 - News around the Internet | Les infos autour de l’Internet
18 May 2017
A conversation with Twiggy Matiwana | Une conversation avec Twiggy Matiwana - South Africa | Afrique du Sud
©Twiggy Matiwana |
What were your experiences with the moving image when growing up in South Africa?
Still from The Bicycle Man |
The Bicycle Man shows a sensitive side of the manner in which a man deals with what is generally viewed as a woman’s illness: breast cancer. Talk about why you chose this theme and decided to tell the story in this way.
What have been the responses from the viewers? Men and women?
Still from Bicycle Man |
Attending Fespaco 2017 was a first experience for you. I was able to follow a bit of your journey there via social media. It appears that you made some productive connections and useful contacts.
Ouaga was amazing, even though Fespaco was a bit frustrating at times because of the language barrier; winning best short film has brought me greater opportunities. I’ve made connections all around the world. The film is now screening in Angers in France; I will be attending Cannes Film Festival for the first time in my life. The Bicycle Man has made it to the Cannes Short Film Corner and it’s in the Cannes Catalogue, wow. I’m truly grateful to everyone who made this film possible.
Call for Submissions : CaribbeanTales and Durban FilmMart Join Forces to Support African Women Filmmakers - 2017
15 May 2017
Black Camera, Spring 2017 - Beti Ellerson - Traveling Gazes: Glocal Imaginaries in the Transcontinental, Transnational, Exilic, Migration, and Diasporic Cinematic Experiences of African Women
Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 2017), pp. 272-289
ERRATUM:
On page 274, it was incorrectly stated that Taghreed Elsanhouri was born in the UK. She was born in Sudan and migrated with her family to the UK as a young child.
There are several errors in the captions of the film stills:
Figure 2 should read: Still from Polyglot (dir. Amelia Umuhire, 2015).
Figure 3 should read: Still from Maman(s) (dir. Maimouna Doucouré, 2015).
Figure 5 should read: Still from African Booty Scratcher (dir. Nikyatu Jusu, 2007).
13 May 2017
REMINDER: African Student Film Festival 2017 Call for Entry
12 May 2017
African Women in Cinema Blog: Updates | Actualités 12-05-2017 - News around the Internet | Les infos autour de l’Internet
11 May 2017
Call For Papers - Mothers Of Invention: Parenting and/as Filmmaking Practice
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