June Givanni, pioneering international film curator to receive BAFTA’s Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award

June Givanni, pioneering international film curator
to receive BAFTA’s Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award

17 January 2024 

https://www.bafta.org/media-centre/press-releases/june-givanni-bafta-outstanding-british-contribution-to-cinema-award

Photo: BAFTA/Charlie Clift

June Givanni, the pioneering film curator, writer and programmer of African and African diaspora cinema, and founder of The June Givanni PanAfrican Archive, will be presented with BAFTA’s Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award at the EE BAFTA Film Awards next month

This Special Award, one of BAFTA’s highest accolades, is presented to an individual or organisation that has made a significant and inspiring contribution to film through a particular project or work - with focus on recognising work that might not otherwise be eligible in BAFTA’s competitive awards’ categories. It will be presented to June Givanni during the EE BAFTAs’ ceremony at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, as part of a commemoration of her work to-date including that of The June Givanni PanAfrican Archive (JGPACA).

 

Based in London, the JGPACA is a volunteer-run archive founded and amassed by June Givanni over forty years as part of her wider curatorial work and is dedicated to preserving the history of pan-African and Black British cinema and culture. It comprises over 10,000 rare and unique artefacts documenting the development of filmmaking across Africa and the African diaspora, including in Britain that might otherwise not have been preserved – and has grown to become one of the largest independent archives in the UK.