June Givanni receiving the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award

June Givanni receiving the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award

Bravo, congratulations June !

June Givanni, programmer, curator and festival organizer, has been at the forefront of foundational projects in the promotion of Black British screen culture, and the cinemas of Africa and the Diaspora, which includes her legacy project, the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive. She received the BAFTA Film Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in 2024.

June Givanni upon receiving the award:

“I’m truly humbled and blessed being one of the few women of colour to receive this prestigious award. As the curator, the founding of the June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive signified a poignant culmination of a long journey and a nod to the many brilliant, yet often unsung curators around the world who championed our diasporic stories. Of course, we could not do what we do without the great visionary work that filmmakers gift to us. For treasured filmmaking pioneers and early supporters of the archive, who I'm deeply honoured to call friends and colleagues.”