Black Camera: Reading, Writing, Researching African Women in Cinema—Reflections on Sisters of the Screen-25 years and the African Women in Cinema Dossier 10 years onward by Beti Ellerson

Black Camera an International Film Journal

Volume 16, Number 2 Spring 2025

Reading, Writing, Researching African Women in Cinema

Reflections on Sisters of the Screen-25 years

and

the African Women in Cinema Dossier 10 years onward

by Beti Ellerson

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55047

pp. 181-222
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/blc.00066 

 

This project has as purpose to trace the journey of Sisters of the Screen twenty-five years onward and the trajectory of the African Women in Cinema Dossier from its inception ten years ago to the present. Sisters of the Screen, the title of the book, and the film—released two years later—was conceived as a critical inquiry into all manner of African women of the moving image. Shortly afterward, the Center for the Study and Research of African Women was established as a virtual environment in which to channel and disseminate the knowledge production of this ever-growing field. With the emergence of social media, the African Women in Cinema Blog has served as a public forum in which to disseminate these ideas. Similarly, the Dossier has been the conduit for the publication of research, as well as a space to develop and share theories and concepts.