Curating African Cinema - Film Africa 2020 Masterclass with Aseye Tamakloe, Katarina Hedrén, Nyambura M. Waruingi

Curating African Cinema - Film Africa 2020 Masterclass with Aseye Tamakloe, Katarina Hedrén, Nyambura M. Waruingi

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Masterclass: Curating African Cinema
Sun 8 Nov | 11:00 | Zoom  | Donation £0-10

A masterclass on programming African cinema, delivered by the Co-Curators of Film Africa 2020.

This year’s selection of films at Film Africa mirrors the combined minds and sensibilities of three curators, based in three corners of Africa - Aseye Tamakloe in Accra, Ghana; Nyambura M. Waruingi in Nairobi, Kenya; and Katarina Hedrén in Johannesburg, South Africa. The films – feature-length and shorts, fiction and documentary – reflect a multitude of experiences, subject matters and styles, with stories unfolding on the African continent as well as in its Diaspora.

Join this masterclass about film curation approaches and sharing of experiences by our Film Africa 2020 Co-Curators - Aseye Tamakloe, who is also a filmmaker and lecturer in film, and Katarina Hedrén, who combines curation with film criticism. The exchange between them and the audience Q&A will be facilitated by the third Co-Curator, Nyambura M. Waruingi.

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Call for films: Ndiva Women's Film Festival 2017 (Ghana)

Ndiva Women's Film Festival 2017

(Ghana)

Call for films

Fiction - Documentary - Animation

Films by Women

Films for Women by Women

Films for Women by Men

Deadline: 25 August 2017

Ndiva Women’s Film Festival: http://ndivawff.org/home.php

Contact: info.ndivawff@gmail.com

NWFF01 - 31 October to 02 November 2017 Submissions to the 1st annual festival are open as of 12 July 2017. Entries will be viewed by a programming committee and entrants will be notified of the decision regarding their film/video in September 2017. 

(Source: Ndiva Women’s Film Festival Website)

The NDIVA WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL (NWFF) is a film festival created to bring African women filmmakers and women filmmakers of African descent in the Diaspora (Directors, Producers, Editors, Animators, Actresses, Cinematographers, Production Designers and all women in the film production chain) together in a space where they can network, collaborate, exhibit their work and celebrate each other. The festival aims to create artistic platforms for the presentation of work by, for and about African women, women of the African Diaspora or of African Heritage. The NDIVA WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL encourages and supports African women filmmakers, and women filmmakers of African descent from all backgrounds to embrace leading roles in front and behind the camera.

Gender Advocacy

The NDIVA WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL (NWFF) is aware of the gender parity issues in the film industry especially in Africa and her diaspora. African women filmmakers and women filmmakers of African descent are still highly unrepresented in the film industry and have challenges in accessing funds and other job opportunities in the film business. Because there are not many women writing and directing there are still issues with stereotypical representations of women in film narratives. The festival will have gender advocacy as part of its core business and will create the platforms to address the gender gap in the film industry for these women filmmakers who are already in the minority.

Festival Staff and Board:

Festival Director: Aseye Tamakloe

Festival Producer: Anita Afonu (See interview, African Women in Cinema Blog)

Office Manager: Gloria Eva Adotevi