‘Emmett Till’ Director Chinonye Chukwu responds to Oscars Snub of Black Women

‘Emmett Till’ Director Chinonye Chukwu

responds to Oscars Snub of Black Women

“We live in a world and work in industries that are so aggressively committed to upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards Black women,”

And yet, 

I am forever in gratitude for the greatest lesson of my life: Regardless of any challenges or obstacles, I will always have the power to cultivate my own joy, and it is this joy that will continue to be one of my greatest forms of resistance.”

Source: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CnzwEI3Jls-/ 

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Chinonye Chukwu

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Claire Diao

Khadidia Djigo

Maimouna Doucouré

Rahmatou Keïta

Marème N'Diaye

Pascale Obolo

Akosua Adoma Owusu

Chinonye Chukwu

Chinonye Chukwu to helm first two episodes of Lupita Nyong'o HBO Max Series "Americanah"

Source: Deadline.com by Patrick Hipes. 15 January 2020.

https://deadline.com/2020/01/chinonye-chukwu-americanah-director-lupita-nyongo-hbo-max-series-1202831886/

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga: 'Reading Toni Morrison's Beloved Changed my life'

Source: Guardian.com 10 January 2020.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/10/tsitsi-dangarembga-books-that-made-me

Khadidia Djigo

Les Émissions CANAL+ Afrique

Claire Diao - TV s'est rendue au CanalOlympia Téranga de Dakar pour rencontrer sa directrice Khadidia Djigo

Source: Les Emissions CANAL+ Afrique Facebook Videos. 06 January 2020.

https://www.facebook.com/emissionscanalplusafrique/videos/461228978161992/

Maimouna Doucouré

Netflix Buys World Rights to Maimouna Doucouré’s Sundance-Player ‘Cuties’ - (Mignonnes)

Source: Variety.com by Martin Dale. 14 January 2020.

https://variety.com/2020/film/global/netflix-buys-world-rights-to-maimouna-doucoures-sundance-player-cuties-1203467013/

Rahmatou Keïta

Tête à tête avec Rahmatou Keïta

Source: Cameroon-tribune.com by Maimounatou. 07 janvier 2020.

https://www.cameroon-tribune.cm/article.html/30184/fr.html/CT-article

Marème N'Diaye

Les Émissions CANAL+ Afrique

Claire Diao - TV a rencontré l'actrice sénégalaise Marème N'Diaye actuellement en tournage sur l'île de Gorée, à Dakar

Source: Les Emissions CANAL+ Afrique Facebook Videos. 15 January 2020.

https://www.facebook.com/emissionscanalplusafrique/videos/505709106965048/

Pascale Obolo

Rencontre avec Pascale Obolo, cinéaste et fondatrice de la revue d’art Afrikadaa
« On ne peut plus continuer à parler de nous, sans nous ! »

Source: 9lives-magazine.com. 14 janvier 2020

https://www.9lives-magazine.com/48413/2019/01/14/rencontre-avec-pascale-obolo-cineaste-et-fondatrice-de-la-revue-dart-afrikadaa-on-ne-peut-plus-continuer-a-parler-de-nous-sans-nous/

VIDEO

Akosua Adoma Owusu

White Afro Trailer by Akosua Adoma Owusu

https://vimeo.com/348566057

Synopsis
A barber school haircut training video on how to give a white person an "Afro" hair-do.

The final film in Owusu’s hair trilogy, White Afro (2019), employs an archival instructional video produced by the educational department of the Barbers, Beauticians, and Allied Industries Association on how to offer curly perms or body waving services to their white clientele, ostensibly for financial gain. The training video is intermingled with Owusu’s mother’s experience working as a hairstylist at a predominantly white hair salon called Fantastic Sam's in Alexandria, Virginia. Offering a rare perspective on the Afro hairstyle—as an unmistakable marker of Black collective power that becomes a desirable, and appropriated, aesthetic during liberation movements—the film also expands on the abilities of non-Black beauticians and barbers to wield their shops as spaces for political change. -- CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

White Afro Trailer by Akosua Adoma Owusu from Obibini Pictures LLC on Vimeo.

Chinonye Chukwu’s Alaskaland

ALASKALAND TELLS THE STORY

...of Chukwuma, an Alaskan-raised Nigerian struggling to balance the expectations of his traditional Nigerian parents and the larger world around him. After a tragic car crash, Chukwuma is separated from his younger sister, Chidinma, who moves to Nigeria with their uncle until she becomes of legal age.

Two years later the siblings reconnect to find their estrangement has created new personal and cultural frictions in ways that bring them closer to each other and their roots, as well as help them define what it means to be a Nigerian in Alaska.

Born in Rivers State, Nigeria, filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu was raised in Fairbanks, Alaska to parents who settled in Alaska as engineers. She grew up navigating between her Nigerian traditions and her American Arctic environment. While not autobiographical, Alaskaland reflects the environment and conditions that inform the development of her layered identities.

Alaskaland de Chinonye Chukwu

ALASKALAND RACONTE L'HISTOIRE

... de Chukwuma, un Nigérian qui a grandi en Alaska et s’efforce de trouver l’équilibre entre les attentes du monde qui l’entoure et les aspirations que ses parents nigérians très attachés aux traditions nourrissent pour leurs enfants. Après un accident tragique de la route, Chukwuma se sépare de Chidinma, sa sœur cadette, qui va vivre avec leur oncle au Nigeria jusqu'à ce qu'elle atteigne l'âge de la majorité.

Deux ans plus tard le frère et la soeur se retrouvent. Ils se rendent compte que leur séparation a créé de nouveaux conflits personnels et culturels mais de manière qui les amènent à se rapprocher l’un de l’autre et de leur origine. Ainsi que de les aider à définir ce que signifie être Nigérian en Alaska.

Née à Rivers State, Nigeria, la cinéaste Chinonye Chukwu a grandi à Fairbanks, en Alaska avec ses parents qui étaient tous deux ingénieurs. Depuis son enfance, elle a navigué entre ses traditions nigérianes et son éducation américaine arctique. Alaskaland n’est pas pourtant autobiographique, le film reflète le milieu et les circonstances qui font la fondation de son identité plurielle.