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11 October 2022

National Female Filmmakers' Congress, Abuja, Nigeria - WIFFEN Women's International Film Festival Nigeria

Women's International Film Festival Nigeria
National Female Filmmakers' Congress
Abuja, Nigeria

Film screenings, Panel and Break out sessions, Networking
11 October 2022
https://wiffen.global/ 

The Women’s International Film Festival Nigeria (WIFFEN) is a premier film festival in Nigeria. Created in 2021, the goal of the festival is to celebrate women in film around the world.

The National Female Filmmakers Congress will host the screening of films by women, along with eclectic panel and break-out discussion sessions on thematic issues affecting women in film. The Congress holds on the 11th of October 2022 to mark the International Day of the Girl and the International Mental Health Day which is globally observed on the 10th of October 2022. Together, women in film in Nigeria will convene to watch social impact films produced by women while learning and sharing together about the opportunities in the industry and how women can position themselves to thrive in the industry.


Are you a Film Director, Producer, Editor, Actor or do you work in the area of sound, light, production design, costume design, hair, and makeup? Name it! Let’s connect and explore opportunities to share our experiences, learn from one another and support each other.

Register to attend the National Female Filmmakers Congress on the 11th of October 2022 at 10:00am prompt at the Auditorium, Yar’ Adua Centre, 1 Memorial Drive, Central Area (Close to the Central Mosque and the Sheraton Hotel) Abuja.



07 October 2022

ALICE DIOP: the literature of Annie Ernaux as a transformative feature of her experience as a woman | la littérature d’Annie Ernaux comme un effet transformatif sur son expérience en tant que femme

ALICE DIOP: the literature of Annie Ernaux as a transformative feature of her experience as a woman | la littérature d’Annie Ernaux comme un effet transformatif sur son expérience en tant que femme.

Grand prix du jury et le prix du premier film de fiction «Saint-Omer» à la Mostra de Venise, la cinéaste Alice Diop évoque le rapport fondamental qu’elle entretient depuis des années avec l’œuvre de l’autrice nobélisée ce jeudi.

Laureate of the Grand Jury Prize and the prize for the first fiction film "Saint-Omer" at the Venice Film Festival, cineaste Alice Diop talks about the pivotal bond she has had for years with the work of the newly minted Nobel Prize laureate Annie Ernaux.

 Source: liberation.fr

«C’est bien la première fois que je suis émue aux larmes pour l’annonce d’un prix Nobel ! J’ai lu la Place quand j’avais 20 ans, j’étais à la Sorbonne en histoire, je me sentais profondément seule, déphasée et d’un coup, ce livre m’a offert un miroir réflexif comme si l’auteure concentrait dans ses pages en m’ayant devancée dans son parcours, sa réflexion, un ensemble d’expérience très spécifique propre à ce qu’on a fini par nommer les transfuges de classe.

 «Partir d’une situation de fragilité, surmonter la honte, raconter la violence subie, élever au rang de littérature des choses qui n’étaient pas destinées à entrer dans son champ comme ces pages géniales sur l’odeur d’eau de javel à la maison, tant sa mère est obsédée par le ménage, odeur que j’ai sentie, presque portée sur moi toute mon enfance, c’était bouleversant.

Mon expérience de femme a été traversée par sa littérature, c’est puissant, politique, chirurgical. Elle a éclairé, nommé, ce que j’avais vécu, elle l’a réparé et a transformé ma fragilité en puissance, elle m’a permis de devenir la femme que je suis.

Translation from French by Beti Ellerson

 “This indeed is the first time that I was moved to tears by the announcement of a Nobel Prize! I read La Place when I was 20 years old, I was at the Sorbonne studying history, I felt deeply alone, out of step and suddenly, this book offered me a reflective mirror of what had preceded me, as if in its pages the author was bringing to bear in her journey, her thinking, a very distinct body of experiences specific to what we have come to call class defectors.

"Starting from a situation of fragility, overcoming shame, recounting the violence suffered, elevating to the rank of literature things that were not intended to enter into its field, like these brilliant pages about the smell of bleach in the house, from her mother’s obsessive cleaning—an odor that I smelled. It almost carried me back to my entire childhood, it was overwhelming.

My experience as a woman was marked by her literature, it is powerful, political, surgical. It clarified, named, what I had experienced, it rebuilt and transformed my fragility into power, it allowed me to become the woman that I am."

05 October 2022

On new voices in Nollywood: female agency and value in selected Nigerian movies - Chinenye Amonyeze & Ogochukwu Agbo



On new voices in Nollywood:
female agency and value in selected Nigerian movies
Chinenye Amonyeze & Ogochukwu Agbo

Abstract
In recent times female Nigerian filmmakers have integrated an array of counter interventionist measures in their movies in a bid to undercut patriarchy’s narrative primacy. This study investigates feminist responses to toxic masculinity in critical and commercially acclaimed Nigerian films, revealing how three female Nigerian directors leveraged their authentic experiences to demonstrate women’s social capacity without threatening patriarchy directly. The study analyzes how young female moviemakers deploy art as a narrative of struggle against a limiting sexist frame. Based on findings culled from visual research and dramaturgical analysis, the paper explores how three Nigerian movies, Omoni Oboli’s Wives on Strike, Stephanie Okereke Linus’s Dry, and Remi Vaughan-Richard’s Unspoken, pioneer social change through the stories of young people battling to survive in a sexist space. The study focuses on blockbuster Nollywood movies challenging misogynistic narratives, and contextualizes the process through which Nigerian movies construct the identity of the “Other” within dominant discourse.

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 9:1, 2064080,
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23311983.2022.2064080
Published online: 12 April 2022

03 October 2022

Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image - Edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg - MIT Press

Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image
Edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg
512 pp.
ISBN: 9780262544528
Published: September 27, 2022
Publisher: The MIT Press

Intersectional, intergenerational, and international perspectives on nonfiction filmmaking by women, generously illustrated, with film stills and other images.

This book offers intersectional, intergenerational, and international perspectives on nonfiction film- and videomaking by and about women, examining practices that range from activist documentaries to avant-garde experiments. Concentrating primarily on the period between the 1970s and 1990s, the contributions revisit major figures, contexts, and debates across a polycentric, global geography. They explore how the moving image has been a crucial terrain of feminist struggle—a way of not only picturing the world but remaking it.
The contributors consider key decolonial filmmakers, including Trinh T. Minh-ha and Sarah Maldoror; explore collectively produced films with ties to women's liberation movements in different countries; and investigate the cinematic expressions of tensions and alliances between feminism and anti-imperialist struggles. They grapple with the need for a broader more inclusive definition of the term “feminism”; meditate on the figure of the grandmother; reflect on realist aesthetics; and ask what a feminist film historiography might look like.
The book, generously illustrated with film stills and other images, many in color, offers ten original texts, two conversations, and eight short essays composed in response to historical texts written by filmmakers. The historical texts, half of which are published in English for the first time, appear alongside the essays.

Co-published with the Haus der Kulteren der Welt (HKW), Berlin

Contributors
Helena Amiradżibi, Madeleine Bernstorff, Teresa Castro, Counter Encounters (Laura Huertas Millán, Onyeka Igwe, Rachael Rakes), Ayanna Dozier, Forough Farrokhzad, Safi Faye, Devika Girish, Elena Gorfinkel, Haneda Sumiko, Shai Heredia, Juliet Jacques, Sarah Keller, Nzingha Kendall, Julia Lesage, Beatrice Loayza, Janaína Oliveira, Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Yasmina Price, Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto, Pooja Rangan, Lis Rhodes, Sara Saljoughi, Rasha Salti, Isabel Seguí, Chick Strand, Monika Talarczyk, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Françoise Vergès, Claudia von Alemann, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Shilyh Warren, Giovanna Zapperi

01 October 2022

#afridocsanytime: Women Hold Up The Sky - A film by Yaba Badoe, Nelson Makengo, Sharon Farr - South Africa, DRC, Uganda


#afridocsanytime
Women Hold Up The Sky
Afridocs



On YouTube: 27 September 2022 

A film by Yaba Badoe, Nelson Makengo, Sharon Farr

South Africa, DRC, Uganda | 2019


https://www.afridocs.net/watch-now/women-hold-up-the-sky/


Through the eyes and experiences of women impacted by coal, oil and mega-infrastructure projects in South Africa, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Women Hold Up the Sky explores stories of resistance and communities in active struggle to take back control of their land, their rights, their bodies and their lives. Follow their journeys as they fight for voice, build inspiring solidarity and take action in the face of violent repression.





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