Nyong'o, Lupita
(Sources: – Through African Eyes – Conversations with the Directors – Volume 2, BONETTI Mahen and SEAG Morgan (Editors), 2010, African Film Festival, Inc. and Printinfo JV LLC, Yerevan, Armenia, …
(Sources: – Through African Eyes – Conversations with the Directors – Volume 2, BONETTI Mahen and SEAG Morgan (Editors), 2010, African Film Festival, Inc. and Printinfo JV LLC, Yerevan, Armenia, …
Films Shown in AFF, Inc. Programs:Β Hello, Nigeria! (2004, 2009); This Is My Africa (2008, 2009); Phyllis (2011); The Deliverance of Comfort (2011). Filmography: Bossa: The New Wave (2002) Hello, …
The sixth edition of Image dos Povos was held in the city of Belo in September of 2010, and Mahen Bonetti, of the New York African Film Festival, curated and …
In a sense John Akar instituted the National Dance Troupe of Sierra Leone as the principal vehicle of his confidence in the newly independent nation and love for country. He …
This summer I conducted an intensive photography workshop with members of the Sierra Leone Cultural Conservation Program in Freetown. I was greeted with a very warm welcome by a group …
Like other forms of creative expression by Africans, filmmaking constitutes a form of discourse and practice that is not just artistic and cultural, but also intellectual and political. It is …
A real bad boy, in the true sense of the word, is an outlaw. A boy who comes from the back streets. He is against society. Abou Bourguiba, ex-boss of …
The 1970s signalled the beginning of indigenous efforts in Nigerian filmmaking. Francis Oladele made Kongiβs Harvest written by Wole Soyinka in 1971 and soon after that, Ola Balogun made Alpha …
Hello Nigeria! is a film that aims to unravel and understand Nigerian society by examining the contents of their very own celebrity/society magazine Ovation. The film is actually the first …
The history of discourse on ethnographic film has been rife with contentions and opposing viewpoints. There have been contestations over its very definition to the issue of its proper role …
Since the late 1980s, a booming video feature film industry evolved in Ghana. While established filmmakers both within and outside the state-owned Ghana Film Industry Corporation (GFIC) found it extremely …
The meeting has been under way for well over two hours, and the seven participants do not seem exhausted after strings of passionate exchanges. The scene could have been ripped …
Jude G. Akudinobi: How would you define African cinema?Gaston KaborΓ©: When I speak about African cinema, I am addressing the historical context of the birth of a cinema in Africa, …
For African cinema, the final decade of this century has been a mixed bag of promises, hopes, achievements, and continued struggle and frustration with the same set of issues and …
The next decade will surely mark exciting developments. Sierra Leone, like many countries, is experiencing changes of climate. As a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change …
In celebration of Sierra Leone’s 50th Anniversary of independence, and in the spirit of preserving and promoting Sierra Leone’s cultural wealth, AFF launched the Sierra Leone Cultural Conservation Project (SLCCP) …