CCP Celebrates Sierra Leone’s 50th Anniversary of Independence
Today marks the 50th anniversary of independence in Sierra Leone. It is a day of great pride for people in Sierra Leone and in the worldwide Sierra Leonean Diaspora, many …
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SLCCP Postcard Competition
CCP has been dedicating its energies this month to the nationwide celebration of Sierra Leone’s 50th anniversary of independence! In addition to its bi-weekly workshop meetings, the CCP team has …
National Traveling Series
In order to make African cinema available to wider audiences, particularly in places where there are limited opportunities to view African films, AFF programs the annual National Traveling Series, which …
CCP Launches in Freetown!
It is with great excitement and pride, that we at AFF announce the official launch of the Sierra Leone Cultural Conservation Program! AFF’s New York-based administrative team spent the last …
2011 Statement
For its 18th edition, the New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) honors the landmark “International Year for People of African Descent,” as 2011 has been designated by the United Nations. …
2011 Festival
Year-Round Community Engagement
AFF brings African films directly to New York neighborhoods with limited cultural resources, taking African cinema out of the art house and into the community. These screenings reach many who …
From the Archives: LIGHTS ON AFRICA
In 1996, AFF curated “LIGHTS ON AFRICA: A Program of African Film,” for the Solomon R. Guggenheim exhibition Africa: Art of a Continent. Films from throughout the continent were shown, …
15th National Traveling Series
NYAFF Youth Matinee Program
Since 1994, AFF’s Youth Matinee Program has brought together New York City middle and high school students to a special matinee program during the annual New York African Film Festival. …
Summer Series
During this annual series which began in 1999, screenings of classic and contemporary African cinema are held throughout Brooklyn, the Bronx, Harlem, Staten Island and Queens, in public venues, city …
2010 Festival
2010 Statement
The 2010 New York African Film Festival, presented under the banner “Independent Africa,” spotlights 17 African Nations, as they observe 50 years of independence from colonial rule. These nations include: …
Ouaga Hip Hop Festival
Ouagadougou is much more than the capital of Burkina Faso, it is one of the cultural capitals of the world. The city hosts several major festivals: the International Craft Show …
14th National Traveling Series
Review of “White Wedding”
The preview of White Wedding at Atlas studios in Johannesburg was packed, yet people squeezed into any and every available space. Within minutes of watching the film, I understood why …
2009 Statement
The 2009 New York African Film Festival, presented under the banner “Africa in Transition,” takes an introspective journey across the African continent with films that create a vision of Africa’s …
2009 Festival
“The African Slave Trades: Across the Indian Ocean”
The Arab world’s lost memory of African enslavement dominated the panel discussions that followed the screening of The African Slave Trades: Across the Indian Ocean. The film’s narrator, Nigerian writer …
Expanding Artistic Horizons
The tall sentry at Paris’s Branly Museum greeted me with its left arm stretched above its head, palm forward, breasts sagging. Its neatly bearded regal face was cut with minute …
13th National Traveling Series
Sembene Remembered
On Tuesday, May 27, 2008, AFF co-produced a very special evening at the French institute Alliance Français, titled “Homage To Ousmane Sembène.” The evening began with a screening of a …
2008 Festival
2008 Statement
The 15th New York African Film Festival takes cinema from all genres throughout Africa and the African Diaspora to weave a story of the present— reaching backward into time and …
Cinema
Soon after its invention in France in 1895, cinema came to Africa. Over the next century, its development was shaped by European colonialism and its postcolonial aftermath. By 2005, however, …
The Rwandan Holocaust On Film
“Let me try and describe Kigali on April 1994,” Nick Hughes, a documentary cameraman with Vivid Features told and attentive audience in Harvard. “A convoy of Belgium paratroopers was going …
Nha Fala (My Voice)
12th National Traveling Series
2007 Festival
2007 Statement
Celebrating 50 Years of Independence and Cinema Expanding upon the 2007 Festival themes, this discussion with African filmmakers, scholars and artists will look closely at selected films that reveal the …
11th National Traveling Series
AFF 2006 Outdoor Series
Hello, it’s me again, the African Film Addict, and I am still addicted. However, this year, I gave up the summer to work on improving myself professionally (whatever that means). …
2006 Statement
The African Film Festival, Inc., (AFF) celebrates the 13th edition of the New York African Rim Festival in 2006. For over a decade, AFF has used cinema as a tool …
2006 Festival
We are doing worse than Hollywood
Steve Ayorinde: Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you. The name of Kwaw Ansah is to a large extent one of the most significant of African cinema. As …
Filmmaking can show the way
Bartlet: Ten years have gone since Waati, your last big movie. What are your perspectives for filmmaking today in 2005? Cissé: Filmmaking with a big F is taking a break, …
10th National Traveling Series
Ousmane Sembène’s London Season
Offerring its highest honour on Ousmane Sembene last month, the British Film Institute (bfi) said the 82-year-old is “the Patron Saint of Black Cinema – to call him a director …
We the Living
South African theater, jazz, video and commercial film director Ian Gabriel’s first feature, Forgiveness, offers a sensitive probing of the realities of Apartheid and its human toll and legacy. One of twenty-four …
Interview with Jean-Marie Teno
Born in 1954, in Famleng, Cameroon, Jean-Marie Tenostudied communication at the University of Valenciennes. Since graduating in 1984 with a degree in filmmaking, he has been living and working in …