The ‘Diversity Test’: Is the London LGBT Film Festival a white-only affair?
The ‘Diversity Test’: Is the London LGBT Film Festival a white-only affair? by Christina Fonthes Now in its 28th year, the highly-anticipated London Lesbian Gay Film Festival returned to the Southbank this year boasting a new name: BFI Flare: London…
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A Veil of Silence [Video]
The Veil of Silence produced by the TIER and directed by Habeeb Lawal documents the experience of sexual minorities in Nigeria and discusses issues of sexual citizenship, violence and stigma. On the brink of an impending law that could re-write…
Isiphiwo Sami – An exploration of Black Queers in SA [Video]
Isiphiwo Sami a short film by Zanele Muholi – an exploration of Black Queers in SA (Beauties)… Queerizing Public Spaces. Produced in Durban in 2013, an exchange between black trans/ femme gay identifying persons from Durban and Johannesburg.
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The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo [Film]
Indiegogo Fund Raiser for “The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo“ We are waiting for this film, we want this film, lets help get this film made – Donate Here The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo explores the artistic contributions of…
Tey, a film by Alain Gomis: From Senegal to Haiti, timelessness and spirituality remain the same
Tey, [Today] a film directed by Alain Gomis which opens in NYC on Oct 6 at Mist Harlem, won the Golden Stallion Prize for the best film at the 2013 FESPACO in Burkina Faso. The film has now been formally…
John Akomfrah on his film “The Stuart Hall Project”
For many of my generation in the seventies, Stuart Hall was just such a figure. In those heady, mono – cultural days, he was one of the few people of colour we saw on television who wasn’t crooning, dancing or running. I loved all the athletes and singers and dancers too but when you are a black teenage bookworm in seventies West London, let’s just say a public intellectual of colour disseminating ideas on television offered other more immediate compensations.
Venus Noire – A film about Saartjie Baartman
Via Shadow and Act – The story of Saartjie Baartman [Parts 1 & 2]The film is in French with subtitles but unfortunately I havent had much success in watching it. I would love to hear from anyone who has seen…
Haiti: ‘Des Hommes et Dieux’ [Of Men and Gods] Film
‘Des Hommes et Dieux’ [Of Men and Gods”] A documentary on the struggles of Haitian trans women by Anne Lescot and Laurence Magloire
FESPACO 2013
Ouagadougou isn’t the first place that comes to mind when one considers the glitzy world of movies, yet Burkina Faso’s capital has hosted the pan-African film festival Fespaco for more than 40 years and showcases some of the best talent on the continent. Every two years, the streets of Ouaga, as the city is known, liven up to the beat of djembe drums as thousands of film fans fill the city’s maquis (open air barbecues) and exchange silver-screen banter with the Ouagadoulais.
Part 2 of 2: Hollywood star SEBATI MAFATE
Hello friends! Donald Molosi here. I linked up with Hollywood actor-writer SEBATI MAFATE again to do the second half of our conversation about his latest sensational book, “MEMORIES OF LOTSANE.” I have read the book myself and recommend it to…
An African Election – pulling back from the brink [Video]
From Dynamic Africa The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa, serve as a backdrop for this feature documentary that looks behind-the-scenes at the complex, political machinery of a third world democracy struggling to legitimize itself to its first world…
Last Flight to Abuja
Nigerian blockbuster takes film-goers on a white-knuckle flight. Last Flight to Abuja, the Nollywood hit about a near miss, delivers a fairytale ending in country with a dire air safety record by Monica Mark It is perhaps an unlikely…
Native Son [Short Film]
After his mother dies, a young boy travels from his village in northern Ghana in search his father in Accra. An impossible task. The boy initially oblivious to the dangers of the big city soon learns the hard way when…
Black Gold: “We are rebels of the struggle”
“Black Gold: The Struggle of the Niger Delta” is a feature film written and directed by Nigerian filmmaker, Jeta Amata. Based on the film synopsis, Black Gold sounds fairly straightforward. A community protests against multinational oil companies and the Nigerian…
From colonial dependence to petro dependence: A video window into the colonial past
Three Roads to Tomorrow – a BP promotional film uses three students from the three different regions of Nigeria to depict the transition from the past to the modernity – from colonial dependence to petro dependence. And the trains ran…
In the ruins of the majestic Cathédrale Notre-Dame de L’Assomption
Destroyed on 12thJanuary, 2010, the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de L’Assomption remains majestic, it’s pink and cream walls towering over the city of Port-au-Prince. The Cathédrale is now open to the sky – a direct view to the mythical heavens. It remains…
A history to remember: “Who says being queer is unAfrican?”
In “The frightful development of this vice amongst the Natives”: Who says being queer is unAfrican?” Zackie Achmat traces the role of missionaries and the colonial state in the control and disciple of the African male body. He begins…
Interview with the cast of Pray the Devil Back to Hell
“Pray the Devil Back to Hell” Robtel Pailey interviews the cast and members of the production team. The film is available in full on PBS along with four other films in the series “Women War and Peace“. Listen here
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Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years [Film]
Cannot wait for this……………. Scheduled to make its world premiere in the Panorama Documentary section is Dagmar Shultz’s Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 is an untold chapter (the Berlin years) of the late writer, poet and activist, Caribbean child of…
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