Celebrating African women filmmakers
Two events in London this year focused on female filmmakers working in African cinema. This is high exposure for a demographic of the African film industry that is generally low on the radar.
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Basia Cummings
Basia Cummings is a writer and film critic based in London.
Adapting African literature for the screen
In a recent video interview (first spotted on film blog Shadow and Act), Kenyan film director
The documentary imaginery
At the recent Film Africa film festival in London, the new Ethiopian feature film "Atletu" (The
Fighting somebody else's war
By Basia Lewandowska Cummings We British are very good at honoring the dead. Last Friday Prime
Africa gets new football kits
Puma created new kits for African teams ahead of the 2012 African Cup of Nations. At first sight, it looks exciting. Up close, the designers stuck to conservative.
The films of Sarah Maldoror
Maldoror on filmmaking: “To make a film means to take a position … I make films so that people—no matter what race or color they are—can understand them.”