5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Jahmil Qubeka
The filmmaker considers himself to be a filmmaker who happens to be African: He is driven by the art of storytelling; so his context is African but his film language is global.
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Katarina Hedrén
Katarina Hedrén is a film curator and critic , based in Johannesburg.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker–Moussa Sene Absa
Moussa Sene Absa is a Senegalese filmmaker, artist and songwriter. What is your first film memory?
5 Questions for Filmmaker: Lodi Matsetela
As a filmmaker, Matsetela wants to be an alternative voice, in a topography that’s filled with stories by others, like Django Unchained, defining black people.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker–Taghreed Elsanhouri
Taghreed Elsanhouri directed the first Sudanese film to be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival,
5 Questions for a Filmmaker–Akin Omotoso
Award-winning South African/Nigerian filmmaker Akin Omotoso is the director of the feature films “Man on Ground”
Erykah Badu’s Royal Problem
Erykah Badu’s online defense of her visit to autocratic Swaziland exposed her lack of knowledge about the continent.
#WhiteHistoryMonth: Thank God, you were born white
On one of the last days of AIAC's first #WhiteHistoryMonth, I found myself getting increasingly annoyed in the queue to board the last flight from Murtala Mohmammed International Airport, Lagos to Johannesburg. Behind me stood two South Africans, who were giggling and entertaining each other in a way that had they been ten, or in their teens, an accompanying adult would have asked them to take it down a notch.
The realism and violence in ’12 Years a Slave’
In a non-sensationalist manner, without super-heroes and special effects, director Steve McQueen allows the viewer not just be horrified, but to empathize too.
When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie met Sweden
Sweden is a country living under the illusion of a special kind of exceptionalism, including that it is “less affected by postcolonial relations than other nations.”
This Film Has Been Banned
The South African feature film, “Of Good Report,” deals with the relationship of a teacher with his underage student. The local censors decided it is a crime to screen it.