The PanAfrican Cinema Podcast

This month's podcast takes us back to autumn 2024, when programmer, teacher and curator, Abiba Coulibaly, popped into the archive for a long overdue chat with the archival team. Together we took a deep dive into Abiba’s influences, her curatorial practice and what drives the unique ethos of 'Atlas Cinema' and 'Brixton Community Cinema'. Find links to her amazing work and t...

The JGPACA Podcast returns with another special conversation from the vaults. This time we bring you a sit down with Tunisian artist Maya Louhichi. We explored her work and relationship to her father, the renowned filmmaker and writer Taïeb Louhichi. Find out more and see her work at @maya.louhichi or mayalouhichi.com https://www.junegivannifilmarchive.org/ @junegivannifilmarchive

This podcast brings you all a fascinating and inspiring screening & Q and A between June Givanni and Amani Naphtali from earlier this Autumn. Please do seek out Amani's work and you can watch a film of his groundbreaking play 'Raggamuffin' at Brixton's Ritzy on December 12th hosted by JGPACA!  Amani Naphtali is a trained dramatist, writer, director and filmmaker. He was a f...

On Friday the 13th September we were honoured to show the seminal film 'Twilight City' as part of our JGPACA film club. The Director, - and key member of the Black Audio Film Collective -  Reece Auguiste sat down that afternoon with our archival team for a wide ranging and insightful conversation about Reeces' process, his artistic influences and the impetus behind the making of the...

This episode is a very special exploration of the life and films of Nicolás Guillén Landrián and is the third in our collaborative JGPACA series entitled African Film Heritage and Restitution. We were delighted to work on such vital work with Dr Jessica Gordon-Burroughs (Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Visual Culture at University of Edinburgh) and Nikolaus Pernezcky (a Leverhulme Early Car...

In July, the JGPACA team welcomed to the archive the seminal filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah to explore what items and artefacts from her illustrious career were in our holdings. We were delighted to present to her a variety of film stills, interviews, reviews, publicity and photographs —- not to mention copies of her films dating back to her debut work Coffee Coloured Children in 1988. After her visit, t...

For today’s episode we bring you a very special conversation between filmmaker, academic  and JGPACA director Imruh Bakari and Dr Boukary Sawadogo, associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Black Studies at The City College of New York. Held in association with the Global Cultures Institute at King’s College London, this event took a deep dive into Boukary’s practice and the complexities of teachi...

Today's podcast is a wide and enriching conversation we had at the archive following a screening of D Elmina Davis' seminal documentary about women in Rastafari from 1988 called Omega Rising. This film was shown as part of a double bill with Nicholas Chauderge's, Born-in-a Babylon, which documents the enduring Rastafari communities in north and east London at the turn of the millenn...

Today’s episode takes us back to November 2023, when we hosted a screening of Imruh Bakari’s Film,  Riots and Rumours of Riots at the May Day Rooms in central London. We were lucky enough to hold a discussion with Imruh afterwards about the process of making the film and also hear a selection of his poetry! Enjoy! https://www.junegivannifilmarchive.org/ @junegivannifilmarchive

This spotlight episode stems from a Zine Making workshop which was the second part of an event series called ‘Publishing and Archiving beyond the mainstream’. These sessions were put on alongside our Friends at the May Day Rooms, and invited young people to creatively respond to the archive, learn more about Junes work in co-founding the Black Film Bulletin, and also the influence of its American...

Episode 2 of the Pan African Cinema Podcast is a panel conversation on African film heritage featuring four eminent African filmmakers, Jihan El-Tahri (Egypt), Ali Essafi (Morocco), Nii-Kwate Owoo (Ghana) and Jean-Marie Téno (Cameroon). We talked about Africa's displaced, contested and silenced film archives, the recuperation of archival images by means of found footage filmmaking, and the ca...

Welcome to the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Podcast. In the first five episodes, we will be asking filmmakers, archivists and cultural activists what the recently renewed call for restitution and reparations means for African film heritage, what forms the restitution of moving images might take, and how to confront persistent obstacles. Our guest in this episode is Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Mar...