For Lovers of African Art
A brief history lesson extracted just for you from Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Check it out and share your 2 cents! According to popular legend, cinema was first introduced to...
You can indeed find African movies on Netflix! They don’t have a wide palette of choices but there’s some great ones. To make your life easier from hunting, you can be sure they...
Here are the updates on the nominations and presenters for the 2014 Africa Movie Awards! -Come the 2nd of April, The Africa Film Academy will host African filmmakers and celebrities during the 10th Africa...
For those of you out there in St Louis Missouri, better make plans to attend the African Film Festival going down from Friday 28th-30th of March! A great chance to watch a fresh new...
Described by Françoise Pfaff as a “strong-minded and outspoken yet amiable woman possessing a keen sense of humor,” Safi Faye believes that a structure must bear the signature of the film. Although she is...
Let’s talk about African Cinema today. Never mind the crass title but it’s a fact: Film production and distribution has declined significantly for the continent. Yes, the Nigerian film industry, Nollywood and a few...
Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a technically savvy Senegalese film director and one the most unique of all African artists. Mambety had studied drama in Senegal, and he worked as...
Med Hondo, whose full name is Abid Mohamed Medoun Hondo is an expatriate Mauritanian film director. His films mainly focus on the experiences of Africans abroad. The son of farmers, Med Hondo (b.May 4,1936)...
What is Third Cinema? Third Cinema, also called Third World Cinema; a type of film and film theory prevalent in Africa, Latin America, and Asia that strives to transform society by educating and radicalizing...
Souleymane Cisse is a Malian Filmmaker (b. April 21, 1940, Bamako, Mali) and one of the most popular directors in Africa. He became a film devotee as a young child, when his brothers took...
