For Lovers of African Art
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...
I wanted to help you guys find where you can purchase or rent Ousmane Sembene’s films and books. Refer to my post Ousmane Sembene Films for more info on his films. Kudos to Mount Holyoke for...
Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian film director, critic and professor. Raised in Gondar, Ethiopia, as a child, he acted in his father’s troupe performing across the country.In 1967, he moved to the United States...
Watch documentaries online! You enjoy documentaries right? Let’s be honest, most these days don’t make the time to read about biographies or current events. The majority of people would most likely watch a movie...
Awards and prizes aren’t everything. But it’s still nice to have them. Films are here to delight us.These Oscar nominated and winning foreign films were made to touch audiences beyond their respective borders. Many...
Burkina Faso film director Idrissa Ouedraogo, born in 1954, is widely considered one the top members of a new generation of African filmmakers.The son of a civil servant, Ouedraogo studied English at the University...
Safi Faye, born in Senegal (1943), is one the few independent women filmmakers in Africa. Also the first African woman to complete a feature length film. She specializes in ethnographic films and learned a...
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