We are a collective of curators/creatives from Bristol/Birmingham committed to exploring black life through cinema. #ComeTheRev
Bristol / Birmingham, UK
Joined July 2015
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🗣 African Sonnets: Online Poetry Workshop with Dr Afua Ansong & LOATAD
18 & 20 Oct 2022
In this generative and revision workshop, we will create and engage with the sonnet form to make it "African,” playing with indigenous language and proverbs.
Apply: bit.ly/loatadansong
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A chance to support and steer the great work of @AiMfilmfest, and to work with the wonderful @elchronicle!
#AiMFilmFest is undergoing significant change, and we need your help! During this exciting time in our development, we're keen to appoint talented individuals who are as passionate as we are about African/Black diaspora artistic expression👇
bit.ly/CallAimTrustees
#recruitment
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Film Africa 2022 is almost here! Check out the trailer and visit the website to see the 48 curated titles that will be showing across London from October 28th. filmafrica.org/whats-on/
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📌 "Coming Down To Earth" 🌍✨🎥 the audio documentary which is part of the @takeoneaction festival programme by the artist Tanatsei Gambura is a celebration and discourse around the concept of land.
⚡️ Available until Oct 31st.⚡️
takeoneaction.org.uk/event/c…
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Racist hate crimes pass 100,000 in England and Wales for first time theguardian.com/uk-news/2022…
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🗣 OPEN CALL FOR AFRICAN WRITERS
🗣 The African Union AU20 “Our Africa, Our Future” Writers Residency Programme at LOATAD
🗣 Apply: loatad.org/au20
🗣 Deadline: 30 September 2022
#au20 #ourafrica #loatad
@_AfricanUnion @africanofilter
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#AiMFilmFest is undergoing significant change, and we need your help! During this exciting time in our development, we're keen to appoint talented individuals who are as passionate as we are about African/Black diaspora artistic expression👇
bit.ly/CallAimTrustees
#recruitment
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"They must be in the images, behind the camera, in the editing room and involved in every stage of the making of a film. African women must be everywhere — they must be the ones to talk about their problems."
- Sarah Maldoror ❤️ #Sambizanga
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Great Ryan Gilbey piece in @guardian today to mark the start of an @BFI Pam Grier season playing at #BFISouthbank. I also love @charlieshack on holding on to old movies.
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“It’s a difficult movie to describe with any elegance, which is a good thing, because what’s enriching about it exists more powerfully in images than in speech.” - @RollingStone
Find out how BFI FAN can support your screenings of NEPTUNE FROST.
the-bigger-picture.com/artic…
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This is a fine profile by @kehinde_andrews of local hero Roy Hackett of the Bristol Bus Boycott and other battles for justice. theguardian.com/society/2020…
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📌STREAMING GLOBALLY🌍
We're thrilled to support the upcoming @guardianlive talk with artist/filmmaker #SteveMcQueen, Prof. @bungatuffie, @tate director @mbalshaw hosted by @garyyounge, with a special discounted ticket rate.
👉 bit.ly/McQueenTalk
📅JUNE 22
⏰8pm BST
#Year3
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This Frid 24 @TrowTownHall presents #CasablancaBeats a Moroccan film dir. by Nabil Ayouch who spent 2 years working with a non-professional cast +Basbousi, a former rapper. A film filled with music + the joy of youth people finding their voice #Trowbridge trowbridgetownhall.com/event…
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Burning an Illusion (UK, 1981, Dir: Menelik Shabazz)
See it back on the big screen 24 July @wshed as part of #CineRedis22 newly remastered c/o @BFI - watershed.co.uk/whatson/1131…
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📌HOW TO ATTEND AN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL
📆Free, 29 Oct - bit.ly/3plQ9rO ✨
Join us for a provocative inquiry into the film festival circuit. We'll discuss the politics of filmmaking/film-viewing in the context of racialised, gendered & geopolitical regimes of identity.
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SCOTTISH PREMIERE
In 1950s Las Vegas, a Black singer is on the verge of her big break, but she risks it all when she learns her audience won't be integrated.
Watch 'Magnolia Bloom' by @tayolamos at #aimfilmfest 15-31 Oct 🎥
bit.ly/3EtMI6K
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Just five more days to delve into @AiMfilmfest’s jam-packed programme! All films are available to watch online on a #SlidingScale basis.
Have a browse: africa-in-motion.org.uk
📌Our full festival trailer is here! 🥳
🗓️Join us 15-31 October
Enjoy the very best of African and diaspora cinema from the comfort of your own home! With over 90 films + Q&A’s there's something for everyone. bit.ly/AiM21
📽️@kurlykael
#AiMFilmFest #FilmTwitter
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Exec produced by @ThandiweNewton and @mrdannyglover, don't miss our special preview of #CamillaNielsson's @sundancefest winner PRESIDENT.
Screening 22 - 24 October - bit.ly/3ahthB1
#AiMFilmFest #ZimbabweanLivesMatter 🇿🇼
SPECIAL PREVIEW
President / Dir. #CamillaNielsson
We are delighted to present a special preview PRESIDENT. The film premiered in @sundancefest's World #Documentary Competition and went on to win the Special Jury Award in Vérité Filmmaking. bit.ly/3ahthB1
#AiMFilmFest