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The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) (originally African Diaspora Film Festival) was founded in 1992 by French-Malian Diarah N'Daw-Spech and her husband, Reinaldo Barroso-Spech, a Cuban of Haitian and Jamaican descent. As young cinema enthusiasts who rarely found movies that reflected their Black experiences, the couple ...
The largest film festival in Africa is the biennial Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) held in Burkina Faso. In the tables below, "mixed" in the Details column, indicates that the festival screens films of different formats and genres (feature and short films, fiction and documentaries).
Salome is best known for her first feature film, Woven, and for winning the Audience Narrative Award for Film Directed by Women of Color at the African Diaspora International Film Festival in New York. Mulugeta and Nagwa Ibrahim co-directed Woven which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival. [1]
The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) has set its lineup of narrative and documentary features for its 28th edition, including Jussie Smollett’s return to acting in “The Lost Holliday ...
The day’s sessions — wide-ranging, spirited, at times fractious — highlighted both the dynamism of film and TV production in Africa and its diaspora, as well as the challenges filmmakers ...
Between 2016 and 2017, Kuwornu attended many international events on the film industry, such as in Brasil, al Encontro de Cinema Negro Zózimo Bulbul, in Ghana at The National Film and Television Institute, in Spain at the festival Cine Africano, as well as in South Africa, Tanzania, Netherlands, U.K., France, hence becoming an internationally ...
All Middle East and African films presented at the festival will be eligible, while Atlas Workshops director Hédi Zardi tells Variety that he expects to award up to 15 projects in this year’s ...
The "Étalon d'or de Yennenga" is awarded to the African film that best shows "Africa's realities". Other special awards include the Oumarou Ganda Prize, given for the best first film, and the Paul Robeson Prize for the best film by a director of the African diaspora. (The latter is named for a major 20th-century American actor, singer and ...