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    A Hadza girl is laying on a rock plateau, holding a camera and looking critically at the camera. Behind her, the vast landscape of Tanzania’s nature.
    Film + TV
    13 March 2025

    'Children of Honey:' The Hadzabe Want the World to Know Who They Are

    How a Tanzanian filmmaker's collaboration with the Hadzabe people is redefining impact-driven documentary at Geneva's prestigious human rights film festival.

    A black and white photo of a dreadlocked man staring directly at the camera.
    News
    06 March 2025

    With His Audio Drama, This Ghanaian Filmmaker Rethinks How We Experience History

    In ‘Goodbye, Goldcoast’, Joewackle J. Kusi inventively explores the everyday lives affected by Ghana’s Independence.

    Director/writer Souleymane Cisse speaks onstage at the Tribeca Talks Directors Series: Souleymane Cisse With Martin Scorsese during the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival at SVA Theater on April 29, 2011 in New York City.
    News
    20 February 2025

    Tributes Roll in for Pioneer of African Cinema, Souleymane Cissé

    Cissé was the first African filmmaker to win the Cannes Grand Jury Prize, for his 1987 seminal masterpiece, ‘Yeleen.’

     Senegalese filmmaker Moe Sow posing for a picture in a white tunic-like outfit with a skyline behind him.
    News
    17 October 2024

    Senegalese Filmmaker Moe Sow Wants to Unearth Forgotten African History

    With the release of a well-lauded docu-fiction focused on the life of a forgotten Senegalese historical figure, Moe Sow has his eyes set on reviving other buried stories.

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