The Pan-African Film Consortium

The opening night of the Durban FilmMart 18 July 2024 in Durban South Africa. Left to right: Chairperson of DFM, Mpumi Mazibuko; His Worship, the Mayor, Cllr Xaba; Director of Content in Sub-Saharan Africa for Netflix, Dorothy Ghettuba; City Manager, Musa Mbhele; and Director of the Durban FilmMart, Magdalene Reddy.

Photos from the recently concluded Luxor Africa Film Festival in Egypt

Photos from the recently concluded Pan-African Film Festival in Los Angeles

Congratulations Mati Diop for Dahomey’s big win at the Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival

Our winner of the 2024 Golden Bear for Best Film, director Mati Diop with the statue for “Dahomey“, produced by Eve Robin, Judith Lou Lévy, and Mati Diop.

Once again: Big applause and congratulations!

Berlinale is almost here!

Berlinale 2024

Afriff is currently on. Lets support African Cinema!

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Fespaco is on!

Heavyweights🏆 and of the Film/TV industry on PAFF’s opening night 🤩🎬🍿

🎞️ Join us Virtually Feb 21-Mar 31 💻

PAFF continues the prestigious tradition of showcasing outstanding ✨ NEW FILMS ✨
🍿 Every year PAFF continues to showcase over 200 new high-quality Black films from the U.S., Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, the South Pacific, Canada, and increasingly, Asia. 🌍

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Pan-African Film Consortium mourns leading Senegalese filmmaker, Safi Faye, November 22, 1943 – February 22, 2023.

Safi played a big role in the struggle to grow the African cinema industry. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, Kaddu Beykat, which was released in 1975. She has directed several documentary and fiction films focusing on rural life in Senegal. Africa will always celebrate mama Safi.

Fespaco 2023

The opening of the Luxor Africa Film Festival in Egypt. Congratulations and have a great festival.

Happy birthday to an outstanding film producer
You made Africa proud with Mami Wata’s outing at Sundance film festival.

Temilade Openiyi, professionally known as becomes Nigeria’s first artist to be nominated for an Oscars for her performance in ‘Lift Me Up’ alongside Rihanna and director Ryan Coogler as Marvel’s hit movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever competes for Best Original Soundtrack category of

From the press conference of the Luxor Africa Film Festival 2023 and the announcement of the events of the twelfth session.

Nigerian filmmaker and arrives Sundance Film Festival 2023 for the world premiere of their film Mami Wata. We wish them an amazing experience!

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These great filmmakers will be heading the jury at .bf

Fespaco 2023
25 February to 04 March
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.

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“Freedom is what we all felt on our trip to Independence Square and throughout our entire experience in Ghana🇬🇭 “. These where the words of American Artiste as she shared photos of her beautiful experience in Ghana.

Your demise is a huge loss to the African Cinema Industry. Rest in peace PMO.

Mandabi: A 1968 classic by the father of African Cinema Ousmane Sembène.

The first film director from an African country to achieve international recognition, Ousmane Sembene remains the major figure in the rise of an independent post-colonial African cinema. Sembene's roots were not, as might be expected, in the educated élite. After working as a mechanic and bricklayer, he joined the Free French forces in 1942, serving in Africa and France. In 1946, he returned to Dakar, where he participated in the great railway strike of 1947.

His first novel, "Le Docker Noir", was published in 1956 to critical acclaim. Since then, he has produced a number of works which have placed him in the foreground of the international literary scene. Long an avid filmgoer, Sembene became aware that to reach a mass audience of workers and preliterate Africans outside urban centers, cinema was a more effective vehicle than the written word. In 1961, he traveled to Moscow to study film at VGIK and then to work at the Gorky Studios. Upon his return to Senegal, Sembene turned his attention to filmmaking and, after two short films, he wrote and directed his first feature, Black Girl (1966)(english title: Black Girl). Received with great enthusiasm at a number of international film festivals, it also won the prestigious Jean Vigo Prize for its director. Shot in a simple, quasi-documentary style probably influenced by the French New Wave, BLACK GIRL tells the tragic story of a young Senegalese woman working as a maid for an affluent French family on the Riviera, focusing on her sense of isolation and growing despair. Her country may have been "decolonized," but she is still a colonial -- a non-person in the colonizers' world. Sembene's next film, Mandabi (1968) (english title: The Money Order), marked a sharp departure. Based on his novel of the same name and shot in color in two language versions--French and Wolof, the main dialect of Senegal.

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