June Givanni

A journey through the archive of BAFTA award-winning curator and film programmer, June Givanni. This private collection made public contains thousands of films from across Africa, the Caribbean and the diaspora amassed in a career spanning more than 40 years. Using oral history interviews and ephemera from four film festivals as her touchstones, Onyeka Igwe offers a way to encounter Pan-African film through the archive. Using original oral history research with June and other key figures in Pan-African and Black British cinema, Onyeka uncovers the important role that women festival organisers, programmers and cultural workers have played in Pan-African cinema history. In tracing and naming the cinematic legacies that ground political filmmaking practices today, she preserves June's work, knowledge and fervour for Pan African cinema for future generations.