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Women Filmmakers Are Redefining African Cinema: Spotlight on Sanaa El Alaoui’s Aicha
Note: This feature contains mentions of rape and sexual violence. Across Africa, as in much of the world, female subjectivity has long been filtered through a male gaze rather than a woman’s own voice. For decades, women’s roles on screen were imagined, written, and directed mostly by men. Nigeria’s pioneering…
The Art of Editing: A Conversation with Nathan Delannoy
Photo source: Spoiler Alert Radio. Nathan Delannoy – French Film Editor – La Classe Américaine, The Madness Between Us, Woke, Vestiaires, Tijuana Bible, Kitchen Brigade, Mami Wata.” Spoiler Alert Radio, February 23, 2024. Accessed August 26, 2025. https://spoileralertradio.libsyn.com/nathandelannoy On August 14th, we had the chance to have an interview with…
Conversation With C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi: Turning Dreams into Frames
Last Wednesday, July 9, Scott Hillier, President of the ÉCU Film Festival Group, had the opportunity to sit down with acclaimed Nigerian filmmaker C. J. Obasi. Our conversation revolved around his latest film Mami Wata, which won Africa’s Best Independent Film at the 2024 All African Independent Film Festival (AAIFF…
From Pain to Gain
A Fight to Reclaim How Film is Challenging FGM and Empowering Women “Woman”: just two letters more than “Man.” But those two letters mark two vastly different experiences. “Woman” is not even a word of its own—a term constructed from another, reflecting only one perspective. Etymologically, it means a man’s…
The American University of Paris Screening – A Recap
Paris, 7th November 2024 The American University in Paris (AUP) recently gave us the pleasure of hosting a screening of a selection of the films from our first All African Independent Film Festival. Hosted at the beautiful American University campus only a mile away from the Eiffel Tower, the screening…
Emerging Voices — The Landscape of Independent Film in Africa
What is African cinema and what characterizes it? This question seems to have thousands of possible answers. Due to the size of the country, it seems difficult to speak of „one African cinema“. To get us an insight into Africa’s world of film, we got the chance to talk with…
