AVMS Webinar: Preserving African Film Heritage
When
16 June 2025
Where
Online (Zoom)
Event will be recorded
Yes
Registration
Required
Event time
7-8:30am PDT/ 10am-11:30pm EDT/ 4-5:30pm CEST/ 2-3:30pm GMT/ 4-5:30pm SAST
Speaker Lineup
Amy Sall – Lecturer, Founder and Editor of SUNU: Journal of African Affairs, Critical Thought + Aesthetics
Author of The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power
Masego Mmutle – Assistant Director: Film and Video Preservation for the South African National, Film, Video and Sound Archives
Léonce Tira – Directeur de la Cinemathèque Africaine de Ouagadougou
Organizers
- Michele McKenzie – University of California, Berkeley
- Monique Threatt – Indiana University Bloomington
- Anna Bohn – Zentral – und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB)
- Raffael Ammann – Zurich University of the Arts
Co-sponsored by IFLA Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Division