DESCRIPTION
Founded by African filmmakers in Burkina Faso in 1992, during a period of intense worldwide interest and commentary on African T.V. and film, the bilingual journal Ecrans d'Afrique: Revue Internationale de Cinema Television et Video (also known as African Screen) explored all aspects of African film production. It, along with its many contemporaries, sought to ameliorate an intellectual climate which suffered from a dearth of commentary on African film. A corollary of the journal's efforts was to improve worldwide exposure and access to African films - it was linked to the Festival Panafricain du Cinema de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the continent's leading film festival, from its inception. Ecrans d'Afrique has also been lauded for its wide gaze covering the whole of the African diaspora and for its excellent coverage of Caribbean film developments.
PEOPLE
Clement Tapsoba, Alessandra Speciale, Francoise Pfaff, Mbye B. Cham, Baba Diop, William Tanifeani, Therese-Marie Deffontaines, Jean Servais Bakyono, Frank Ukadike, Beti Ellerson
FAMILY TREE
- La Feuille (1990)
- Le Film africain (1991)
- Regard (1992)
- Black Film Bulletin (1993)
RE/SOURCES
- Ecrans d'Afrique on Wikipedia
- FESPACO (Festival Panafricain du Cinema de Ouagadougou)
- "Nous sommes tous responsables," Abdoulaye Dao
- Research in African Literatures special issue on African film, Fall 1995, 26.3.
- Iris special issue on African film, Spring 1995,18.
- Films d'Afrique, edited by Michel Larouche.
- Sub- Saharan African Films and Filmmakers: An Annotated Bibliography (London: Hans Zell Publishers, 1988)
- Sub-Saharan African Films and Filmmakers 1987-1992: An Annotated Bibliography (London: Hans Zell Publishers, 1994)
- "The Challenges of African Film Bibliography: Content and Audience," African Research and Documentation, 72 (1996), 1-8.
- Cinemas of the Black Diaspora, Michael T. Martin
- African Cinema: Politics and Culture, Manthia Diawara
- Black and Third Cinema: Film and Television Bibliography, Vieler-Porter
- Critical Perspectives on Black Independent Cinema, Cham and Andrade-Watkins
- Schmidt, Nancy J. "Special Issues of Periodicals on African Film." African Studies Review, Vol. 40, No. 1, (Apr., 1997), pp. 113-119
- "Documents: Ecrans d'Afrique"
- "Ecrans d'Afrique / African Screen Conversations with Keyan Tomaselli- Ecrans d'Afrique"
