The challenge to take African films to African audiences

Authors

  • Emi Koide Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de História da Arte, Guarulhos - SP, CEP: 07112-000

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v1n2.79

Abstract

Article about the 7th edition of Lagunimages Film Festival (Cotonou, Benim), from December the 5th to 8th 2013.

Author Biography

Emi Koide, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de História da Arte, Guarulhos - SP, CEP: 07112-000

Emi Koide is  FAPESP (The State of São Paulo Research Foundation) Post-doctoral Fellow from the Department of History of Art at Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Brazil), with the project research “Images from Africa: Specters from the colonization of Congo, DRC”. She received a Ph.D. (2011) in Psychology from Institute of Psychology at Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), with the support of Fapesp, working with cinema and memory representation. She has a Master Degree (2003) in Communication (Aesthetics and Film Studies) from School of Communications and Arts from the same university. Member of Casa das Áfricas, she was program counselor for the 7th Lagunimages Festival 2013  in Cotonou (Benim). She currently develops research in audiovisual, expanded cinema, contemporary art and post-colonialism.

Published

2014-06-08

Issue

Section

Exhibitions and film festivals