“The Culture of Film Curating” shines a light on outstanding curators and explores the unique cultural practices that they bring to their work. The discussion will focus on collaborating with various types of institutions while working to preserve a plurality of international film cultures.
Greg de Cuir Jr in conversation with Alia Ayman and Matthew Barrington.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion are the buzzwords that litter program initiatives in the entertainment industry as of late. This podcast will discuss ongoing efforts by change makers in the Festival space to close and challenge the systemic access gap for programmers of color.
Irene Soriano in conversation with Lucy Jane Mukerjee and Faridah Gbadamosi.
Filmmaker and archivist Jihan El-Tahri and creator, host of The What’s Up with Docs podcast, and archival researcher Toni Bell chat once more one year into Jihan’s multi-disciplinary project, “People’s Stories – Past & Present: Bridging the Silenced and Liminal Spaces of African Imagery”.
Toni Bell in conversation with Jihan El-Tahri.
DOK Leipzig in collaboration with What's Up With Docs.
Moderated by Claire Diao, a conversation with Jihan El-Tahri, Jean-Marie Téno, Femi Odugbemi.
DOK Leipzig in collaboration with POC2, Programmers of Colour Collective.
A comedic look at recent pop-culture documentaries exposing abuse practices wrapped in positivity culture. Curated and moderated by Shakira Refos, a conversation with Cate Stuart and Jawara Gordon.
DOK Leipzig in collaboration with POC2, Programmers of Colour Collective.
The Caribbean has traditionally been dominated by Hollywood, and the kinds of films made by the region’s filmmakers often tends to reflect that dominance. Might there be room for other, more experimental approaches to filmmaking?
DOK Leipzig in collaboration with POC2, Programmers of Colour Collective.
In the larger mainstream cinematic space, or even film festival space, there is an acute shortage of both narrative and documentary films made and exhibited with brown LGBTQ+ stories at its center.
Curated and moderated by Sridhar Rangayan, a conversation with Sonal Giani, Kalki Subramaniam and Arshad Wasi Khan.
DOK Leipzig in collaboration with POC2, Programmers of Colour Collective.
During this conversation, the creator and host of the What’s Up with Docs Podcast and archival researcher Toni Bell will speak with artist, writer, filmmaker, and teacher Mariam Ghani about her latest project “What We Left Unfinished” which is executive produced by Alysa Nahamis.
DOK Leipzig in collaboration with The What’s Up With Docs Podcast.
Filmmaker and archivist Jihan El Tahri and creator, host of The What’s Up with Docs podcast and archival researcher Toni Bell talk about the manifesto “Liberate the Image” which was a call to action to make archives more accessible to content creators living in the Global South.
Reflecting on current calls to decolonise documentary film practices and to expand filmic canons, filmmaker Rosine Mbakam and festival founder and director Mahen Bonetti discuss the particulars of community-oriented production and exhibition practices with independent programmer Abby Sun.