Feedback Survey for the 2025 African Film Festival (Department of Black Studies)

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Greetings from the Department of Black Studies!

We’re bringing back the African Film Festival that was once one of our annual events (pre-covid), and we’d love for it to be part of Africa Week this spring.

This survey is designed to get feedback and suggestions from PASA members, as we want this multi-day event to be student-centered. We’d be grateful if you can take a few minutes to fill out this short survey to help us plan around your interests and schedules. Below you’ll find questions about choosing films, and choosing what days and times you think would bring out the most student attendance. Each screening will have some kind of food and beverage—some combination of pizza, popcorn, cookies, soda, and the like.

We're tentatively planning for up to three screenings, with each film focused on a different theme: 1) gender/sexuality/LGBTQ+ experience; 2) documentary/experimental; 3) classic African cinema. You'll find these categories below, with suggested possible films (and links), along with a blank field for you to provide your own suggestion that's not listed here. Please note that we're restricted to screening films that have distributors that handle copyright permissions.

Please complete this survey by Saturday February 22, to allow us time to secure films, copyright, and screening space on campus. And feel free to forward this survey on to anyone who might also want to give their input.

You're welcome to write to Professor Omelsky (BLST Director of Undergraduate Studies) at matthew.omelsky@rochester.edu with any questions.

Dates and times: Our initial idea is to hold three screening sessions, each of a different film, with one on Friday evening (April 4), one on Saturday afternoon (April 5), and one on Saturday evening (April 5). If the events are well-advertised, do you think students would have interest in coming to one or more of these screenings at these times? If not, please tell us other times during Africa Week you think would be better for student turn out. Please also let us know if you think 3 screenings would be too much.

What film would you like to have screened for the gender/sexuality/LGBTQ+ category?

Wanuri Kahiu (dir.), Rafiki (2018) [https://www.wanurikahiu.com/rafiki]

CJ Obasi (dir.), Mami Wata (2023) [https://www.dekanalog.com/films/mami-wata]

Rosine Mbakam (dir.), Chez Jolie Coiffure (2019) [https://icarusfilms.com/if-chez]

Rungano Nyoni (dir.), I Am Not a Witch (2017) [https://www.filmmovement.com/product/i-am-not-a-witch]

Other:

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What film would you like to have screened for the documentary/experimental category?

Raoul Peck (dir.), Lumumba (2001) [https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/lumumba]

Agnes Ndibi, Maji-da Abdi, and Fanta Nacro (dirs.), Africa, Africas (2001) [https://www.wmm.com/catalog/film/africa-africas/]

Ephraim Asili (dir.), The Diaspora Suite (2011-2017) [https://www.vdb.org/titles/diaspora-suite]

Ngozi Onwurah (dir.), Monday’s Girls (1993) [https://newsreel.org/video/MONDAYS-GIRLS]

Other:

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What film would you like to have screened for the classic African cinema category?

Ousmane Sembène (dir.), Xala (1975) [https://www.janusfilms.com/films/2138]

Djibril Diop Mambéty (dir.), Hyenas (1992) [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104467/]

Tunde Kelani (dir.), Thunderbolt (2000) [https://films.com/ecTitleDetail.aspx?TitleID=168545&r=S]

Abderrahmane Sissako (dir.), Bamako (2006) [https://icarusfilms.com/if-bamako]

Other:

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Please tell us any other thoughts or preferences you might have to help us make this a successful series of events.

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