June Givanni, the British film curator and writer best known for her work chronicling African and African diaspora cinema, will receive the honorary Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema award at this year’s BAFTAs.
Givanni will pick up the prize at next month’s BAFTA Film Awards as part of a celebration of her work to date, including that of The June Givanni PanAfrican Archive (JGPACA).
Based in London, the JGPACA is a volunteer-run archive founded and amassed by June Givanni over forty years as part of her wider curatorial work and is dedicated to preserving the history of pan-African and Black British cinema and culture.
It comprises over 10,000 rare and unique artifacts documenting the development of filmmaking across Africa and the African diaspora and has grown to become one of the largest independent archives in the UK. “I was shocked and am honored to receive such recognition from BAFTA for work that I have been privileged to be able to do with some of the most inspired and inspiring people in the world of cinema generally and Pan African cinema and culture in particular,” Givanni said, adding: “Especially with the energies of the younger generation of thinkers, curators and artists who bring dynamic energies to working with and discovering, the archives of the moving image from a pre-digital age.
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