杏吧原创 Film Studies Professor Co-organizes International Symposium on Film Archiving
Professor Aboubakar Sanogo recently attended the 50th anniversary of the held from October 28th to November 5, 2016. The JCC are the very first film festival on the African continent and were co-founded by such pioneering figures in African cinema as Tahar Cheriaa and Ousmane Semb猫ne in 1966.
On the occasion of this celebration, Professor Sanogo co-organized, moderated and presented a paper during a two-day (October 29-30) International Symposium entitled 鈥淔ilm Heritage at Risk鈥, under the aegis of the Tunisian Ministry of Culture, the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts and the (FEPACI). Participants in the symposium included Christophe Dupin, Senior Administrator of the (FIAF), Nicola Mazzanti, Curator of the Royal Belgian Cin茅matek and Director of the Association of European Cin茅math猫ques, world-renowned Cambodian documentary filmmaker, Rithy Panh (S21, The Missing Picture), Ahmed Bedjaoui, Professor at the University of Algiers and pioneer of the Algerian Cin茅math猫que, Cecilia Cenciarelli, Head of Research and Special Projects of the Cineteca di Bologna, Hedi Jallab, Director of the National Archives of Tunisia, Gahit茅 Fofana, Head of the Audiovisual Resource Center in Guinea, Khaled Abdeljelil, Professor at the Higher Institute of Cinema and Advisor at the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, Khadija Habashneh, Project Coordinator for the Preservation of the ancient fund of Palestinian Films, Lea Morin of the Cin茅math猫que de Tanger (Morocco), Jose Manuel Costa, Director of the Portuguese Cin茅math猫que, Hichem Ben Ammar, Tunisian documentary film director and Mohamed Challouf, Artistic Director of the 50th anniversary of the Carthage Film Festival.
The symposium offered participants the opportunity to discuss and take stock of the state of film archiving in various countries and regions in Africa and the Global South (Tunisia, Guinea, Palestine, Cambodia, Cameroon, Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt) as well as explore strategies toward the creation and strengthening of film archival institutions in these countries and regions. This is the first of many such initiatives to come. Stay tuned!