#african director

[elisanous]

La Femme Au Couteau (The Woman With a Knife). Director: Timité Bassori (Ivory Coast, 1969).

[artfilmfan]

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson, 2023)

cinematography: Jomo Fray

[yourdailyqueer]

Mary P. Burrill (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: August 1881 

RIP: 13 March 1946

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Writer, playwright, professor, director, activist

[noosphe-re]

Ousmane Sembène, Caméra d'Afrique (African Cinema: Filming Against All Odds)

[folditdouble]

Women in Film Challenge 2024: [41/52] Luxor, dir. Zeina Durra (Egypt/UK/UAE, 2020)

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”

[afrotumble]

[tllgrrl]

Adepero Oduye supporting and celebrating her friend, playwright Jocelyn Bioh’s work JA JA’s African Hair Braiding on its opening night on Broadway!

Black women Creatives out there supporting each other on stage and on the picket lines!

Love to see it!

[dyingenigma]

[beingharsh]

Atlantics (2019), dir. Mati Diop

[peachiyyy]

I don’t give a fuck about pronouncing European names correctly. I don’t know why bipoc are expected to be so well-versed in European culture or do ‘white people shit’ to be respected and taken seriously when our own cultures are rich, elegant, and beautiful. These people don’t even take two seconds out of their day to pronounce the easiest ethnic names but I have to know how to say every single Russian or French name properly or else I’ll be deemed as ‘unintelligent’? Don’t piss me off.

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Eva Jessye

Singer, composer, and choral director Eva Jessye was born in 1895 in Coffeyville, Kansas. In 1926, Jessye founded the Dixie Jubilee Choir, which would later be renamed the Eva Jessye Choir. The choir recorded for major record labels and performed at the 1963 March on Washington. In 1935, George Gershwin selected Jessye as choral director for Porgy and Bess, and she would be involved with nearly every production of the show for the next thirty years. During her career, she also published a collection of traditional songs and composed three oratorios.

Eva Jessye died in 1992 at the age of 97.

Image source: New York Public Library

[mt-nynj-queer]

Thabang Moleya

[artfilmfan]

Earth Mama (Savanah Leaf, 2023)

[yourdailyqueer]

Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: Born 1989

Ethnicity: Nigerian

Occupation: Producer, screenwriter, director, activist

Note: Creates works which tell the stories of Nigeria's marginalised LGBTQ communities. In 2020 the BBC included her in its list of the 100 Women of the Year.

[deadassdiaspore]

BOROM SARRET (1963)

[folditdouble]

Women in Film Challenge 2024: [7/52] Fig Tree, dir. Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian (Israel/France/Ethiopia/Germany, 2018)

You wanted to get rid of your fear, but you swallowed it instead.