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Publication ceased around the turn of the millennium, but now the Black Film Bulletin is coming back. ICO Director Catharine Des Forges spoke to its co-founder June Givanni, Curator and Director of June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive; Melanie Hoyes, Industry Inclusion Executive at BFI and Jan Asante, Curator at Think Cinematic for part three of an extended conversation about the role of the BFB now, the effects of the pandemic on the industry and how they are looking ahead.

Publication ceased around the turn of the millennium, but now the Black Film Bulletin is coming back. ICO Director Catharine Des Forges spoke to its co-founder June Givanni, Curator and Director of June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive; Melanie Hoyes, Industry Inclusion Executive at BFI and Jan Asante, Curator at Think Cinematic for part two of an extended conversation about the role of the BFB now and which filmmakers they would like to celebrate in the next iteration. 

Founded by editors Dr. June Givanni and Gaylene Gould, the Black Film Bulletin (BFB) was first published at the BFI in 1993. An essential space for writing on new Black cinema and Pan African Cinema histories, it documented a renaissance moment for Black filmmaking culture around the globe. Publication ceased in 2000, but now the BFB is coming back. In this post, part one of an extended conversation, ICO Director Catharine Des Forges talks to co-founder June Givanni at the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive, Melanie Hoyes at the BFI and Jan Asante at Think Cinematic about the history of the BFB, their path to the new iteration and their hopes for it now.

In this blog, the ICO's Director Catharine Des Forges and Senior Programmer (Projects) Selina Robertson look back on two years of The Cinema of Ideas, an innovative online platform for collaborative screenings and events.

Carefree, childlike wonder and freedom of expression have proven to be sparse attributes in characterisations of Black childhood on British screens. It is an ‘adultification’ of Black children that has real-time, real-life repercussions; a denial of an essential, humanising ideal of innocence, that robs Black children of their childhood, places adult responsibilities on their young bodies and puts them subsequently in danger.

Our regular monthly update featuring all the news and opportunities that matter for your cinema, festival or film society right now.

Amongst other areas, our recent Black Film Bulletin blog series touched on Black filmmakers of the past and present, some of whose work has not been widely seen, and their vast and exciting potential to inform, inspire and reward both cinema programmers and audiences today. For this post, we asked Adam Murray, film programmer, filmmaker, writer/critic and broadcaster at Bristol/Birmingham curatorial collective Come The Revolution and Rico Johnson-Sinclair, Director of CineQ, a queer film exhibition organisation that prioritises queer, trans and intersex people of colour, to share the Black filmmakers and creatives they are most influenced and inspired by – and whose work, in their opinion, hasn't yet received the recognition it deserves.

Our regular monthly update featuring all the news and opportunities that matter for your cinema, festival or film society right now.

Our regular monthly update featuring all the news and opportunities that matter for your cinema, festival or film society right now.

Our regular monthly update featuring all the news and opportunities that matter for your cinema, festival or film society right now.