Arguing for a participatory curatorial approach, the lead curators of Africa in Motion present the rationale behind their work to popularise, preserve and celebrate films made by African women.
Stefanie Van de Peer
Stefanie Van de Peer is a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on women in documentary and animation filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa. She has worked for several film festivals as an adviser and programmer, and has been affiliated with Africa in Motion since 2007. Her main publications include the edited collections Art and Trauma in Africa (2013); Film Festivals and the Middle East (2014); and the BAFTSS award-winning Animation in the Middle East (2017). Her first monograph, entitled Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary, was published in 2017 by Edinburgh University Press. She is currently co-writing a new book with Lizelle Bisschoff, on the topic of Women in African Cinema, for publication with Routledge in 2019.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey