FESPACO and the Archiving of African Cinema Panel Discussion | PerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive

FESPACO and the Archiving of African Cinema With June Givanni (chair), Mohamed Challouf, Jihan El-Tahri, Aboubakar Sanogo and Keith Shiri   Since its establishment in 1969, the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in Burkina Faso has been considered one of the most important festivals of the African, and later the African diaspora’s, filmic imagination. Chaired by June Givanni, this panel charts and explores FESPACO’s histories and legacies.