Digging for gold

Discusses the challenges involved in curating African and African diaspora cinema, suggesting that programming African cinema requires an unearthing of the lineage of each film lineages of culture, history, cinematic endeavour, and aesthetic language - which are elements that help an audience to situate the film. Unearthing African classics is a shared responsibility for many professionals in the cinematic, academic and publishing industries. All have a part to play, but physically preserving such films and ensuring access to them requires clear strategies of preservation and archiving for the patrimony of cinema and of African culture to the benefit of all. (Quotes from original text)