Decolonising through co-curation? Women creators of the future, Festival Films Femmes Afrique and Leeds International Film Festival

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dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Rachelen
dc.contributor.editorSendra, Estrellaen
dc.contributor.editorPetty, Sheilaen
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-19T09:24:15Z
dc.date.available2025-02-19T09:24:15Z
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dc.description.abstractAmidst calls from Decolonise and Black Lives Matter movements, several film festivals are engaged in the beginnings of a “reorientation,” a shift in their understandings of, and relationships to, colonial power structures. Considering decoloniality as a plural process rather than a singular endpoint, this article examines a recent example of such reorientation: Women Creators of the Future is a programme of films made by women of African heritage, co-curated by Festival Films Femmes Afrique (Senegal) and Leeds International Film Festival (UK). Taking its inspiration from a previous Films Femmes Afrique programme of the same name, this initiative constitutes a meeting of festival “worlds” that tells us much about burgeoning processes of decolonisation in cultural organisations. Combining fieldwork with interviews and self-reflexive analysis, I trace the complex relationships between curation, funding, placemaking and labour that underpinned the collaboration. I argue that this meeting of two contrasting festivals illuminates emerging practices of decolonising through co-curation, yet also invites us to reflect on the need for practices that more fully address both epistemic and economic injustice.en
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dc.identifier.citationJohnson, R. (2025) 'Decolonising through co-curation? Women creators of the future, Festival Films Femmes Afrique and Leeds International Film Festival', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 28, pp. 11–33. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.28.01en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/alpha.28.01en
dc.identifier.endpage33en
dc.identifier.issued28
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage11en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17069
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.ispartofAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue28/HTML/ArticleJohnson.html
dc.rights© 2025, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectFilm festivalsen
dc.subjectDecolonisationen
dc.subjectFeminismen
dc.subjectAfrican cinemaen
dc.subjectCurationen
dc.titleDecolonising through co-curation? Women creators of the future, Festival Films Femmes Afrique and Leeds International Film Festivalen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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