June Givanni is a Guyanese-born London-based film curator. She has specialized in African-related movies since 1985, and has worked internationally as a film and television programme consultant and writer."June Givanni"
Southplanet. She is also a member of the

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jury.

Background

June Ingrid Givanni was born in

Georgetown, Guyana Georgetown is the capital (political), capital and largest city of Guyana. It is situated in Demerara-Mahaica, region 4, on the Atlantic Ocean coast, at the mouth of the Demerara River. It is nicknamed the "Garden City of the Caribbean." It is t ...

, and grew up in the UK.Suman Bhuchar,
"Givanni, June Ingrid"
in Alison Donnell, ''Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture'', Routledge, 2002, p. 127. She was co-ordinator of the

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's Third Eye Film Festival in 1983, and during the 1980s was active in working for the creation of specialist distribution circuits for the work of black and Third World filmmakers. At the

British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, ...

(BFI) she created and was responsible for managing the African Caribbean Unit, and she compiled the first comprehensive directory of black and Asian films in the UK, as well as starting with Gaylene Gould the BFI's ''Black Film Bulletin'' (1993–96). Givanni has worked with various international film festivals programming African and African diaspora films as a guest curator, including at the Sao Paulo Short Film Festival in Brazil, the Kerala International Film Festival in India, Images Caraibes in

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, Creteil Film Festival, in Paris. Givanni has served on film juries at African film festivals such as

FESPACO The Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou or FESPACO) is a film festival in Burkina Faso, held biennially in Ouagadougou, where the organization is based. It ...

(from 1985), Zanzibar Festival of the Dhow Countries, the All Africa Film Awards in South Africa, the JCCarthage and others. Her publications include the edited volumes ''Remote Control: Dilemmas of Black Intervention in British Film and TV'' (1996) and ''Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema: Audiences, Theory and the Moving Image'' (2001). She runs the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (JGPACA) in London, a personal collection of films, ephemera, manuscripts, publications, audio, photography, posters documenting pan-African cinema, in residence at MayDay Rooms (as of 2017). In 2018 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by

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."June Givanni Speech - Graduation 2018"
SOAS University of London, 2 August 2018. YouTube video.

Selected published works

* ''Black/Asian film & video list'' (BFI Education 1988) * ''Remote Control: Dilemmas of Black Intervention in British Film and TV'' (BFI Publishing, 1996; * ''Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema: Audiences, Theory and the Moving Image'' (BFI, 2001;

References

External links

Official website
June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (JGPACA) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Givanni, June Film curators Living people Guyanese emigrants to the United Kingdom People from Georgetown, Guyana Year of birth missing (living people) Black British cinema British archivists