June Givanni

June Givanni is a Guyanese-born London-based film curator. She has specialized in African-related movies since 1985,[1] and has worked internationally as a film and television programme consultant and writer.[2] She is also a member of the Africa Movie Academy Award jury.[3]

Background

June Ingrid Givanni was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and grew up in the UK.[4]

She was co-ordinator of the Greater London Council'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 (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).[5] She 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 Martinique, Creteil Film Festival, in Paris.[4] Givanni has served on film juries at African film festivals such as FESPACO (from 1985), Zanzibar Festival of the Dhow Countries, the All Africa Film Awards in South Africa, the JCCarthage and others.[2]

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,[6] in residence at MayDay Rooms (as of 2017).[7]

In 2018 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by SOAS, University of London.[8][9][10]

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; ISBN 978-0851705378
  • Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema: Audiences, Theory and the Moving Image (BFI, 2001; ISBN 978-0851708553
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References
  1. "Africa First 2012 Profile: Advisor June Givanni On The Program's Role & Expectations". indiewire.com. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  2. "June Givanni", Southplanet.
  3. "Steve Ayorinde, Keith Shiri, John Akomfrah, June Givanni, Shaibu Husseini, Ayoku Babu, others make AMAA 2014 jury". thenet.ng. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  4. Suman Bhuchar, "Givanni, June Ingrid", in Alison Donnell, Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture, Routledge, 2002, p. 127.
  5. "10-24 October 2014: Biography of an archive: The June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive", School of Arts, Birkbeck University of London.
  6. June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (JGPACA) website.
  7. "June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (JGPACA)" at MayDay Rooms.
  8. "SOAS Graduation 2018 honours world-leading figures in field of arts and social activism", SOAS, 31 July 2018.
  9. "Honorary Graduate June Givanni | SOAS Graduation 2018 | SOAS University of London", 14 November 2018.
  10. "June Givanni Speech - Graduation 2018", SOAS University of London, 2 August 2018. YouTube video.

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