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UK curator of African film to receive Bafta award
June Givanni founded London archive documenting Pan-African cinema over 40 years
June Givanni is the founder of a London archive that has amassed more than 10,000 items – including films, ephemera, manuscripts, audio, photography and posters – documenting Pan-African cinema over 40 years. Previous recipients have included Derek Jarman, Ken Loach, Elizabeth Karlsen, Tessa Ross, Ridley Scott and Curzon Cinemas. “I had come from a society where people are quite ambitious, they encourage you, to one where I was put in a class with children two years my junior because they believed I came from a country where you don’t know how to read or write.
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