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African Cinema Classics

Gywaimen Kassim's passion project, rediscovering the history of African cinema through essays, screenings and conversations. I'm putting together a proposal on how I can support the team and help it scale.

  1. Proposal Now Shaping how I can support the team and help it scale
  2. Decision Agreeing together whether I join, and in what role
  3. Building Putting the systems and partners in place to grow
  4. Scale Taking the work to more audiences and markets
NowProposal

Shaping how I can support the team and help it scale

Why it matters

Much of Africa's early cinema is at risk of being lost, and with it a record of how people saw themselves and their world. African Cinema Classics, the passion project of Gywaimen Kassim, keeps that heritage alive by writing about it, screening it and bringing people together around it.

I see it becoming more than a look back. It could be a pipeline for Africa's cinema classics, old and new: keeping the films that shaped the past in view, while helping the next generation of classics get developed, told and shared with new audiences.

Stories told well are part of how people and places flourish.

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Updates will appear here as this moves forward.