Curating with PanAfrican Cinema Archives

The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA) and Cinema Africa! at Hyde Park Picture House are working together to deliver an eight-week traineeship with bursary opportunity in Pan-African Film and Archive Curation for three people between September and November 2025 in Leeds.

In conjunction with the Building a PanAfrican Screen Heritage programme, this collaborative training programme, developed by the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive and Cinema Africa! at Hyde Park Picture House, offers participants a unique opportunity to explore film curation through the lens of a globally significant Black-led archive.

This is an opportunity to learn all about PanAfrican cinema, how to curate a film event and how to work with archives.

Created with the support of the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding National Lottery funding.

Participants will:

• Deepen their understanding of film curation through structured training and archival exploration.
• Engage critically with materials from JGPACA, considering curatorial responsibility, diasporic memory, and the politics of representation.
• Respond to the learning from films, objects, themes, and ideas on the course and archive, by creating a reflective output (writing, video etc), and curate a film screening event.
• Join an online, peer-led curatorial conversation, positioning their reflections within a wider network of archival dialogue and collective learning with the JGPACA Lead Curators.
• Be encouraged to consider how their engagement with the materials and histories of PanAfrican cinema might be extended, as part of a long-term relationship with JGPACA, Cinema Africa, and/or curatorial practice.

Each trainee will be allocated a bursary of £784, inclusive of tax. There are no travel or other expenses included, but trainees will be provided with learning resources. Trainees can apply to the BFI Individual Skills Fund for travel and other expenses.

For full information about the training opportunity see here: https://hpph.co.uk/journal/curating-with-panafrican-cinema-archives

To apply, please sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2BPvo4Imn6_rf8YMQtTaLlgxeyAulQUTKgGa-WqILXvROrA/viewform

If you have any questions, please email mosa@hpph.co.uk

Deadline to apply is Sunday 24 August 2025. 

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