Restored Senegalese Film reels

Oct 2nd | 5:30pm | penn museum room 345

​The event includes a film preservation workshop and panel discussion on four recently restored Senegalese newsreels from the 1960s and 70s. We will be joined by Dr. Mamadou Diouf, Professor of African Studies and History at Columbia University and Visiting Professor at Global Studies University of Sharjah (AE), as well as Tiziana Manfredi from Atelier MamiWata and consultant to the Cinematography Department of Senegal.  The workshop and screening are catered towards student, faculty and community members interested in film/photography preservation and restoration, national archiving and storytelling, political histories of Senegal, West Africa and the Caribbean as well as Black arts festivals of the 1960s and 70s. The newsreels will be screened in their original French language with English subtitles.