Friends of Sarah Maldoror and Mario de Andrade
Annouchka de Andrade and Henda Ducados have developed a project to preserve and share Sarah Maldoror and Mario de Andrade’ work. The path of two beings who fought for African independence and cultural emancipation. Crucial to their work are films restoration of films, archiving of documents, correspondences, manuscripts and unknown screenplays etc
The aim of this association is to promote the cinematographic works and thought of Sarah Maldoror and Mario de Andrade.
To perpetuate the works of these two intellectuals, to safeguard, promote, disseminate and encourage research into their memory and thoughts.
The Association avails itself of all means and resources (public or private) to restore and promote the works of Sarah Maldoror and Mario de Andrade, whether filmed or not, published or not, and to manage, catalog, archive and promote the public and private audiovisual, sound and written archives in the form of all documents and media.
It takes part in any cultural activity (free or paying) of its choice, in the organization of meetings, symposia, retrospectives, festivals, events (public or private) enabling their works to be transmitted and promoted internationally.
The voice of the oppressed and of the dissidents, the filmmaker Sarah Maldoror, a pioneer of PanAfrican cinema, passed on April 13, 2020, of complications from coronavirus. Her luminous cinematic oeuvre, including more than 40 films, reveals a valiant fighter, curious about everything, generous, sassy, very caring about others, who crossed all sorts of boundaries with her poetic approach.
None of Mario de Andrade’s writings have yet been officially translated into English. One may read about his work in both the political and literary spheres in the short biographical entry in Donald E. Herdeck’s (ed.) African Authors, published by Black Orpheus press in 1973. The Portuguese version of “Song of Sabalu” translated into English here is published in Presence Africaine (1966).
Origins of African Nationalism – by Mário Pinto de Andrade
Exploring the development and structuring of African nationalist sentiment, the intellectual and sociological foundations of African nationalism, and the origins and social and cultural identities of the participants who helped
Cité internationale des Arts de Paris – exhibition May 16 – July 30
Under the police station of Emilia Goudal and Nataia Petrein-Bachelez. These voices that besieg me…, whose title borrows the words of Assia Djebar, brings together a selection of works, images
Revolution will be a Poetic Act
This book is a collection of essays and speeches by Mário Pinto de Andrade, the Angolan literary critic, cultural theorist and political activist and one of Africa’s most important 20th
November 19 and 20: Marseille
Films Femmes Mediterranée: tribute to Sarah Maldoror
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IDFA: screening of Fogo island of fire by Sarah Maldoror 9 nov – 14h45 au Cinema Tuschinski 5 16 nov – 15 h 15 au Eye cinema 2
Read moreNovember 7 to 11 : Windsor (Canada) and Detroit (Michigan)
Media city Film festival. Screening of And the dogs were quiet by Sarah Maldoror mediacityfilmfestival.com
Read moreThe inauguration on May 2, 2022 of the personal library of Mario de Andrade
The inauguration on May 2, 2022 of the personal library of Mario de Andrade in the National Center of Archives in Luanda (Angola). Both daughters have deposited into the Angolan
Read moreCinema and freedom: the retrospective of Sarah Maldoror’s legacy at IndieLisboa, in Lisbon
Filmmaker Sarah Maldoror raises her voice again, for so many people who remain silent, during our next edition. IndieLisboa – International Film Festival and Cinemateca Portuguesa present her cinematographic work
Read moreRest in Power, Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020)
The Screen Worlds team would like to express our most heartfelt gratitude to the pioneering filmmaker Sarah Maldoror, who passed away in Paris this week from Covid-19 complications. Sarah was
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