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Annouchka de Andrade is currently orchestrating her parents legacy – The Association “Sarah Maldoror and Mario de Andrade”. With over 30 years of experience, Annouchka has worked in international cultural cooperation with a strong focus on audio-visuals, cultural heritage and production in France, Spain, Columbia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru and Equator. She has provided technical assistance to Sarah Maldoror in the last 20 years.
Henda Ducados is currently the Head of Institutional Relations for Total in Angola. With 25 years of experience, Henda has worked in social development programs in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau. Advocated on gender issues and women’s economic emancipation in post-conflict development in Angola. Is the author of articles on gender issues in Angola and female headed households in particular.
Both sisters have developed a project to preserve and share Sarah Maldoror and Mario de Andrade’ work. The path of two individuals 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 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 center of archives almost 2000 books gathered by their father all along his life. This personal library aims to respond to the will of our
Sight and Sound article
IN MEMORIAM – SARAH MALDOROR Though her name remains unfamiliar to most, the Frenchborn filmmaker’s work is central to postcolonial African cinema. By Sukhdev Sandhu It was only in her late Sos that Sarah Maldoror, who died in April at the age of 90 from coronavirus-related complications, began to attract the sustained attention of contemporary
Read moreWoman With a Weapon-Camera – The New Inquiry
Woman With a Weapon-Camera On the work of Sarah Maldoror By YASMINA PRICE – AUGUST 27, 2020 SARAH Maldoror was a voice for history. I borrow this phrase from Euzhan Palcy, a Black woman filmmaker, like Maldoror, who demanded an autonomous place behind the camera. Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History (1994) is Palcy’s magnificent three-part film on her
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 the first woman of colour to direct a feature film in Africa and became respectfully known as the Matriarch of African Cinema. After working as
Read moreSambizanga au St-André des Arts / 11 juin 2023
The restored copy of the film SAMBIZANGA by Sarah Maldoror will be screened on Sunday june 11 at 6PM theater St André des Arts 30 rue St André des arts 75006 Paris This projection is helded by the Creteil Women Film festival and be presented by Annouchka de Andrade More info : FIFF x CIP // 45
Read more35 Biennale of Sao Paulo : Choregraphy of the impossible
The filmmaker Sarah Maldoror is invited by the curators. An occasion to present films and unpublished documents for the first time to the public. September 4 to december 10, 2023
Read moreLuanda – Exposition Sarah Maldoror : Cinema Tricontinental
After passing through the Palais de Tokyo, in Paris, and Torreão Nascente of Cordoaria Nacional in Lisbon, the exhibition “Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema” that arrived in Luanda proposes and offers a wandering through a landscape – in fact, here, a landscape of films – mixing animated images, documents, correspondence, photographs and poetry. A space will
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