The African Movie Festival in Manitoba (AM-FM) is a non-profit organization devoted to African themes and issues, especially as they relate to Manitoba, Canada and the world. The Festival will showcase African talents and will generate social, political and economic issues for discourse, and of course, provide entertainment value. Full details available at www.am-fm.ca
Sheila Petty is professor of media studies at the University of Regina. She has written extensively on issues of cultural representation, identity and nation in African and African diasporic screen media, and has curated film, television and digital media exhibitions for galleries across Canada. She is author of Contact Zones: Memory, Origin and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema, (Wayne State University Press, 2008). She is co-editor of the Directory of World Cinema: Africa (Intellect Books, 2015). Her current research focuses on transvergent African cinemas, new Maghrebi cinemas and interpretive strategies for analyzing digital creative cultural practices.
