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This chapter focuses on three African film festivals/programs located in Canada and Mexico. Beginning with an examination of the longest-running African film festival in Canada—Vues d’Afrique—in Montreal, the chapter also explores a relatively new festival in Winnipeg—African Movie Festival in Manitoba, and finally a very recent initiative in Mexico to bring African films to Afro-Mexican communities. The chapter explores selected “afterlife” events of the festivals that are organized to build year-round sustained audience bases and community impact through Bill Reid’s notion of artworks (festivals) as “lives” and the community dialogues and events surrounding the works as “afterlives”. We envision festival afterlives, not in the sense of negative residue of colonialism or slavery, nor as legacy activity, but more as a relationship between filmmakers, audiences, and films, that is paramount to building communities and social networks off-screen in local communities and throughout the diaspora.

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“Act in Your Location, Think with the World”: Constructing Audience “Afterlives” at Three North American-Based African Film Festivals

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    2025年

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  • Sheila Petty,
  • Estrella Sendra

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This chapter focuses on three African film festivals/programs located in Canada and Mexico. Beginning with an examination of the longest-running African film festival in Canada—Vues d’Afrique—in Montreal, the chapter also explores a relatively new festival in Winnipeg—African Movie Festival in Manitoba, and finally a very recent initiative in Mexico to bring African films to Afro-Mexican communities. The chapter explores selected “afterlife” events of the festivals that are organized to build year-round sustained audience bases and community impact through Bill Reid’s notion of artworks (festivals) as “lives” and the community dialogues and events surrounding the works as “afterlives”. We envision festival afterlives, not in the sense of negative residue of colonialism or slavery, nor as legacy activity, but more as a relationship between filmmakers, audiences, and films, that is paramount to building communities and social networks off-screen in local communities and throughout the diaspora.