A journey through the archive of BAFTA award-winning curator and film programmer, June Givanni. It contains thousands of films from across Africa, the Caribbean and the diaspora amassed in over forty years. Using four film festivals as her touchstones, author Onyeka Igwe offers a way to encounter Pan-African film. The book starts with Third Eye, the film festival that propelled June into a career in Pan-African cinema. Through connections she made there, she travelled to FESPACO in 1985. Participating in the festival while Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso was under the leadership of revolutionary Thomas Sankara was a formative experience. In Ouagadougou she connected with film programmers Suzy Landau and Claire Andrade Watkins, who would take steps to organise Images Caraibes, Fort de France, Martinique, 1988, and Celebration of Black Cinema, Boston, US. Using original oral history research with June and other key figures in Pan-African and Black British cinema, Onyeka uncovers the important
