ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Danny Glover (USA),
Committee President, actor, producer, (LOUVERTURE FILMS).

Linus Abraham (Ghana)
Rector of National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI)

John Akomfrah (Ghana/UK),
Producer and Director, British Film Institute and BBC

Jhaman Anikulapo (Nigeria),
journalist (The Guardian on Sunday, Lagos), film critic.

Kwaw Ansah (Ghana),
film producer/director and founder of the private television station “TV Africa”.

Kofi Awoonor (Ghana),
former ambassador, former Managing Director, Ghana Film Industry Corporation.

Mbye Cham (Gambia),
film scholar and author (Howard University).

Jean-Paul Colleyn (Belgium),
anthropologist and professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Ben Diogaye Beye (Senegal),
film producer and director, journalist, critic and short story writer.

June Givanni (Guyana/UK),
film curator and historian (London).

Mable Hadock (USA),
film programmer and curator, ex-officio NBPC.

Jacquie Jones (USA),
Executive Director, The National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC).

Chris Kabwato (Zimbabwe),
Head of the Highway Africa Project at Rhodes University.

Lesley Lokko (Ghana),
architect and novelist.

Bridget Pickering (Namibia),
filmmaker and practitioner.

Abderrahmane Sissako (Mali/Mauritania),
filmmaker.

Cheick Oumar Sissoko,
former Minister of Culture in Mali, filmmaker.

Esi Sutherland (Ghana),
former Deputy Minister of Education & Culture, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Ghana.

Clyde Taylor (USA),
film scholar and author (New York University).