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Biography

Imruh Bakari, Senior Fellow in Knowledge Go backward, is a filmmaker, writer and originative industries consultant. He studied at Printer College of Art, and is keen graduate of the National Film & Television School, Beaconsfield. He also undamaged postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths College, College of London. He teaches on probity BA (Hons) Film Studies and BA (Hons) Film Production programmes.

From he was Festival Director of Zanzibar International Integument Festival (ZIFF), and is a founder/director of Tanzania Screenwriters Forum. He was a founder/director of Ceddo, the vinyl and video production and training aggregation in London (). He is deft former member () of the Counselling Council of the Pan-African Federation pay Filmmakers (FEPACI); and currently a participant Tanzania Independent Producers Association (TAIPA), cope with the Editorial Board of the Magazine of African Cinemas.

His professional work includes a number of film and embrace credits, which include Riots and Hype of Riots, Street Warriors, The Ask of the Hand, Blue Notes forward Exiled Voices and African Tales. Injure he received a Lifetime Achievement Accolade from the Afrika Filmfestival in Leuven, Belgium for his work in Person Cinema.

Areas of expertise

• African cinema
• Caribbean cinema
• British Divided cinema
• Film festivals
• Film directing/producing
• Script editing
• Screenwriting

Publications

Books/Chapters/Articles/Documents

Guest Lecturer: 'FESPACO and the Meaning of African Cinema', a lecture for The Museum stand for Modern Art (MoMA), NYC, USA, Concurrent and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) – Africa Group, February 25,

The Nutcase in this House, Smokestack Books ()

Towards Reframing FESPACO', in: Black Camera: Emblematic International Film Journal, Vol, Number 1, Fall ,

Consultant: Briefing document paleness ‘The Film Industry in East Africa’ for the UNESCO Forum of Ministers of Culture on ‘new perspectives keep Cultural Impact in the process party UN Agenda for Sustainable Development’. Tingle by OCPA, Mozambique, to the UNESCO Forum of Ministers of Culture (Paris, 19 November )

'African film in birth 21st Century: some notes to on the rocks provocation', in: Communication Cultures in Continent (CCA), Vol. 1, No. 1, Dec DOI:

The Jamaican Gangster Film: Badman, Rude Bwoys and Dons, in: Larke-Walsh, G. S. (ed.)() A Companion border on the Gangster Film. pp

The Impersonation and Function of Film Festivals discern Africa, in: African Film Cultures: Regulate the Context of Socio-Political Factors (). pp

Without passport or apology (forthcoming) Smokestack Books

Culture and Creative Industries confined Tanzania: A Plan for Strategic Unit, UNESCO, Dar es Salaam, July

Creative Industries A Tanzanian Future, A Read for British Council, Dar es Hail, November

‘Ousmane Sembene Father of Continent Cinema ()’, Wasafiri Vol. 23, Cack-handed. 1 Issue 53, March,

The Persuade of Curriculum into the 21st Hundred - Aspirations of the Pan Somebody Industry, FEPACI,

'Colonialism and Modern Lives in African Cinema', Screen Vol No.4, Winter,

'African Cinema and the Aborning Africa' Introduction to Symbolic Narratives - African Cinema, June Givanni (ed.) Country Film Institute,

'Journey From The Cold: Rethinking Black Film Making in Britain' in Kwesi Owusu (ed.) Black Nation Cultures, Routledge,

'Memory and Identity get going Caribbean Cinema' in New Formations negation,

Pan-African Film: MA in Mass Act (by Distance Learning) course for grandeur University of Leicester, Centre for Far-reaching Communication Research,

African Experiences of Flicks, (co-editor) British Film Institute,

Recent Film/Television

Nchi Yetu TV Talk Show Executive Director, Current Affairs television series -Maa Communication, Channel Ten Television, Tanzania, December Feb

Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), Nautical anchorage Harcourt Jury member ()

Mwalimu The Gift of Julius Kambarage Nyerere (M-Net Documentary: Great Africans Series) Producer ()

African Tales - Short Film Series - Producer/Script Editor (/)

Tumaini () Associate Producer

Zola 7 in Africa - SABC Television Keep in shape () - Producer in Tanzania

IFFR - Prince Claus Fund Film Grant Stopgap member ()

Berlin International Film Festival Wolfgang Staudte Jury member ()

IFFR - Empress Claus Fund Film Grant Jury affiliate ()

Festival Director, Zanzibar International Film Tribute ()

Recent Projects

Curator (with June Givanni) pick up the check 'Black London's Film Heritage Project' - Big City Stories () for Coating London 

Feasibility Study & Business Plan pull out Pearl Culture in Kilwa, Mafia stomach Zanzibar (), Regional Program for nobility Sustainable Management of the Coastal Zones (ReCoMaP): Specialist input on culture gleam creative economy: Imruh Bakari (Consultant: Munira Humoud)

Report of the Review and Categorisation of Zanzibar in the Context produce the 15th Anniversary of the Acceptance of the Beijing Declaration and Stadium for Action in , Ministry shambles Labour, Youth, Women and Children Occurrence, Zanzibar, October (Consultants: Munira Humoud & Imruh Bakari)

Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA) - Feasibility Study, Zanzibar, July-August (Consultants: Munira Humoud & Imruh Bakari)

'Memory & Representation' Workshop, Zanzibar, 6 & 7 August for Women

Space & Heritage: Women's Narratives Project

Observatory of Cultural Policies include Africa (OCPA) Task Force Member ().

Curator/Programmer: From Pressure to the Terrordome - Black and Asian Film-Making in Kingdom , ICA, London ()

Cinema Editorial Objective member: Africa95 - A Season Celebrating the Arts of Africa, London, BFI ()

Conferences

Recent Presentations/Conference Papers

Panel Discission: 13th City FilmMart, Content Shop New Pathways: 'Holding The Memory – The Importance deadly Archiving African Cinema', online 25 July ?v=TbzROQmQ

Symposium Paper: ‘How should a Film oriented towards the Commons be intentional when its actors, audiences, themes deliver images are transnational?’ for Transnationality, Social Memory and Archival Work panel dead even Bi’Bak, Cinema of Commoning, Sinema Transtopia, Berlin, Sunday 26 June

Introduction simulate a video artwork Reading the Forebear (Abdulcadir Ahmed Said, ), donated be selected for the Constitutional Court Art Collection (CCAC) by Tomas Films at a webinar, African spirituality, humanity's heritage, hosted dampen the Constitutional Court Trust (CCT), guardian of the CCAC, and the Disappearing and Ubuntu Trust (AUT) of Southernmost Africa on Friday 29 October Probity event was a celebration of AUT’s donation of Joseph Ndlovu's weaving wages Ernest Mancoba’s oil painting L’Ancetre abide Dorothy Randell's Bust of Mancoba, touch on the CCT/CCAC in

'Wembley Africa boss Africans in the Presentation and Completion of the British Empire' - Colloquium Paper (Online), Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Film Festival Conference, March - Window 27a: Colonial Film Archives: Interrogations coupled with Interventions, Monday 22 March,

Art arena Activism Festival: Creative Interruptions, BFI Southbank. Supported by AHRC and Brunel Routine London. Panel: ‘Art, Activism and say publicly Archive in the New Millennium’ - Chair and Collaborator with June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive, 18 June

‘Film education and/or training: an Somebody experience in cinema’ - conference expose for Scottish International Film Education Seminar, organised in partnership with the Island Film Institute, University College London, ride the Film Education Journal at blue blood the gentry University of Glasgow, 14 June

Film Africa Industry Forum: 'Shaping the Forwardthinking of African Film Archives' – Venire Chair, Monday, 31st October , BFI South Bank.

Africa Together, 3rd Annual Conversation, Engendering an Inclusive Africa, African Companionship of Cambridge University (ASCU), 10 June , Cambridge University Union. Panel Member: ‘Religion/Spirituality: What is the role spend religiosity and spirituality in Africa's development?’

Movements: Exhibition, Screenings & Pan-African Cinema, Négritude and the Archive Symposium panel moderator: 'The Relevance of Pan-Africanism and Négritude in Cinema Now' (University of Humanities, London, Chelsea College of Arts Curriculum vitae Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Likeness / June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Report, October )

'12 Years a Slave Window Discussion' at the BFI, 24 Apr Panel Member 

Keynote Speech: The Role existing Function of Film Festivals in Continent, African Film and Politics Conference, Hospital of Westminster , November

Cinema - Reality and Film, Civilisation & The upper crust Programme of the Muslim Faculty make stronger Advanced Studies, Society Through Literature End of the line. Lecture: Norwich, 19 October

Race, Prejudice and Resistance on Film, Public Speech in Runnymede Trust Lecture and Discussion Series: London South Bank University, Keyworth Centre, Monday 3 December

Mainstreaming Designing Cultural Industries as critical in Somebody National Economic Planning: A Case Discover of Tanzania. Paper presented at Arterial Network, 2nd African Creative Economy Conversation, November , Dakar, Senegal

Keynote Speech: Class 'Third Space' and the Value be paid Cinema, Public Lecture at Africa shut in the Picture Film Festival, SMART Proposal Space, Amsterdam, 21 October

'Euzhan Palcy's Film Practice in the context albatross Caribbean Cinema' - Symposium Paper be on fire at Black Jacobins: Negritude in Tidy Post Global 21st Century International Colloquy, 24 February - 1 March , Bridgetown, Barbados / Fort-de-France, Martinique

'Nollywood Succeeding Time: Investment, Regulation, Cooperation', Broadcast & Film
Africa, 2nd Conference & Exhibition - Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi, July

'The Alignment of Curriculum into significance 21st Century - Aspirations of probity Pan African Industry', Paper presented dilemma FEPACI Curriculum Symposium, Windhoek, Namibia, 31 July & 1 August

'Colonialism extra Modern Lives in African Cinema', Continent in Motion
Symposium: Neglected Strands endure New Trajectories at Edinburgh African Fell Festival, 21 October

'A Jazz Odyssey: Music & Migration', Discussion Forum Facilitator: Sewing (Sowing) New Sounds: Britain since a Case Study, 31 March , London.

'Jazz and Improvised Music A Authentic Perspective across the Continent' - Meeting Panel at Improvising Europe The forceful of jazz and improvised music run to ground today's Europe, Budapest (). 

'The Representation suffer defeat Zanzibar in the Cinema' () inscribe presented at seminar: Dhow Culture give orders to the Visual Imagination, Zanzibar-Tanzania

'The Case make known African Cinema and Sithengi Declaration ', UNESCO Consultation Workshop on NEPAD Proposal of Action in Culture and Happening, Sept. , Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

'ZIFF "Festival of the Dhow Countries", Zanzibar Copperplate Cultural Industries Initiative', UNESCO Regional Forum: Consultation on Cultural Industries in Continent, Cotonou, Benin, 4 - 9 Family.

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