Filmmaker. writer. Archivist
Anita Afonu
All About Anita
Anita is a part of the new generation of African artists creatively reckoning with their nations’ pasts in order to understand the political and social realities of the present
Anita Afonu is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience in directing and producing films that explore the hidden histories and everyday lives of people in West Africa. She earned her bachelor's degree in Film and Television Production from the National Film and Television Institute, NAFTI in 2010.
Anita has a deep interest in Ghana’s film archives and passionately advocates for its repatriation.
She loves to travel, read and spend time with her dog, Whiskey. She also accepts the title of ‘Gym Rat’.
Anita has produced and directed work for the Culturescapes, Newmont Mining Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, the MacArthur Foundation and the British Academy.
She is a highly sought-after documentary filmmaker and has served as a jury member at the Sunny Side of the Doc Film Market for the Global Issues Pitch, The Panel on Decolonizing African Film Archives and has served as a co-convener of the Visions of Life Symposium at the University of Oxford.
Anita has spoken at numerous events which include The Kwame Nkrumah Intellectual Conference, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Sustainability Exchange, the International Association of Audiovisual and Sound Archives (IASA) Conference, The Goethe Institute-Ghana and the African Women in Film Conference.
She is an alumna of The Berlinale Talent Campus, the Durban Talent Campus and the Moving Africa Program. Her work has screened at FESPACO, Eugene Film Festival, Herb Alpert School of Music (UCLA), University of Michigan, the Visions of Life Symposium at the University of Oxford, CinemAmbiente Film Festival, Dak’Art Biennale and the British Academy Summer Showcase.
Anita is part of a new generation of African artists who are creatively reckoning with their nations’ pasts in order to understand the political and social realities of the present. Apart from filmmaking, she has a deep interest in the film archives of her country, Ghana and has passionately advocated for the repatriation of Ghana’s Film Archives.
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co-convener of the Visions of Life Symposium at the University of Oxford.
jury member at the Sunny Side of the Doc Film Market for the Global Issues Pitch,
Documentary filmmaker, producer and director
Get in touch
Phone
(+233 261 581 190)
Email
alutaanita@gmail.com