African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

Michael T. Martin is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the Media School at Indiana University Bloomington. He is editor or coeditor of several anthologies, including (with David C. Wall) The Politics and Poetics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man and Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Martin directed and coproduced the award-winning feature documentary on Nicaragua, In the Absence of Peace, distributed by Third World Newsreel. Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré is a film director, producer, and screenwriter and the former director of the Centre National du Cinéma in Burkina Faso.

Dedication
Acknowledgments
African Cinema and the Diasporic: Introductory Considerations, by Michael T. Martin and Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré
Part I: Africa
1958 Declaration and Resolutions of the Conference of Independent African States
1968 Manifesto of New Cinema in Egypt
1969 Pan-African Cultural Manifesto, Algiers, Algeria
1969 Resolution on Inter-African Cultural Festival
1970 Proposed Establishment of an All-African Cinema Union
1970s Regulations of the Carthage Film Festival
1972 Resolution on the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou
1974 Workshop Resolutions: Seminar on "The Role of the African Filmmaker in Rousing an Awareness of Black Civilization"
1975 The Algiers Charter on African Cinema
1975 The Accra Declaration on Cultural Policies
1976 Cultural Charter of Africa
1977 Cinematographic Art (FESTAC 77)
1977 Resolution of Commendation and Appreciation to the Federal Republic of Nigeria
1980 Regulations of the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO)
1982 Niamey Manifesto of African Filmmakers
1984 Final Communique, African Regional Film Workshop
1986 The Language Plan of Action for Africa
1987 Resolutions on the Development of Film and Endogenous and non-Endogenous Cultural Industries
1989 First International Day of Partnership (FEPACI)
1989 An Outlook on FEPACI
1990 Final Communique of the First Frontline Film Festival and Workshop
1991 Statement by the African Women Professionals of Cinema, Television, and Video
1991 The Status of the Audiovisual Sector in Africa
1991 Declaration of Windhoek
1992 African Audio-Visual Industries: Prospects and Strategies
1992 Cultural Industries for Development in Africa: Dakar Plan of Action
1995 Resolution on the Celebration of the Centenary of Film Invention
2001 African Charter on Broadcasting
2002 Accra Declaration on Public Service Broadcasting in West Africa
2002 Declaration of Principle on Freedom of Expression in Africa
2006 African Film Summit
2009 FEPACI Master Report: Selections
2010 Queer African Manifesto/Declaration
2010 Manifesto: Conference of African Women Filmmakers
2010 Sollywood: A Movement
2010 Communique from the "Sustaining the New Wave of Pan-Africanism" Workshop
2011 The WEMF V Accra Declaration
2013 African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedom
2013 Declaration at the Second African Women in Film Forum
2016 The African Editors Forum (TAEF): Declaration on World Media Freedom Day
2016 African Media Initiative
2016 Sisters Working in Film and Television (SWIFT)
2017 Manifesto of Ouagadougou, FESPACO 25th Edition
2017 The Surreal16 Collective Manifesto White Paper
2018 African Cinema Day: One Africa, One Cinema Project
2003 & 2019 The African Audiovisual and Cinema Commission (AACC): Decision on the Establishment of an AACC (2003), Draft Statute of the AACC (2019)
Part II: Black Diaspora
1920 Declaration of the Rights of Negro Peoples of the World
1945 Selections from the Declarations and Resolutions of the Fifth Pan-African Congress
1956 First Congress of Negro Writers and Artists
1958 Appeal: The Unity and Responsibilities of African Negro Culture
1959 Second Congress of Negro Writers and Artists
1965 An Esthetic of Hunger
1969 Black Manifesto
1970 Towards a Third Cinema
1972 Manifesto of the Palestinian Cinema Group
1973 Resolutions of the Third World Filmmakers Meeting
1974 The Resolution on Culture, Sixth Pan-African Congress
1974 Final Resolutions: International Conference for a New Cinema
1983 Black Independent Filmmaking: A Statement by the Black Audio Film Collective
1983 Symposium Declaration: Third Eye – Struggle for Black & Third World Cinema
1983 NAMEDIA Declaration
1986 Inauguration of the San Antonio de Los Baños International School of Cinema and Television
1990 FeCAVIP Manifesto
1990 Audiovisual Market Caught Between the Chances in the North and South-South Cooperation
1991 Special Broadcasting Service Charter
1992 Caribbean Film and Video Federation: A Report
1993 Working Group: Women in Cinema, Television, and Video Workshop
1994 Resolution of the Seventh Pan-African Congress
1995 Pan-African Union of Women of the Moving Image (UPAFI)
1999 Dogma Feijoada
1999 Tunis Declaration for the Defense of National Cinemas
2003 Dakar Declaration on the Promotion of ACP Cultures and Cultural Industries
2003 National Cultural Policy of Jamaica: Towards Jamaica the Cultural Superstate
2003 Towards a Protocol for Filmmakers Working with Indigenous Content and Indigenous Communities
2004 Poor Cinema Manifesto
2005 Principles of Kaupapa Māori
2006 Santo Domingo Resolution From the 2nd Meeting of the ACP Ministers of Culture
2008 Jollywood Manifesto
2009 Brussels Declaration by Artists and Cultural Professionals and EntrepreneursAnnex to the Brussels Declaration: The Cinema and Audiovisual Sector as a Factor of Development (2009)
2009 Afrosurreal Manifesto: Black is the New black—A 21st-Century Manifesto
2011-14 ABCD CINEMA: Filmmakers of Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, and their Diasporas
: Final Declaration of the First Meeting of ABCD CINEMA (2011)
: Final Declaration of the Second Meeting of ABCD CINEMA (2012)
: Final Declaration of the Third Meeting of ABCD CINEMA (2013
: Cameras of Diversity (2012-2014)
2012 The Association for the Advancement of Cinematic Creative Maladjustment: A Manifesto
2012 Forty Years of Cinema by Women of Africa
2013 Tela Preta Manifesto
2013 Trinidad and Tobago Declaration on Developing the Caribbean Film Industry
2013 The New Negress Film Society
2015 Resolutions of the Eighth Pan-African Congress
2016 "Black Is" and That's the Beauty of It: Ten Propositions Concerning the Visible and the Visual, in Consideration of Black Cinema and Black Visual Culture
2016 Report on the Launch of the African Women Filmmakers Hub
2016 Cinema Pasifika: Developing the narrative film and television sector in the Pacific Island region
2017 Pan-African Alliance of Screenwriters and Filmmakers (APASER)
2018 More Shamans, less intolerance! An Indigenous Manifesto at Berlin Film Festival
2018 Kia Manawanui: Kaupapa Māori Film Theoretical Framework
2019 Reclaiming Black Film and Media Studies
2021 The New Normal: A Manifesto to Create a Safe Space, Free of Racism, for the Black Artist