The Estuaries Of The Future 3 part interview series is a collection of stories from contemporary African and diaspora filmmakers, programmers and video artists whose work or approach is influenced by past legacies of making on the continent.

In this episode, Jesse Mpango has a conversation with Ibee Ndaw

Ibee Ndaw was born in Gambia and graduated from the University Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle (MA in Film Studies) and from University Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne. From 2019-2022, she held the position of Distribution Assistant and later Festival Manager at Sudu Connexion while also running cinema workshops in elementary schools. In 2022, she joined the programming and organizing office of the Seytou Africa, Documentary Film Festival. In 2023, she served as a reader and translator for South African production companies (Big World Cinema, STEPS) and participated in Durban FilmMart where she evaluated feature projects. Additionally, she undertook the coordination of the second Pan-African edition of the Mobile Film Festival Africa held in Morocco. Since September 2023, she is the new coordinator of the Yennenga Centre. Ibee is also a programmer at Durban International Film Festival and an alumni of the Realness Institute.

Tendrils was created by East African curators E.N. Mirembe, Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo and Jesse Gerard Mpango under the Art Exchange: Moving Image program, which is a cross-cultural curatorial professional development and exhibition programme for early to mid-career visual arts curators from Sub-Saharan Africa. The programme is managed by LUX, the UK agency that supports and promotes artists working with the moving image on behalf of the British Council. The Sub-Saharan Africa programme is delivered in partnership with Guest Artists Space Foundation in Nigeria

This episode was produced and edited by Sharon Rwakatungu.

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