The opening module defines contemporary African cinema through historical period, method, digital shifts, festivals, platforms, popular industries, diasporas, archives and publics.
Learning goal
Define the contemporary through period, method, criteria, industrial change and plural screen forms.
Completed lessons
0/3
Course
Contemporary African Cinema
Lesson list
Lesson 1
Define the contemporary as a method, not only as a date range.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Define the contemporary as a method, not only as a date range.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 2
Understand how digital production, festivals, platforms and markets reshape African screen ecosystems.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Understand how digital production, festivals, platforms and markets reshape African screen ecosystems.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 3
Map contemporary African cinema as a field of multiple forms and publics.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Map contemporary African cinema as a field of multiple forms and publics.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Open only when you are ready to apply this module. The complete prompts are preserved here.
Prepare a sourced brief connecting one contemporary film, one industry or circulation issue, one formal choice and one audience or access question.
Expected output
A professional contemporary cinema brief ready for Unga Learn, CineMap, Shot Atlas, CineUbuntu or festival programming.
Quiz structure
1 question are prepared to validate the core concepts of this module.
Instructor-provided Formation 09 source material adapted into Unga Learn.