Florence Ayisi Explained

Florence Ayisi was born in Kumba in Cameroon on 22 July 1962[1]). She is an academic and filmmaker. Her film Sisters in Law won more than 27 awards (including the Prix Art et Essai at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005[2] and a Peabody Award[3])[4] [5] and was short-listed for an Academy Award nomination in 2006. She won the UK Film Council Breakthrough Brits Award for Film Talent in 2008.[6] Since 2000 she has taught film at the University of South Wales.[7] [8]

Ayisi founded the production company Iris Films in 2005. In 2007 she was recognised with a meeting with the Queen for her work's link with Commonwealth countries.

Qualifications

Filmography

Reception

Marsha Meskimmon and Dorothy C. Rowe write that "Ayisi's nuanced portraits of the lives of contemporary African women reject simplistic stereotypes and suggest that gender politics in a global world may not divide easily along the lines of nation-states, 'East' and 'West', or 'developed' and ‘developing'."[11] In a 2012 article Olivier Jean TchOuaffé said "Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi, in their film Sister-in-Law, stand out for the originality with which they portray the figure of the judge within a post-colonial context of insecurity, as they highlight two strong women as the faces of security and judicial stability" p196.[12] Another review describes the film as "a well-crafted, focused film that really says something about a small, manageable aspect of another culture and the people who shape it."[13] A review in Black Camera describes Sisters in law as "a film that universalises experience without co-opting it."[14]

Further reading

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biography of Florence Ayisi. African Success. 3 June 2008. 19 Feb 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20181130155058/http://www.africansuccess.org/visuFiche.php?lang=en&id=571. 30 November 2018. dead.
  2. Web site: Cannes award for courtroom film. 24 May 2005. BBC News. 2017-03-02.
  3. News: Winner 2007 Independent Lens: Sisters in Law. Peabody Awards. 2017-03-07. en.
  4. Web site: Florence Ayisi. Women Make Movies. 2017-03-07.
  5. News: Hollywood embraces Britain's black film talent. 2008-05-10. The Independent. 2017-03-07. en-GB.
  6. Web site: Honourees 2008. 2012-02-23. UK Film Council. https://web.archive.org/web/20120223143732/http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/breakthroughbrits#Florence. 23 February 2012. 2017-03-07.
  7. Web site: University of South Wales - Florence Ayisil. 19 Feb 2017.
  8. White. Patricia. 2006-01-01. Cinema Solidarity: The Documentary Practice of Kim Longinotto. 4137156. Cinema Journal. 46. 1. 120–128. 10.1353/cj.2007.0008. 144270154 .
  9. Book: Mayer, Sophie. Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema. 2015-10-22. I.B.Tauris. 9780857729941. en.
  10. Web site: Independent Lens . SISTERS IN LAW . The Filmmakers PBS. www.pbs.org. 2017-03-07. 2020-12-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20201204083144/https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/sistersinlaw/filmmakers.html. dead.
  11. Book: Marsha . Meskimmon. Dorothy C. . Rowe . Women, the Arts and Globalization. Editorial. 10. 2012. 9780719096716. Manchester University Press.
  12. Tchouaffé. Olivier Jean. 2012. Women in Film in Cameroon: Thérèse Sita-Bella, Florence Ayisi, Oswalde Lewat and Josephine Ndagnou. Journal of African Cinemas. 4. 2. 191–206. 10.1386/jac.4.2.191_1.
  13. Malkowski. Jennifer. 2007-06-01. Reel Paradise / Sisters in Law. Film Quarterly. en. 60. 4. 30–34. 10.1525/fq.2007.60.4.30. 0015-1386.
  14. Maher. Jennifer. Moorman. Marissa. Spring 2008. A Black Camera Movie Review: Sisters in Law by Florence Ayisi; Kim Longinotto. 27761711. Black Camera. 22/23. 120–122.

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