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Masterclass « A story of one’s own: filmmaking as archival, creative and emancipatory work»
Tempo Documentary Films Festival (Sweden). Amandine Gay is a director, actress and Afro-feminist activist. Her first film, Speak Up is a documentary giving voice to black women in France. Amandine Gay divides her time between artistic and academic research. In recent years, she has focused mainly on the topic of international adoption. In 2021, she…
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« Afrofeminism, translation, and remembering bell hooks »
Amandine Gay is a French filmmaker, Afrofeminist activist, and scholar who divides her time between research and creation. She will be talking about her life and career, including the preface she wrote for a French language edition of Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, by bell hooks. Stanford University, Stanford (USA). https://events.stanford.edu/event/afrofeminism_translation_and_remembering_bell_hooks_a_talk_with_filmmaker_and_author_amandine_gay
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« Black Female Voices and Representation Across the Atlantic. »
Round table discussion with Ci’Auna Heard, Amandine Gay and Niema Jordan, moderated by Sakina Hughes. Santa Clara University, Santa Clara (USA). https://www.scu.edu/cas/wgst/news–events/
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Black History Month – Keynote Fireside Chat with Amandine Gay
Black@Celonis Business Resource Group, online event.
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« A Story of One’s Own : adoptees flip the script »
“One’s adoption, many stories” Seminar of the French Adoption Agency, November 8, 2021, IdealCo (France). Discussion around the film “A story of one’s own”.
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Masterclass « Adoptees: voices and images to rethink the family »
INA Monday, National Audiovisual Institute/François Mitterrand Library, Paris (France). Session led by Amandine Gay and translated into French sign language. With the financial support of the Université Paris Lumières. In her latest film A story of One’s Own, Amandine Gay deals with international adoption, anchored in North-South and class relations, and restores the point of…
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« Amandine Gay in Conversation with Sophie Marie Niang »
Modern French Research Seminar. University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK). Invitée par Emma Wilson. On the release of her second film, Une Histoire à Soi (A Story of One’s Own, 2021), Amandine Gay, acclaimed director of Ouvrir la Voix (Speak Up, 2017), will discuss her new work with Sophie Marie Niang. After her afrofeminist testimonial documentary…
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« Welcoming and supporting the experience of adoptees throughout their lives »
Debate around the film “A story of one’s own”. Discussants: Sandrine Dekens and Amandine Gay. International Congress of the European Association of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (AEPEA).
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« Antiracism and Allyship in Europe »
Learn about antiracism and allyship in Europe withn professor Otele and Amandine Gay. Antiracist Week at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Paris (France).
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Masterclass « A Story of One’s Own : filmmaking as archival, creative and emancipatory work »
Les Filministes Festival, Online event, Montreal (Canada). Afro-feminist activist, actress and director Amandine Gay will present her work and thoughts during a virtual masterclass. After her essential documentary Speak Up (2017), which explored the experience of difference as a black woman and the specific clichés associated with it, Amandine Gay continues to explore issues related…