June Givanni

[2] Her publications include the edited volumes Remote Control: Dilemmas of Black Intervention in British Film and TV (1996) and Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema: Audiences, Theory and the Moving Image (2001).

[11] As Maya Jaggi writes in The Financial Times: "PerAnkh, an 'Egyptian term for a place of learning and memory', is how June Givanni sees her personal archive, now one of the world’s most important collections documenting the moving image for the African continent and its diaspora.

Based in central London's MayDay Rooms, dedicated to 'history from below', the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive ranges from rare videos and audio interviews to film and festival posters, screenplays and transcripts, snapshots and stills.

"[12] As Nadia Khomami notes: "The volunteer-run archive is one of the world's most important collections documenting the moving image for the African continent and its diaspora, and includes artefacts that might otherwise not have been preserved.

"[14] Leila Latif stated in The Guardian: "The exhibition forms an alternative history, acknowledging the vitality and ingenuity that are under-appreciated or studiously ignored by so many.