All Outputs (23)

Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds (2023)
Book Chapter
Dovey, L., & Sendra Fernandez, E. (2023). Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds. In M. de Valck, & A. Damiens (Eds.), Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After (269-289). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14171-3_14

This chapter is in part a manifesto and in part an engagement with the thinking and practice already re-shaping film festivals in this era of decolonization and Covid-19. We take as a starting point and analyze the provocative docu-fiction film title... Read More about Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds.

Film as Sound Art: Embracing Love through Extra-diegetic Sound in Nadine Labaki’s Caramel (2022)
Journal Article
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2022). Film as Sound Art: Embracing Love through Extra-diegetic Sound in Nadine Labaki’s Caramel. Open Screens, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.16995/os.8013

Teaching film often involves un-learning previously taught histories of cinema to find instead ‘herstories’ (Dovey, 2018) and theirstories of cinema. This video essay constitutes an illustrative example of this practice, showing how Lebanese woman-le... Read More about Film as Sound Art: Embracing Love through Extra-diegetic Sound in Nadine Labaki’s Caramel.

Saint-Louis Blues: From Oral Storytelling to Aural Filmmaking (2021)
Book Chapter
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2021). Saint-Louis Blues: From Oral Storytelling to Aural Filmmaking. In M. Shearer, & J. Lobalzo Wright (Eds.), Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canons (55-70). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501357084.0010

Banlieue Films Festival (BFF): Growing Cinephilia and Filmmaking in Senegal (2021)
Journal Article
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2021). Banlieue Films Festival (BFF): Growing Cinephilia and Filmmaking in Senegal. Aniki (Coimbra), 8(1), 245-272. https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v8n1.734

This article examines small film festivals in the socio-cultural context of Senegal. Through the case study of the Banlieue Films Festival (BFF) in Dakar, founded in 2013 by Abdel Aziz Boye, I analyse the crucial role of festivals in strengthening th... Read More about Banlieue Films Festival (BFF): Growing Cinephilia and Filmmaking in Senegal.

Women and Sexuality in African Cinema (2020)
Book Chapter
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2020). Women and Sexuality in African Cinema. In K. Ross (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc246

Toolkit 5: Senegal on the Screen (2020)
Book Chapter
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2020). Toolkit 5: Senegal on the Screen. In L. Dovey (Ed.), Screen Worlds Toolkits (1-10). Screen Worlds

Sufi Sounds of Senegal (2019)
Journal Article
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2019). Sufi Sounds of Senegal. Critical Muslim, 32, 93-102

Senegalese scholar, writer and musician Felwine Sarr suggests that the African continent is shaped by the ‘delocalisation of its presence in a perpetual future’, that is, a vision of what it will be; an incomplete present. An Afrotopia possible only... Read More about Sufi Sounds of Senegal.

Contemporary Festivals in Senegal: Navigating the Local and the International (2019)
Book Chapter
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2019). Contemporary Festivals in Senegal: Navigating the Local and the International. In S. Ruiz, C. Pearson, & M. Matek Akita (Eds.), Contemporary African Arts: Mapping Perceptions, Insights and UK-Africa Collaborations (32-38). British Council / Royal African Society

Ousmane Sembène’s Cinema (2019)
Journal Article
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2019). Ousmane Sembène’s Cinema. Critical Muslim, 30(1), 73-80

The work of prolific Senegalese writer and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène is strongly linked to the decolonisation and liberation of African countries from the 1960s onwards. The son of a Lébou father – a fisherman from a community originally from the Cap... Read More about Ousmane Sembène’s Cinema.

La Cultura como Seña de Identidad de un Entorno Rural (2019)
Digital Artefact
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2019). La Cultura como Seña de Identidad de un Entorno Rural

50th Anniversary of the Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres: A Comparative Study of the Engagement of the Population in the 1966 and 2010 Festivals (2018)
Journal Article
Sendra Fernandez, E., & Ndour, S. (2018). 50th Anniversary of the Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres: A Comparative Study of the Engagement of the Population in the 1966 and 2010 Festivals. Interventions, 20(7), 965-986. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2018.1487329

Abstract
This essay takes as its starting point two hymns from the First World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966 – one composed by Abdoulaye Ndiaye “Thiosanne” and the other played by saxophonist Bira Guèye and sung by the griot Mada Thiam – in order t... Read More about 50th Anniversary of the Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres: A Comparative Study of the Engagement of the Population in the 1966 and 2010 Festivals.

Displacement and the Quest for Identity in Alain Gomis’s Cinema (2018)
Journal Article
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2018). Displacement and the Quest for Identity in Alain Gomis’s Cinema. Black camera, 9(2), 360-390. https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.9.2.23

Internet y Cultura Digital (2018)
Book Chapter
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2018). Internet y Cultura Digital. In L. Benitez Eyzaguirre, & M. Iglesias Onofrio (Eds.), Innovación Social y Emprendimiento en Túnez: Las Mujeres y el Uso de las Tic en el Desarrollo Local (33-53). Universidad de Cadiz

Film Review: Alain Gomis, dir. Félicité. 2017. 124 minutes. (2018)
Journal Article
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2018). Film Review: Alain Gomis, dir. Félicité. 2017. 124 minutes. African Studies Review, 61(2), 275-276. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2018.33

Situando el cine francófono africano en Colombia: la isla de Gorée en el cine senegalés. (2018)
Book Chapter
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2018). Situando el cine francófono africano en Colombia: la isla de Gorée en el cine senegalés. In M. Giraldo Barreto, & J. A. Rodríguez (Eds.), Muestra Afro (77-99). Cinemateca Distrital – Gerencia de Artes Audiovisuales

Art Festivals in African Cities (2017)
Book Chapter
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2017). Art Festivals in African Cities. In I. Pensa, & M. Pucciarelli (Eds.), Public art in Africa = Art et tranformation urbaines = Art and urban transformation in Douala. Métis Presses

Film Review: 'Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman, directors. Sembène! 2015. 90 minutes.' (2016)
Journal Article
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2016). Film Review: 'Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman, directors. Sembène! 2015. 90 minutes.'. African Studies Review, 59(2), 317-319. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2016.73

Témoignages… “waa Suñu Gaal” (2016)
Digital Artefact
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2016). Témoignages… “waa Suñu Gaal”. [Documentary Film]

Cambridge African Film Festival 2014 and 2015 (2014)
Exhibition / Performance
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2014). Cambridge African Film Festival 2014 and 2015. 1 October 2014. (Unpublished)

Diabel Cissokho: the story of a griot (2014)
Digital Artefact
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2014). Diabel Cissokho: the story of a griot. [Documentary Film]

This is a 38-minute documentary film starring Diabel Cissokho, a Senegalese griot based in London. Diabel is part of a very big important griot family in Senegal, known for their transmission of culture through music. Following a series of concerts i... Read More about Diabel Cissokho: the story of a griot.