Florence Ayisi

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Florence Ayisi was born in

Academy Award nomination in 2006. She won the UK Film Council Breakthrough Brits Award for Film Talent in 2008.[4][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.[6]

Qualifications

  • Certificate in Higher Education (Cert Ed) (1997) – School of Education, University of Sunderland, U.K.
  • Leeds Metropolitan University
    , U.K.
  • MA in Theatre and Media Production (1989) – University of Hull, U.K[6]
  • Diploma in Television Production and Journalism (1987), Television Training Centre, Fulham Studios, London
  • BA in English (1986) - Faculty of Modern Letters and Social Sciences – University of Yaoundé, Cameroon, Central Africa[4]

Filmography

  • Zanzibar Soccer Dreams (Florence Ayisi & Catalin Brylla, 2016, 64 mins) -
  • Transforming Lives: PNDP and Rural Development in Cameroon (2014, 35 mins)
  • Handing Down Time – Cameroon (2012, 55 mins)
  • Cameroonian Women in Motion (2012, 10 mins)
  • Art of this Place: Women Artists in Cameroon (2011, 40 mins)[4]
  • Zanzibar Soccer Queens (2007/2008, 87 & 52 mins)[4][9]
  • Our World in Zanzibar (2007, 35 mins)[4]
  • My Mother: Isange (2005, 7 minutes)[4][10]
  • Sisters in Law (2005) (Florence Ayisi & Kim Longinotto, 2005, 104 mins)
  • Reflections (2003)[10]

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]

References

  1. ^ "Biography of Florence Ayisi". African Success. 3 June 2008. Archived from the original on 30 November 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  2. ^ "Cannes award for courtroom film". BBC News. 24 May 2005. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Winner 2007 Independent Lens: Sisters in Law". Peabody Awards. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Florence Ayisi". Women Make Movies. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Hollywood embraces Britain's black film talent". The Independent. 10 May 2008. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  6. ^ a b c "Honourees 2008". UK Film Council. 23 February 2012. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  7. ^ "University of South Wales - Florence Ayisil". Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  8. S2CID 144270154
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  9. ISBN 9780857729941
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  10. ^ a b "Independent Lens . SISTERS IN LAW . The Filmmakers | PBS". www.pbs.org. Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  11. ISBN 9780719096716
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  12. doi:10.1386/jac.4.2.191_1
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  13. ISSN 0015-1386
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  14. JSTOR 27761711
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