Sankofa Film and Video Collective was founded in 1983 by Isaac Julien, Martina Attille,[1] Maureen Blackwood,[2] Nadine Marsh-Edwards[3] and Robert Crusz, who all graduated from various art colleges in London.[4] Supported by the Greater London Council, the British Film Institute and Channel 4, among others, Sankofa was "dedicated to developing an independent black film culture in the areas of production, exhibition and audience".[5] The name and the logo of the collective derive from the Akan word sankofa from Ghana, meaning "return and fetch it", represented figuratively as a bird turning its head back towards its tail, to signify "going back into the past and discovering knowledge that will be of benefit to the people in the future."[2]
^Andrea D. Barnwell, "Attille, Martina", in Alison Donnell (ed.), Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture, Routledge, 2002, pp. 21-22.
^ abCarol Brennan, "Blackwood, Maureen 1960–", Contemporary Black Biography. 2003. Encyclopedia.com; accessed 22 February 2015.
^"Nadine Marsh-Edwards", BFI, Film Forever.
^Ann Ogidi, "Sankofa Film and Video", BFI Screenonline.
^Annette Kuhn, "Julien, Isaac (1960-)", BFI Screenonline.
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