The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA) was set up officially in 2013, and is a living archive that preserves and values the history of Black cinema globally. The archive provides a crucial knowledge base to films and filmmakers, linking the pre-digital age through to contemporary achievements. JGPACA is a unique collection of items, objects and components: films and programmes recorded on video and DVD, photographs, audio interviews, posters, scripts, paper documents, books, journals, film and festival publicity materials and memorabilia, which has at its core the interest of PanAfrican cinema and its relationship with Black British cinema and culture. Its PanAfrican focus makes it a key resource for those interested in diaspora histories.
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Dr June Givanni is a BAFTA Award-winning pioneering international film curator who has considerable experience in film and broadcasting for over 30 years and is regarded as a resource for African and African diaspora cinema. The development of the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive is based on her collections from years of working in the field of cinema. Her motivation for the archive is to make this valuable heritage collection as widely accessible as possible. In the early 1980s, June was involved in bringing Third Eye, London’s first Festival of Third World Cinema, to London. She worked as a film programmer at the Greater London Council’s (GLC) Ethnic Minorities Unit, at a key development stage for Black British Independent cinema, and Black British art and culture generally. Givanni ran the African Caribbean Film Unit and edited the quarterly Black Film Bulletin; and the book Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema: Audiences, Theory and the Moving Image at the British Film Institute. She also programmed Planet Africa at the Toronto International Film Festival over four years. She has worked as a film curator with festivals on five continents and has been involved in key moments in the development of Pan African cinema on these continents, and the development of the links between them.
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JGPACA Directors:
Imruh Bakari, Dr June Givanni and
Dr Emma Sandon.

Staff Team:
Phoebe Beckett Chingono (Project Facilitator/Archive Assistant), Damilola Lemomu (Project Curator/Archive Coordinator) and
benjin (Project Facilitator/Archive Assistant).

Patrons:
John Akomfrah, Gaston Kaboré, Euzhan Palcy, Raoul Peck, CCH Pounder and Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey.
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