Audio

"With June Givanni having recorded most of the conversations in the archive - usually due to her interviewing filmmakers, writers, actors, activists and more - hers is a voice that is often present, which adds further weight to the fact that this is a very personally created archive." (Nana Ocran)
The relatively small collection of audio materials were also collected in the pre-digital era and are on standard audio cassettes. The majority are interviews with filmmakers, (eg. Filmmakers John Akomfrah, Dibril Diop Mambetey in London; actress Rosalind Cash FESPACO Ouagadougou); or presentations (Professor Stuart Hall at Images Caribes Martinique) or conversations (filmmakers Ousemane Sembene and Nii Kwate Owoo in London) and many other situations.

Documents

This collection includes reports, articles, correspondence, presentations and transcripts.

Film & Festival Publicity

These are the materials created to promote specific films, film festivals, film seasons and other events. This collection includes the following, approximately 600 (not including duplicates) of which have been catalogued to date:Publicity postcards, Publicity booklets (eg. about the making of the Nigerian sitcom series, Basi & Company, by writer Ken Saro-Wiwa)*, Press Packs, Programme brochures, Leaflets and Fliers (eg. Programme Leaflet for the Black Film Bulletin's Summer Screen Celebration event showcasing new and forthcoming black films in 1993, including student films - notably Steve Mcqueen's graduation film 'The Bear'), Festival Daily Newsletters, Published Film and Festival Reviews (e.g. The Sunday Observer feature on black culture films 14/11/99)

Film & Festival Reviews

This collection includes reviews by Thulani Davis, Olley Maruma, Manthia Diawara, Linda López McAlister, B Ruby Rich, Beth Coleman and more, for publications such as Cineforum, Variety, The Voice, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Ghanaian News.

Film & Television

The greater part of the films held in the archive are on tape not celluloid and were collected during a pre-digital era. The collection consists of over 700 (VHS/Umatic/Beta) tapes and a large number of dvds (as yet un-quantified). The collection includes predominantly independent films and some television programmes (eg. episodes and trailer for the 1980s Ken Saro-Wiwa Nigerian sitcom series Basi and Company), and a few mainstream commercial films, from the UK, Africa and the African diaspora generally.The films cover all genres: drama, documentary, animation, experimental films: features, shorts and mid-length films and some time-coded works in progress.Most of the films in the archive will be able to be cross-referenced to other related materials in the archive, in due course.

Film Directories

From the pre-digital age, printed directories and thematic pamphlets were provided by distributors and production units, such as the Association des Trois Mondes in Paris who would provide a contextual article and a list of films on a particular theme. (eg. La Palestine Vue Par Son Cinema [Palestine seen through its Cinema] Cannes 2001). In the 1980s and the 1990s there was talk of Black film but no indications of where they were to be found. In response to this June Givanni collated the first Black and Asian Film & Video List in 1988 and the second edition in 1990, both were made available through the BFI. Some resources are especially compiled anniversary lists - such as the 1987 Third World Newsreel's Twentieth Anniversary Issue of their Programme Guide concerning Films from 1967.53 Lists have been catalogued to date.

Film Scripts & Transcripts

This collection includes scripts and film dialogue transcripts and project proposals totaling 140 catalogued items so far. These will not be online and will be available for consultation by appointment, after specific individual clearances from the copyright holders concerned. The manuscripts are in English or in French and come from across Africa and the African Diaspora.

Film Stills

This collection has a variety of production, on set and film stills from titles including Welcome II the Terrordome, Hyenas, Pressure, and Mortu Nega.

Memorabilia

Film and Festival Memorabilia are yet to be catalogued and will include a selection of significant:
Festival Bulletins/Garments/Tags/Festival Bags/Calendars and Stationery etc.

Photos

"There are hundreds of still images - in fact quite possibly thousands - of shots that have been captured by June Givanni and others. Since so many are still in the cataloguing process, it's hard to quantify them, but in terms of their style and context, they include portraits, photographic records of gatherings, film production stills, as well as snapshots, from many of the images that span film festivals and film-related events in uk and international locations"- Nana Ocran (Founder of People's Stories Project).
The photographs vary in quality and style usually determined by their purpose and the conditions in which they were taken. They feature black and white and colour photos, and a small selection of slides. Again many were taken in the era before digital photography, but this in itself can add to the visual aesthetic appeal of some of the photographic material. Some of the photos were taken personally, capturing moments among and featuring filmmakers and colleagues and other personalities, have become historically significant with the passage of time.

Posters

"Of the series of specific collections within the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (JGPACA), the posters with their cinematically visual or historic character, hold a broad palette of stories within them. These posters do not exclusively present films: many also represent international film festivals, cultural programmes and events." (Nana Остап).
The posters (150+ catalogued to date) cover a geographical source and representation of the 5 main regions or sub-regions featured in the archive: Africa, The Caribbean, North America, Europe, the UK. They are a mix of glossy commercial and more subtle art house creations as well as specially commissioned posters, publicizing films for the most part but also other events.There are collections within the poster collection, notably the vibrant Cuban silk-screen, posters featuring posters from the 'golden age of Cuban poster design 1964-1970s; or the FESPACO collection featuring the themes of the festival over the years; the collections of reproduced African and Arab posters from the Milan African Film Festival; or some of the films posters from the UK Black Film Workshops.(The Archive also has a collection of - mainly UK- black art and culture posters covering the same period)

Publications

The publications catalogued so far are at 400 plus and counting (not taking into account duplicates).
The collection includes significant journals such as the Black Film Review (USA); and the Black Film Bulletin* (UK); Ecran D'Afriques/African Screens (FEPACI/Italy), and The Black Filmmaker (bfm: UK) which represent significant sources for information about black films and filmmakers in the 1980s and 1990s many of which are no longer available.
The collection also non-film black art and culture magazines which feature films and filmmakers such as the large format 'Revue Noir'.
They have been catalogued in the following formats:
• Books (eg. including the short books on which the Ken Saro-Wiwa Nigerian sitcom series 'Basi & Company' were based - or which he published to promote the TV series)
• Brochures (eg. Association of Black Film Workshops)
• Booklets Correspondence
• Magazines/ Newspapers
• Journals/ Pamphlets / Reports