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Imruh Bakari
Imruh Bakari is a filmmaker, writer and creative industries consultant. He studied at Bradford College of Art and is a graduate of the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield. He also completed postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He teaches on the BA (Hons) Film Studies and BA (Hons) Film and Screenwriting programmes. From 1999 to 2004, he was festival director of Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) and is a founder/director of Tanzania Screenwriters Forum. He was a founder/director of Ceddo, the film and video production and training organization in London (1982–93). He is a former member (2012–15) of the Advisory Council of the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI) and the Editorial Board of the Journal of African Cinemas; and currently a director of the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA). His professional work includes a number of film and television credits, which include Riots and Rumours of Riots, Street Warriors, The Mark of the Hand, Blue Notes and Exiled Voices and African Tales. In 2013, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Afrika Filmfestival in Leuven, Belgium, for his work in African cinema.
Contact: Department of School of Media and Film, University of Winchester, Sparkford Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 4NR, UK.