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MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA AND BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA PRESENT

AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM CLUB AT MOAD | CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE

Please note the special start time of 12pm (PDT) to accommodate the filmmaker's time zone.

‍Join us for our monthly series, The African Diaspora Film Club. Modeled after our African Book Club, we will meet once a month to discuss a film that we have all viewed in advance of the discussion. The conversation will be moderated by Cornelius Moore, co-director of California Newsreel and film series curator at MoAD.

We will be choosing a selection of films, some previously screened at MoAD. You may have already seen it, or this may be your first introduction. In either case, join us for a lively discussion of the film.

This month we will be discussing CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE (2018, Rosine Mbakam, 75 mins). You will receive instructions to join via zoom after you sign up here. Look for an email from MoAD after you sign up, if you don’t receive it in your inbox, look in your spam or junk mail. Watch a trailer for the film here.

We will not be screening the film. You can watch CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE in advance  preceding the conversation here.

Director Rosine Mbakam will join us for the discussion.

CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE Sabine was born and raised in Cameroon. Her migration journey began in her country where she was recruited by a Lebanese maid agency. After many years of suffering, she moved to Belgium. Right after her arrival she started to work as hairdresser in a salon.

Sabine is a charismatic, larger-than-life personality crammed into a tiny shop in the immigrant Brussels district of Matonge. Here, she and her employees style extensions and glue on lashes while sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants and talking about life back home in Cameroon. 

Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam grew up in Cameroon in a traditional family. She chose Cinema very early and was trained in Yaoundé, Cameroon with the team of the Italian NGO COE (Centro Orientamento Educativo) where she learned directing, editing and production beginning 2000. She collaborated and directed several films before joining the team of Spectrum television in 2003, where she directed and edited several audiovisual programs.

In 2007 she left Cameroon and enrolled in Brussels for a training course at INSAS. In 2014 with Geoffroy Cernaix, she founded Tandor Productions and directed "The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman," her first documentary released in 2017.  She is currently working on several projects.

Resources to look more deeply into issues raised in CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE here.

This event is a collaboration with POV, PBS’ award-winning nonfiction film series:  https://www.pbs.org/pov/.

‍The African Diaspora Film Club is presented in partnership with Black Public Media

‍Black Public Media (BPM), formerly known as National Black Programming Consortium develops, produces, funds, and distributes media content about the African American and global Black experience. Our mission is to commit to a fully realized expression of democracy and we accomplish this by supporting diverse voices through training, education, and investment in visionary content makers.For 40 years, BPM has addressed the needs of unserved and underserved audiences. BPM continues to address historical, contemporary, and systemic challenges that traditionally impede the development and distribution of black stories.

Funding has been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.