Major outputs include the co-edited volumes ‘Contemporary African Screen Worlds’ (Duke UP, 2025) and ‘Global Screen Worlds’ (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025). We held major dissemination events for these volumes at the 2024 African Studies Association of the UK conference and the 2025 British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies conference. Both volumes were developed through decolonial research methodologies and a caring, collaborative culture. We made seven audiovisual outputs: five films (‘Dreaming is Serious Work’ [dir. Levin, UK/South Africa], ‘Cine-Addis’ [dir. Thomas, Ethiopia/UK], ‘Behind my Nollywood Screen’ [dir. Agina, Nigeria/UK], ‘Out of the Box’ [dir. Dovey, Kenya/UK], and ‘From One Woman to Another’ [dir. Dovey, South Africa/UK]), and two video essays (‘Reverie’ [dir. Levin, with Palesa Shongwe, UK/South Africa] and ‘From Hindu to Habesha’ [dir. Thomas, with Sonal Kantaria, UK]). Five of these outputs can be accessed on our website since they have already had their festival/competition run; two of them are still being submitted to festivals/journals. The quality of our audiovisual outputs has been validated by the film festival and university screenings, nominations, awards, and media coverage they have gained in different parts of the world (see Awards section for nominations and prizes our films have won, and especially ‘Reverie’). Further highlights are: ‘Behind My Nollywood Screen’ premiered at the 2022 iREPRESENT International Documentary Film Festival in Lagos; ‘From One Woman to Another’ premiered at the 2023 ARIFF film festival in Johannesburg; ‘Out of the Box’ received £20,000 from the SOAS impact fund to hold the Nairobi premiere, where the screening was widely covered by the Kenyan news media (television and print); ‘Out of the Box’ had a California tour, including at Stanford University and in Hollywood; ‘Cine-Addis’ was invited to the University of Oxford and was selected for the 2024 Kingston International Film Festival, where it was a finalist for the Eadweard Muybridge Prize. Dr Agina organised the workshop ‘Decolonising Film and Screen Studies in Nigeria’ at the University of Lagos (16-18 March 2020), bringing together eminent and early career film professors from across Nigeria and beyond. Dr Thomas organised a pioneering Ethiopian film retrospective in Addis Ababa (29 March to 3 April 2021), bringing together 2,000 people, including filmmakers, policy-makers, government officials and the general public; it attracted widespread media attention in Ethiopia and led to a second edition in February 2023 alongside a major workshop on decolonising film studies at Addis Ababa University at which the PI and SR also taught African and Japanese cinema to students and filmmakers. We launched our website soon after the beginning of the project and we used it throughout to share calls for participation, resources, and our research with film scholars, filmmakers, and the general public. We stimulated academic, industry, and public conversations around African and other marginalised “screen worlds” through more than 50 curated in-person and/or online events (information about these can be found on the Announcements and Film Events sections of our website). We also published multilingual, multi-media work on decolonising film on our Screen Worlds website; produced ten decolonising film teaching toolkits which are likely to be referenced in a REF2029 impact case study about AFRISCREENWORLDS; and presented at dozens of university conferences, workshops, and film festivals around the world (the PI has given 12 invited keynotes).
