Professor Ayisi wins awards on the international film festival circuit

Congratulations to Co-POWeR's Florence Ayisi whose documentary film The Bronze Men of Cameroon has achieved great success in 2021 film festivals.

• Winner: Best International Documentary at the International Black Diaspora Film Festival (IBDFF), Toronto, Canada - June 2021.
• Winner: Grand Prize at the 2021 West African Film Festival, Houston, Texas, USA - March 2021.
• Nomination: Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 2021 Madrid International Film Festival, Spain – June 2021.

The Bronze Men of Cameroon is an intimate portrait of a community of bronze artisans in Foumban, the ‘City of Arts’ in the Western Region of Cameroon. This film presents bronze craftsmen at work and offers rare insights into their expertise in producing unique bronze sculptures which are inscribed with symbolic images and narratives of collective memory, heritage and identity. The film is also about threats to cultural continuity and the challenges of maintaining indigenous practices as global trends impact on traditional art forms.

Further details about the documentary film.