This past weekend, people across Africa (and beyond) took part in Sembene Across Africa, an unprecedented community screening of the award-winning documentary film SEMBENE! Grassroots efforts galvanized three days of free public screenings and house parties in 130 venues in 38 nations, plus additional online streaming and network broadcasts in many more. The film, which […]
Though it’s a cliché for a Sundance Film Festival premiere to be called “a labor of love,” never has the term been more apt than with Sembene!, Jason Silverman and Samba Gadjigo’s impassioned biopic of Ousmane Sembène, “the father of African cinema.” Samba Gadjigo is a Senegalese man who credits Sembène’s early writings with helping a teenage Gadjigo find […]
Formerly VP of Digital Media at Tribeca (where she won two Webby Awards), she is currently a Programmer and the Director of Publications for the Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Program Manager for Science on Screen®, a grant program of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation administered by the Coolidge Corner Theatre.
Kristin works seasonally with other film festivals, including the Provincetown International Film Festival and the Key West Film Festival. Past clients include Montclair Film, German Films, the Maui Film Festival, the Naples International Film Festival, and DOC NYC.