Keith Shire

Jury Member

Keith Shire is an international film curator and programme advisor to the BFI London Film Festival. He has served in that position also for the Venice Film Festival and the Pan African Film & Television Festival, Ouagadougou (FESPACO). He is a Visiting Research Fellow for the Centre for Research & Education in Arts & Media (CREAM), University of Westminster, London. He was a member of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund from 2004-2007. Keith Shire is also the director of Books of Africa, London, and has served as an advisor for the cinema and audiovisual sectors of the EU’s ACP (African, Caribbean & Pacific Countries) programme. He has been on the advisory board of New York’s Focus Features’ Africa First Programme, which supports young African filmmakers. He is on the advisory and programming committee for the Otherfield Documentary Film Festival and a jury advisor for the annual Africa Movie Academy Awards. Shire is dedicated to creating opportunities for African films and filmmakers on the global stage.

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