Publications

Sendra, Estrella and Steedman, Robin (forthcoming July 2025). ‘Chapter 6: From Africa to London to the world: Film Africa’s leading role in the circulation of African cinemas’. In (forthcoming 2025) African Film Festivals and Transnational Flows of Living Cultural Heritage, edited by Sheila Petty. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031885891

Feal, Laura and Sendra, Estrella (forthcoming July 2025). ‘Chapter 3: Curating Africa in Contemporary Film Festivals in Senegal: An Analysis of the Constellation of Collaborations’ in (forthcoming July 2025) African Film Festivals and Transnational Flows of Living Cultural Heritage, edited by Sheila Petty. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031885891

Petty, Sheila and Sendra, Estrella (forthcoming July 2025). ‘Chapter 8: “Act in Your Location, Think with the World”: Constructing Audience “Afterlives” at Three North American-based African Film Festivals’. In (forthcoming July 2025) African Film Festivals and Transnational Flows of Living Cultural Heritage, edited by Sheila Petty. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031885891

Johnson, Rachel (2024). ‘Decolonising Through Co-Curation? Women Creators of the Future, Festival Films Femmes Afrique and Leeds International Film Festival’. In Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, Special Issue 28 ‘Moving Beyond the (De)colonial Container, edited by Estrella Sendra and Sheila Petty: 11-23. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.28.01

Petty, Sheila and Sendra, Estrella (2024). ‘Decolonising film festival research.‘

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