In 2018 and in 2019, we held the Queer University Film Workshop for queer storytellers and filmmakers from African countries to acquire the necessary creative skills to depict the narrative of the lives of queer people living on the continent from an authentic and informed perspective. The one week intensive workshops covered a wide area of training in the use of basic and advanced software for film, appropriate representation, human rights abuses and persons living with disabilities.
As a climax to the year’s Queer University Film Workshop in 2019, we held Ghana’s first ever Queer Film Festival (QuFF), reprising it in 2022 and 2024, in the face of a surge of homophobia in Ghana following the introduction of the Proper Sexual Human Rights and Ghanian Family Values Bill.
Our next edition is in 2026.