The word sankofa comes from the Akan West African saying about going back as a means of moving forward. Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima in conversation with Raafi Rivero, Daniel E. Williams, and Bradford Young, moderated by Ava DuVernay, following a screening of Gerima’s 1993 film Sankofa at the Academy Museum. This program was filmed on October 2, 2021. Full conversation available now on our YouTube: https://acadmu.se/yt-san-hg #AcademyMuseumConversations | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

SANKOFA is not a film about slavery, it's a film about Black resistance. Array partnered with Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima to restore his 1993 film SANKOFA, to tell the untold history of Black resistance. SANKOFA is coming to Netflix September 24 | Strong Black Lead