Amandine Gay

Filmography

Ouvrir la voix 
Documentaire, 122 min, français, 2017

Ouvrir la voix est un documentaire sur les femmes noires issues de l’histoire coloniale européenne en Afrique et aux Antilles. Le film est centré sur l’expérience de la différence en tant que femme noire et des clichés spécifiques liés à ces deux dimensions indissociables de notre identité “femme” et “noire”. Il y est notamment question des intersections de discriminations, d’art, de la pluralité de nos parcours de vies et de la nécessité de se réapproprier la narration. Thèmes: femmes, religion, société, enfant-famille

Prix du public, RIDM 2017
Mention spéciale du jury lors du Festival international de films documentaires de la Martinique
Out d’or de la création artistique
Distribution: Bras de Fer / Eye Steel Film
Diffusion: Étonnants Voyageurs, Festival de Douarnenez, Kansai Queer Festival, RIDM

BIOGRAPHY

Amandine GAY is a filmmaker, afrofeminist activist, and scholar who divides her time between research and creation. According to her, reclaiming the narrative is an act of emancipation.
Following Speak Up – her first feature-length documentary on European Black francophone women released in French, Belgian and Swiss theaters in 2017 and Canadian theaters in 2018, she is now preparing a second documentary, A Story of One’s Own. This second feature will be released in theaters in 2020. A Story of One’s Own is an archival film on transnational adoption from the perspective of 5 adult adoptees.
Amandine Gay regularly appears as a speaker on Afrofeminism, intersectionality or adoption. In 2015, she authored the preface of the first French translation of bell hooks’ seminal, Ain’t I A Woman. She is also a writer in several collective works: Black Anthology: Adult Adoptees Claim Their Space; Éloge des mauvaises herbes: ce que nous devons à la ZAD or Décolonisons les Arts !
In 2020, she signed with La Découverte editions, for the publication of her first book, an autobiographical essay on adoption.
You can follow her in French and English as @OrpheoNegra

AREAS OF ACTIVITY

• Documentary

USEFUL REFERENCES AND LINKS

Site du film Ouvrir la voix