f Introduction

This number of the Journal of African Cinemas continues with its variable entries, full articles, reviews and a report on an arts festival and interview with one of its film festival organizers. These two items reveal the energy, vibrancy and contribution of a smaller, shorter, less well-known film festival event. Tigritudes was held during 2023 at the first established South African film school, then known as the Pretoria Technikon, set up in 1971. The Tigritudes Arts Festival relocates the school’s transformed significance as the Tshwane University of Technology (renamed from 2004) within the contemporary period.