Please join us for a screening of MAKA (2023), a powerful documentary about Geneviève Makaping — an anthropologist, journalist, and the first Black woman to serve as editor-in-chief of an Italian newspaper.
Thursday, April 9, 2026
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Darren Star Theater, Melnitz Hall
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Film Screening Announcement: MAKA (2023)
Please join us for a screening of MAKA (2023), a powerful documentary about Geneviève Makaping — an anthropologist, journalist, and the first Black woman to serve as editor-in-chief of an Italian newspaper.
Tracing Makaping’s migration from Cameroon across the desert and the Mediterranean Sea to her life in Italy, the film highlights both her personal resilience and her reflections on race, migration, and representation. Through a compelling blend of interviews, archival images, and reflective storytelling, MAKA offers a moving meditation on visibility, identity, and belonging.
Thursday, April 9, 2026
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Darren Star Theater, Melnitz Hall
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with screenwriter Simone Brioni (Stony Brook University).
Sponsored by the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Co-sponsored by the UCLA African Studies Center
Film details:
Italy, 2023, 52 minutes
Italian/English with subtitles
Directed by Elia Moutamid
African Studies Center323-335-9965
africa@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/africa
Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Black Graduate Student Association