Mosa Mpetha
Based in Leeds, and from Liverpool & South Africa, Mosa Mpetha is a film programmer of Black, African and Archive films in a freelance capacity and in a permanent role as Creative Engagement Officer at her local heritage cinema, Hyde Park Picture House. There, Mosa curates a new permanent strand of African films called ‘Cinema Africa!’ for African and Non-African audiences, addressing the unreasonable lack of African films being shown on the big screen in the UK.
Prior to working at the Hyde Park Picture House, Mosa co-founded Black Cinema Project, an evolving space to bring people together with care, to meaningfully watch and discuss Black films and the landscape they are situated within. She and her colleague Samra Mayanja felt the need to engage deeper and further into Black and African film in order to help make sense of themselves and their place in the world. This project has expanded and last year they toured a five-film programme ‘Women’s Stories from the Global South (& to Whom They Belong)’ funded by the BFI to cinemas and festivals nationally in conjunction with Cinema Rediscovered film festival.
Mosa also works locally in Leeds for Scalarama Film Festival, and she founded the Leeds Film Network which supports individuals and community groups to programme their own screenings in DIY spaces. Mosa is particularly passionate about archive film and has recently published a personal journal from a research trip on African Film Archives in South Africa, Burkina Faso, France and the UK.
Please see her website for more information www.mosampetha.com