Cinelogue is a curated streaming platform and curatorial initiative that centres the cinema from the Global Majority, and their diasporas. Working in collaboration with filmmakers, curators, and cultural partners, Cinelogue brings together under-circulated films and situates them within broader social, political, and historical contexts. Alongside streaming film programs, the platform develops editorial texts, and public conversations that engage with cinema as a space for critical reflection and exchange.
Nii Kwate has over 50 years of filmmaking experience as a writer, producer and director of feature and documentary films. Highlights of his career include: co-producing and directing, with Dr. Kwesi Owusu, Ouaga: African Cinema Now in 1988, a documentary of the biennial Ouagadogou Film Festival; and Ama, the first African feature film to be financed by a major British television network, Channel Four, in 1991. Odupon Atutu, documenting the death, burial and enthronement ceremonies of an Asantehene; Women of Substance, a feature-length documentary on women in leadership, shot in six African countries for the Africa Women’s Development Fund; Nii Kwate founded the Media Research Unit of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana in 1978 and directed it until his retirement in 2004.
Shirley Bruno draws from her Haitian heritage to create modern myths that merge ancestral memory with contemporary experience. Her films explore the porous borders between the physical and metaphysical, the sacred and everyday, tracing how unspoken histories shape generations. Working between France, New York, and Haiti, her work has screened widely at festivals, galleries, and museums, including Zinebi Bilbao, Hamburg, Uppsala, Palais de Tokyo, and the National Gallery London. She is a laureate of the StudioPrix Collector, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts grant. Her recent animation An Excavation of Us premiered at the International Short Film Festival Winterthur, and she is currently developing her first feature with the support of La Cité Internationale des Arts and Le Groupe Ouest’s LIM program.
Shireen Seno is an artist and filmmaker whose work addresses memory, history, and image-making, often in relation to the idea of home. A recipient of the 2018 Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines, she is known for her films which have won awards at Rotterdam, Punto de Vista, Shanghai, Olhar de Cinema, Vladivostok, Jogja-Netpac, and Lima and have screened at New Directors/New Films, Yebisu International Festival of Art & Alternative Visions, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Tate Modern, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Portikus, NTU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore, Taipei National Center for Photography and Images, Museum of the Moving Image, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Seoul, Museum of Contemporary Art & Design Manila, and MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai. Seno was a 2022 Film Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program.
