Annabelle Aventurin was born in 1991 in France. She is a film archivist responsible for preserving and distributing Med Hondo’s archives at Ciné-Archives in Paris. In 2021, she coordinated the restoration of Hondo’s films West Indies (1979) and Sarraounia (1986) with the Harvard Film Archive. She is also a film programmer. In 2022, she completed her first documentary, a medium-length film titled The King is Not My Cousin, which has been screened at over 50 festivals.
In 2017, author Elzéa Foule Aventurin engaged in a series of interviews with her granddaughter. Together, they retrace, not without mischief, a family history sailing from one end of the Black Atlantic to the other. A story of silence, pride and revolt.
In 2017, author Elzéa Foule Aventurin engaged in a series of interviews with her granddaughter. Together, they retrace, not without mischief, a family history sailing from one end of the Black Atlantic to the other. A story of silence, pride and revolt.