Maureen Gosling
Bio:
Filmmaker Maureen Gosling and cultural anthropologist Maxine Downs have come together to produce BAMAKO CHIC. Gosling, a documentary filmmaker for 38 years, directed BLOSSOMS OF FIRE, a feature-length tribute to the entrepreneurial Zapotec women of southern Oaxaca, Mexico, which was broadcast on HBO Latino and five other international television channels. Among many other credits, she was a co-filmmaker with acclaimed documentarian Les Blank for twenty years on twenty films, including BURDEN OF DREAMS (British Academy Award). Downs holds a doctorate degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Florida at Gainesville and has been working and traveling to West Africa for almost twenty years. Her research interests include international development, poverty, women’s networks and women’s health issues. While working on her PhD dissertation on the Malian cloth dyers, Downs was so moved by their creativity and resourcefulness, she felt the best medium to express it was film.
Location:
Oakland, CA
Films by this Filmmaker
 | Bamako Chic: Threads of Power, Color and Culture
3rd place in Empowerment | 05:11
"Bamako Chic: Threads of Power, Color and Culture," a one hour documentary, tells the story of women from Bamako, Mali, whose artistic creativity became a force for alleviating poverty and affirming identity in West Africa. In the 1960s, a small group of impoverished and resourceful Malian women cloth dyers reinvigorated the craft of hand-dyed cloth using a fabric called bazin (imported polished c. ... More |
