The Big Interview: Harry Reeves & Ibrahim Kargbo Jr, Amenno Film

Amenno is a film studio for a new age, founded on uncompromising authenticity. Amenno create bold, independent work and an ecosystem for it to be shared, and experienced in direct connection with audiences.

Let it be known that we love movies. It might be our first love (sorry Kylie). For us, nothing beats sitting in a dark theatre with friends and strangers and experiencing the thrills and spills of the silver screen. Few artforms have such a direct access to the masses - we all watch movies, and yet so few artforms are practiced by so few people. There is some sort of bastardisation of that Churchill quote about The Few that is happening here. Anyway, making films is incredibly difficult - it takes an army. Getting films 'out there' is even more difficult. Don't let the streaming platforms and socials media sites fool you - nothing has been democratised. The hallucinatory algorithms swallow up films, treat them as 'content' and bury them so deeply that any chance of finding that 'hidden gem' or undiscovered voice is practically zero. But there is still a way. There is still great appetite for films to be made, and for films to be screened. There still remains that independent zeal to make and share - to connect with artists to realise the dream, and then to project that onto a screen for a bunch of dreamers to bask in. The true spirit of filmmaking is alive and it's exemplified by Amenno - an independent studio that is not only making their own films, but developing other voices and hosting screenings and events to bring work to new audiences (which we have previously written about here)

In preparation for their next event at the Courthouse Hotel, London on April 16th, we managed to get some time in with Harry Reeves and Ibrahim Kargbo Jr, two of the four founders of Amenno to learn more about their studio, their vision and what it means for the future of film.

But before we get into it, grab your ticket for the event by clicking on the poster, or hitting the button.

Now you've done that, you can sit back now and read this wonderful interview with two of the vanguard of independent filmmaking, safe in the knowledge that you have an evening of beautiful and vital cinema in your diary. So then, let's get into the interview with Harry Reeves and Ibrahim Kargbo Jr, two of the founders of Amenno...