Copyright 2026, Documentary Educational Resources https://store.der.org/obinyan-aiwan-c1030all.aspx Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:46:28 GMT 60 Nexternal RSS 2.0 en-us https://store.der.org/wax-print-p1058.aspx Product1058 Thu, 28 Oct 2021 13:56:54 GMT <div style="float:left"><a class="url" href="https://store.der.org/wax-print-p1058.aspx"><img src="//cdn.nexternal.com/der/images/wax-print-film-film-thumb.jpg" alt="Wax Print" border="0" hspace="3"></a></div><span class="riRssTitle"><a href="https://store.der.org/wax-print-p1058.aspx">Wax Print</a></span><br><a href="https://store.der.org/wax-print-p1058.aspx">Buy Now:</a> <span color="#990000"><b>$320.00</b></span> <br /><br /><div><div><i>Wax Print</i> traces the vast and multi-stranded global history of a fabric that has become an iconic symbol of Africa and her children worldwide. This beautiful, transnational two-year journey has taken director Aiwan Obinyan around the world, in search of African wax prints and the untold story of how wax print fabric came to symbolize a continent, its people, and their struggle for freedom.</div><div><br /></div><div>The film brings forth issues of fast fashion and mass-produced wax print copies, while detailing an Indonesian, English, and Dutch history of the fabric itself and its significance for pan-African identities. As seen in Batik and Kente techniques, bright bold patterns and colors become a significant part of the culture, as well as the identities of the African diaspora that have kept the heritage alive. With names like “The Ungrateful Husband,” which is worn by women to shame their disloyal husbands, each wax print has a pattern and identity embodied in the cloth, and an origin story that is then accepted and integrated into the culture by consumers.</div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><i>“Obinyan’s enthusiasm for wax print and her excitement at being witness to the process of its making are infectious. [The film] makes poignant observations about counterfeiting and cultural identity… [and] ultimately ties the fabric’s identity to the black experience itself.”</i></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">– Debbie Onuoha, Humboldt University, Berlin</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></blockquote><div><b>Selected Screenings &amp; Awards</b></div><div><div>Bradford Literature Festival, UK, 2018</div><div>Pan African Film Festival, USA, 2019</div><div>Africa in Motion, UK, 2019</div><div>12°N 61°W Grenadian Film Festival, 2019</div><div>Women of the Lens, UK, 2019</div><div>African Film Festival New Zealand, 2019</div><div>AFRIFF, Nigeria, 2019</div><div>Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), Nigeria, 2019</div><div>San Francisco Black Film Festival, 2019</div><div>Wax Print Festival, Ghana, 2019</div><div>Berkshire Museum, USA, 2019</div><div>Tubman African American Film Festival, USA, 2019</div><div>BlackStar Film Festival, USA, 2019</div><div>Black History Studies Film Festival, UK, 2019</div><div>CinemAfrica Film Festival, Sweden, 2020</div><div>Utrecht Centraal Museum: Voices of Fashion Exhibition, Netherlands, 2021</div></div><br /><br />Visit <a href="https://store.der.org/obinyan-aiwan-c1030all.aspx">Obinyan, Aiwan</a> to see additional products in this category.</div>