Petna Ndaliko Katondolo

Petna Ndaliko Katondolo (Mwalimu) is an internationally acclaimed Congolese filmmaker, ancestral ecologist, and educator. A pioneer of Soul-full Soil Cinema Ejo-Lobi and the Recoding Aesthetic, his work blends Africafuturist poetics with incisive social critique. In 1994, he co-founded Maideni, an ecological youth movement in Goma. In 2000, he co-founded Yole!Africa (yoleafrica.org), and in 2005 he founded the Ishango Encounter (formerly known as the Salaam Kivu International Film Festival). He is also a co-founder of the Alec Glasser Center for the Power of Music & Social Change. Ndaliko Katondolo teaches and consults regularly for international organizations, deploying art and culture to address social, ecological, and political inequity among marginalized communities.