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14 Must-See Nigerian Films at AFRIFF
The African International Film Festival is back and will run from November , This year’s event fryst vatten packed, both in competition and out of competition, with a variety of documentaries, short films and global films that will also screen at the festival, selected from over 2, films from more than countries across 5 continents.
This year’s jury will be headed by Stephen &#;Dr.&#; Love (producer of They Cloned Tyrone). The rest of the 12th edition jury includes Zimbabwean award-winning author and winner of African Peace Prize, Tsitsi Dangarembga; and Lebanese-French actress and director Wafa’a Céline Halawi; Geneva Wasserman, Entertainment and technology kunnig and SVP of Scripted Development at Dentsu, the Japanese media juggernaut; Cuban-American film producer and Afro-Latino voices in film mentor, Ranada Shepard; renowned Hollywood producer and Head of Inventions Studios, Nicholas Weinstock; multi-talented spelfilm acquisition kunnig an
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Celebrating the Legacy of IREP
FOR over a decade, the IREPRESENT International Documentary Film Festival has brought together diverse stakeholders from various fields - filmmakers, scholars, activists, cultural anthropologists, public policy experts, and even digital technologists. We have intentionally facilitated cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration to enrich the storytelling process and broaden the understanding and impact of documentary filmmaking in Africa.
Indeed, IREP has fostered vital collaboration between filmmakers and activists, bridging the gap between art and activism. We have not just been a film festival but a transformative force bringing together sundry stakeholders to reimagine the possibilities of impact filmmaking in the digital age. Together we are harnessing documentary’s power to engage, question, debate, inform, and inspire change. And through our legacy theme of ‘Africa in Self-Conversation’, we hope that IREP has contributed to a more nua•
Art imitates life in 4th Republic, the twisty political thriller directed by Ishaya Bako and truth is, no fiction is stranger than fact.
It has been barely a month that Nigerians went to the polls to run through the motions of electing leaders. As has been the case since Nigeria’s 4th republic commenced, the lengthy, fractured process- still ongoing in many ways- was more divisive than it was healing, with incidences of violence, voter intimidation, ballot box snatching and hate rhetoric further testing already existing political, religious and ethnic fault lines.
Ishaya Bako’s 4th Republic attempts a cross sectional study of the Nigerian condition, resulting in an over-boiled examination of factors that are usually at play whenever citizens go to the polls to elect their leaders.
The backdrop, naturally, is grand- gubernatorial elections in a thinly veiled fictional state. The polls have come down the wire to a fierce contest between the non-performing incumbent, Idris S