Friday, October 18, 2013

NILE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014 CALL FOR ENTRY


ABRAHAM- HAILE-BIRU

Colours of the Nile International Film Festival (CNIFF) will take place from 5–9 February 2014 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  The East African festival is calling for submissions from across Africa for feature-length and short fiction films, as well as feature-length and short documentaries. The entry deadline is 15 November 2013.

“The inaugural edition of CNIFF that took place in November 2012 was very successful," ” says Abraham Haile Biru, president of CNIFF and an award-winning African cinematographer. "The overwhelmingly positive response of the African film community and audiences encouraged us to host the festival annually instead of biennially as originally planned."
Film curator June Givanni, who has worked with the British Film Institute, Toronto International Film Festival and Focus Feature's Africa First, is the new festival director, while CNIFF's competition section will be  judged by an international jury consisting of African filmmakers and leading industry professionals.
ANDREW DOSUMU (Last year winner Restless City)

“The theme is Lenses on Africa’s Renaissance,” says Abraham.  "We want to get the message across that cinema is a powerful medium for educating, inspiring, promoting peace, and freedom of expression; all vital for the renaissance of our continent.”  The topic reinforces the theme of the 50th anniversary of the OAU/AU and affirms the AU’s charter for African Cultural Renaissance.
In out-of-competition screenings, CNIFF will spotlight South African films in its Africa Special Section and films from other continents in the World Cinema Corner. Abraham says, “South Africa offers a good example in setting favourable policy and framework conditions for the promotion of cinema. More and more films are coming from South Africa, reaching wider African and international audiences. This is definitely an experience other African countries can take lessons from to revamp their film industries.”


Tuesday, October 1, 2013

October 1: Kunle Afolayan's Nigeria's Independence Crime Thriller




                     

Here is the First Official Trailer of the movie 'October 1'. This is an African story told from African's perspective. Please click 'LIKE' if you think it deserves to fly. Long live Nigeria, Long live Africa, long live the world.

SYNOPSIS
It's September 1960, and with Nigeria on the verge of independence from British colonial rule, a northern Nigerian Police Detective, DAN WAZIRI, is urgently dispatched by the Colonial Government to the trading post town of Akote in the Western Region of Nigeria to solve a series of female murders that have struck horror in the hearts and minds of the local community. On getting to Akote, more murders are committed, and with local tension high and volatile, Waziri has a race on his hands to solve the case before even more local women are killed..
 ~ Kunle Afolayan