PAUL WALKER :Gone too soon

The US Hollywood actor Paul Walker who starred in the Fast & The Furious movies series passed away in a car accident few hours ago in California.

Gone Too Soon.  R.I.P 

PETER AND LOLA DESERVE EACH OTHER

PETER AND LOLA

Why so much ado about the marriage between Peter and Lola. I believe that they deserve each other, after first and second kid what next. Do you advice the young man to dump the wife and two kids and start a second home. Age is just a number just let them be and support them by praying for their home. In my own opinion  I think Peter will be happier with Lola than marrying an Ibo girl.

NOLLYWOOD GO TO WORK: make films for “A class” Award

For those who feel is 20 or 37 or 60......or Nollywood is Igbo, Yoruba or Hausa ? These are not the issues because some have so trivialized the nollywood phenomenon by their deep sited shear ignorance claiming to be historians when they know nothing about the history the motion picture industry in nigeria. Some have ascribed the father of Nigerian cinema to Hurbert Ogunde when in actual fact young Turks then like Ola Balogun, Eddie Ugbomah, Ade Afolayan had made films before Ogunde's film in 1980. So I wonder when I see people making an issue over Nollywood when this so called 'local champions' whose films have not made it to any A Class film festival or Award (Cannes, berlinanale, Toronto, sundance, Venice, oscar) are claiming to be champions. To me them no different from Asaba producers. Go play in the global arena and stop chasing shadows because that was the mistake of the Ogunde's in 1987 when they want to stop Alade aromires EKUN video film from screening at the theater but today what do we have videos screening at theaters and they were chasing shadows. So stop ethnic jingoism and make films that will go global and compete internationally because even Fespaco, these clowns who travel globally on d name of nollywood have not won an award because I see them at festivals moving around without direction as their so call "great films" in Naija is below international standard. They can counter me because sadly since 1903 when the first malaria documentary was made in jos by the colonial film unit and 1904 when glover hall lagos screened the first film....no Nigerian film from Nollywood at 110, 70, 50, or 20 or even 37 has won any of the "A class"award I mentioned. So make Una go work Jare and stop bringing tribalism to an industry that is owned by all Nigerians irrespective of your tribe or color. Shikena

....By Fidelis Duker

KUMAR RAJ, DIRECTOR OF BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER FILM “TARA “IN NIGERIA

                                Kumar Raj ,  Mrs Bukola Agbaminoja, Hope Obioma Opara

The 4th edition of the annual Eko International Film Festival got a boost from Indian films submitted for the forthcoming event which will start from 18-23 November, 2013 in Lagos Nigeria. Mr. Kumar Raj, the Producer/Director of Bollywood blockbuster film TARA visited the President/CEO of Eko International Film Festival in Nigeria.

He also paid a courtesy visit with the President of Eko International Film Festival Mr. Hope Opara to the Lagos State Government’s Head of Film Office, Mrs. Bukola  Agbaminoja  at her office in Ikeja. She was very excited to meet with the director /producer of TARA and the prospects of Indian films in the Lagos based global film festival.

          

Indian film TARA has been scheduled to be the opening film for the festival.

 "TARA....the journey of love and passion " subtitled in English is about a village girl Tara seems to be content with her confined life, very much in love with her liquor maker husband. But, when the beautiful protagonist’s seemingly mundane existence parts ways to reveal the unspoken realities of exploitation and darkness enveloping the village, she leads the villagers in their quest for survival, only to realize that she is up against something she may not be prepared to fight against prejudice. The young woman who bravely stood up for the whole community finds herself cruelly alienated in her most vulnerable moment.

Ultimately, after a series of gut wrenching experiences, she has to make a choice... Based on disturbingly common realities of Indian villages, this powerful story of self-discovery transcends the original theme of tribal strife to raise a universal question—can you always choose freedom & self-respect over social acceptance?  The journey of the extraordinary woman Tara in very difficult situations reveals the story of love and passion and how she deals with same.

 Eko International Film Festival also attracted another Indian film THE LIGHT and an Oscar nominated documentary DAM 999 which will also be screened during the film festival.

The annual Eko International Film Festival (EKOIFF) is Nigeria’s leading international film festival in the coastal mega city of Lagos in south western Nigeria.

The Festival’s mission is to promote the appreciation of Arts and Culture through the motion picture arts and sciences and boost tourism in Lagos and Nigeria in general.

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.”

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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