Filmmaker Tunde Kelani could not hold back his joy on Thursday as he announced that his movie Ayinla has won the Best African Narrative Feature Award at the 2022 Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) in Los Angeles, USA.
Tunde shared the good news in an Instagram post, congratulating everyone who contributed to the success of the movie.
“ÀYÌǸLÁ wins Progranner’s Best African Narrative Award PAFF Los Angeles 2022. Congratulations to our talents crew, executive producers, producers, and our rep. team in Los Angeles and Pakistan.
Thanks and God’s blessings. TK ÀYÌǸLÁ coming soon on NETFLIX,” he wrote.
Fellow celebrities and fans congratulated him in the comment section of the post.
The movie by Kelani came 40 years after Ayinla was fatally stabbed with a glass cup during a pub brawl on May 6, 1980, in Ago Ika, Abeokuta.
Kelani seeks to answer the questions “Who is Ayinla Omowura? Why is his music still relevant after his tragic death 40 years ago? And what is the root that nurtured his craft and music?”
