Founder/Executive Director of the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), Chioma Ude, has announced that Lagos will once again wear the tourism ambiance, playing host to filmmakers and actors from around the world, with over 100 films showing at the newly opened Filmhouse-IMAX and Genesis Cinemas, both in Lekki.
Ms Ude spoke last week while announcing the festival programmes at the Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.
AFRIFF is returning for its sixth year of cinematic celebration with an impressive line-up of movie premieres, film screenings, industry sessions, master classes and other festival programmes from November 13 to 20, 2016.
Some of the movies that have been selected to be showcased include 93 Days (Nigeria) by Steve Gukas, The CEO (Nigeria) by Kunle Afolayan, Vaya (South Africa) by Akin Omotoso, The Cursed Ones (UK) by Nana Obiri, The Wedding Ring (Niger) by Rahmatou Keita, Kati Kati (Kenya) by Mbithi Masya, If Tomorrow Never Comes (Ghana) by Pascal Amanfo and The Arbitration (Nigeria) by Niyi Akinmolayan.
According to the AFRIFF boss, Nate Parker’s Oscar hopeful, The Birth of a Nation and Izu Ojukwu’s celebrated film on the first Nigerian military coup, ’76 will be the opening and closing films respectively.
In addition to the wide range of films, the festival, according to Ude, will also offer industry platforms for skill acquisition, financing, pitching, symposia on alternative revenue streams and piracy.
Ude pronounced that “Amongst our shorts programmes are films made by young people, selected from last year’s training and talent development programmes.”
