The fourth edition of The Life House’s Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival, its longest-running edition yet, will run from Friday, September 26 to Nigeria’s Independence Day.
And one of the productions that will be screened at the festival, most appropriately is the movie October 1 by multiple award-winning actor and director, Kunle Afolayan.
Organisers say “Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival 2014, which spills into the October 1st holiday, is an opportunity for us to relax and recover some of our histories. With films like Oya, the Rise of the Orisha (2014), Africa’s first superhero movie named for the Yoruba warrior goddess and The Supreme Price (2014), a documentary on Nigeria’s pro-democracy movement, we want to encourage our audience to reconsider our past with new eyes.”
Curated around the theme LEGACY, Nigeria’s only festival dedicated to independent African film boasts, this year alone, more than 30 movies from over 20 countries. They will all be screened at the Federal Palace Hotel, an establishment steeped in a history as old as independent Nigeria itself.
The 2014 edition also stands out for its emphasis on television and the role it has played documenting Nigeria’s journey. Meanwhile, it stays true to the festival’s tradition by including free film workshops, hosting a colourful market of African crafts and gift items, live music, and a bevy of thrilling performances.
October 1 (2014), Kunle Afolayan’s latest opus set at a time when the country was still negotiating what independence from British rule would look like, will be signing off the festival week on a very high note.
Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival is a not -for-profit project of The Life House.
This year’s edition is in partnership with African Film Festival Inc (New York), Nadia Denton, Royal African Society (London), British Council, and Federal Palace Hotel & Casino.
It is supported by The Ford Foundation, Alliance Francaise, French Consulate, The Dutch Embassy, Goethe Institut, Smooth 98.1FM, The Moorhouse, Radi8, YNaija, Woodstock Electronics, VAN Lagos, YAP&E and Zircon Marine.
