Irepresent comes to Lagos next week
The organisers of
IREPRESENT International Documentary Film Festival have released
additional information regarding its upcoming 3-day documentary film
festival. The festival will feature symposia and workshops which will
focus on a number of topics.
Cinematographer,
Tunde Kelani, and Sandra Obiago will lead a panel on ‘Africa In Self
Conversation’. CBAAC head, Tunde Babawale will also lead another panel
on ‘Motives of Black Consciousness in African Documentaries’.
Also, among those
who will lead symposia and workshop sessions at the festival are: Emeka
Mba, DG, National Film and Video Censors Board; Fidelis Duker,
Director, Abuja Film Festival; and filmmaker scholar, Manthia Diawara,
director, African American Studies, New York University.
Documentary films
from around Africa and beyond will be shown during iRep. They include;
‘Great African Series’ (with films on Soyinka, Mandela, Haile Selassie,
and others) by Akin Omotosho; ‘The Truth is Unbelievable’ (Sri Lanka);
‘The Rabbaba Man’(Sudan) by Mario Mabor; and ‘Zimbabwe’s Forgotten
Children’(South Africa) by Xoliswa Sithole, among others.
Organisers have
also unveiled an impressive list of filmmakers who are expected to
participate in the festival, the first of its kind.
Among them are:
South African, Jihan El-Tahri, producer of ‘Behind the Rainbow’, which
is the festival film; Akin Omotosho, director of MNET Great African
Series; Lydie Diakhate, director of Real Life Documentary Forum; and
Sudanese Issraa El-Kogali, producer of ‘In Search of Hip-Hop’.
Inspire Africa will
present ‘Naija Diamonds’. CBAAC will also present ‘Omo Alaketu’ and
‘FESTAC 77’; a UNESCO and Nigerian Television Authority Documentary
film, while the National Film Institute will be presenting works by
about five students. The filmmakers will be expected to present their
films and entertain questions from the audience.
Founded in 2010,
the IREP International Documentary Film Festival has on its board Femi
Odugbemi, past president of the Independent Television Producers
Association of Nigeria (ITPAN); Sunday Guardian editor and culture
activist, Jahman Anikulapo; and director of the Lagos Film Office,
Makin Soyinka.
The three festival
movers are operatives of the West African Documentary Film Forum
(WADFF) with a mission to develop and nurture the talent of young
filmmakers in Africa and internationally.
The festival is scheduled to hold in Lagos from January 20 to January 23 at Terra Kulture and the Lagos Business School.
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