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Written by Francisca Eleyele and directed by ‘Chukwu Martin, Abe Ni is about one of the most dehumanizing cultural practices still rampant today: female genital mutilation. It refers to the cultural practice of removing whether in part or in whole,…
By the time you finish reading this piece, you might disagree with it. As humans with distinct cinematic tastes and cravings, disagreement over preference is constant. Listicles, of this nature, are conduits of personal obsession. As such, it falls prey…
Filmmakers are known to often wear multiple hats by working in many departments, from producing to directing. Emmanuel Izuoba is a Nollywood filmmaker who has had different roles since he started, and he does not plan to slow down any…
In the first scene of the 1596 play, The Merchant of Venice, one of the main characters, Antonio, likens the world to a stage: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;A stage where every man must play a…
It has been years — five or seven, I can’t recall, since I read TJ Benson’s Tea — a short story about two migrants whose only medium of communication, for a while, was their eyes, hands and other body parts.…
There is a popular saying that “a film is made three times: first in the screenplay, next in production and finally, in the edit”. Every film that was ever made was first created in the mind of the writer. A…
There is something visually and mentally appealing about Atoka’s opening scene. The scene is set and shot on a mountaintop, far from the bedlam of modernity. This scene later evolves into a poetic sequence that introduces the film’s major cast…
The second day of The Annual Film Mischief 2023 expands on the social consciousness of Day 1. Shooting the culture can also be described as stoking the embers of topics we like to run away from or think of as…
The idea of a festival dispatch is to summarize the proceedings of a day from the vantage point of a unifying theme. The search for a theme that makes sense of everything can be fun, but there’s always the danger…
It was a celebration of eclectic films at the just concluded 2nd edition of TAFM’23. The four-day festival, held physically across Accra, Abuja and Lagos, came to a close on Sunday, April 30th 2023 with Awaiting Trial – a documentary…
TAFM rolled out its signature black carpet on the 27th April 2023 in Lagos & Accra for its second edition. The Lagos festival kicked off at VIVA Cinemas, Ikeja (same venue as TAFM’22). Festival Director 1, Uche Chika Elumelu, delivered…
The short film JiSatsu is divided into three chapters. In Chapter One: Achlys titre class, we learn that our protagonist has N147 in his account balance and is in debt of N238,232. So, he attempts to drink poison in front…
April 3rd, 2023 Press Release On 27 April 2023, The Annual Film Mischief (TAFM) will return for its second Pan African edition. This year, our theme is #ShootTheCulture. This theme is a call to action for us to tell stories…
What’s an African story? Are they stories written in African dialects that carry generational knowledge and proverbs? Are they stories that revisit the fleeting but ever-present African past (Silverton Siege, African Queens: Njinga, Kalushi: The Story of Solomon Mahlangu)? Perhaps…
Filmmaking is an intimate and collaborative creative medium. Filmmakers’ personalized interpretation and understanding of what motion pictures are come to the fore when you watch their films or have a conversation with them. For Adesola Oni, his anarchist filmmaking style…
Young independent filmmakers have been churning out diverse projects in the last few years. Thanks to social media and the increased use of easily accessible distribution channels like YouTube, new voices have the platforms to tell new stories that challenge…
“You’ll likely watch it more than once.” Joseph Osamudiamen ends with this phrase in his review of the film on whatkeptmeup.com. With sound penmanship, Joseph paints the picture so well that it’s impossible to make a copy. And I did…
Ebose Ehi-Bello’s The Day We Met opens with a family of three—a couple, Anthony and Cynthia, and their daughter, Hannah—having their morning prayers. When the couple begins cracking jokes with one another, it occurs to Hannah that she has never…
Impostor syndrome is the internal psychological experience of feeling like a phony in some area of your life, despite any success that you have achieved in that area. According to a recent KPMG study, seventy-five percent of executive women report…
The Griot is a tragic romance drama that follows the journeys of two friends, Sanmi and Lakunle. Lakunle is a smart yet timid weaver who feeds his audacious and assuming friend, Sanmi with stories that helps him gain popularity in…
I’ve been encumbered with the brutal task of trying to summarize the year for Nollywood in a couple of words. I could simply call it good or bad, slap on a block of decent prose to back my stance, and…
Jordan Peele has had a good five years. In 2017, the director released his first film Get Out, to waves of acclaim from critics and audiences alike. Most filmmakers can only dream of having an outing as profitable as the…
