African Indigenous Languages Film festival comes to Kano
Preparations are on to hold the maiden edition of African
Indigenous Languages Film festival in Kano from October 23 to 27, 2018. The film
exhibition is being organized to promote African films and its diverse cultures
in the global market.
According to DailyTrust, the film festival would afford stakeholders
in the movie industry in West Africa a platform to brainstorm and share ideas
on emerging trends in the film-making business.
The five-day event would aims to create a platform for
repackaging narratives about Africa as woven by international media outlets for
global consumption, and to also position African films into a formidable tool
that can promote Africa, Africans and everything about Africa to the global
community.
The festival would promote city of Kano and the rich Hausa culture
as guests and participants would be taken on a tour Kano city to enable them feel
the rich cultural heritage of the city and appreciate the tourism potentials of
the state.
The festival shall feature a workshop in which papers would
be presented on the theme, ‘Contextualizing
African indigenous language film: the past, the present and the future’.
The papers to be presented would be packaged into a book to serve as a
reference material for future use. There shall also be master classes on four
key areas of filmmaking with seasoned international scholars proposed to lead
each of the sessions among others.
Comments
Post a Comment
We love to hear from you, share your comment/views. Thanks