Film-makers urged to explore opportunities in forthcoming Kano film festival

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Moving Images Limited, Alhaji Adulkarim Mohammed has urged film makers in the country to explore opportunities in the forthcoming international film festival which is scheduled to hold in Kano. At least 15 African countries are expected to participate in the maiden film exhibition organized by Kano Indigenous Languages […]

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Moving Images Limited, Alhaji Adulkarim Mohammed has urged film makers in the country to explore opportunities in the forthcoming international film festival which is scheduled to hold in Kano.

At least 15 African countries are expected to participate in the maiden film exhibition organized by Kano Indigenous Languages Films Market and Festival (KILAF) in October.

Speaking in a meeting with various stakeholders in the Kano based movie industry (Kannywood), Mohammed noted some shortfalls in the narratives about Africa as woven by the international media outlets, stating that the festival would create a platform for African film industries to repackage its values for better story telling about Africa in the global market.

“With the trend of globalisatoin, I want us to use the power of globalization in terms of what it can do because it’s a monster that can swallow any small rat or ant and run; so the best way is to embrace it and glocalise it. By glocalising globalization I simply mean that we need a platform that we shall be able to foster and nurture our own language medium films to do an effective campaign in telling our own stories because it is only by being original that we can ride on the platform of globalization through glocalisation to tell our own stories in our own way without imitating anybody” he stated.

Alhaji Hamisu Iyantama, one of the famous movie producers in Kano described the initiative as a welcomed development that would enhance quality as well as create market for the local films produced in the country.

He appealed to his colleagues in the industry to embrace the initiative stressing that it is a solution to their myriad of challenges in Kannywood.