‘Juyin Sarauta’ shines at KILAF

‘Juyin Sarauta’ (The Royal Ascendance) produced by Hajiya Balaraba Ramat Yakubu and Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino clinched various awards including the best film award at the just concluded maiden edition of Kano Indigenous Languages Films Market and Festival (KILAF) 2018. The film ‘Juyin Sarauta’ has lately enjoyed series of nominations and has also won several […]

‘Juyin Sarauta’ (The Royal Ascendance) produced by Hajiya Balaraba Ramat Yakubu and Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino clinched various awards including the best film award at the just concluded maiden edition of Kano Indigenous Languages Films Market and Festival (KILAF) 2018.

The film ‘Juyin Sarauta’ has lately enjoyed series of nominations and has also won several awards within and outside the country since its debut.

The film portrays the Hausa Kingdom and the intrigues involved in the ruling processes among other interesting issues that make fans sit on the edges of their seats. It is a movie that defines the vital role played by women in the emergence of rulers and leaders in Hausa societies.

According to the co-producer of the award-winning film Hajiya Balaraba Ramat, the film’s dialogues are professionally crafted to make it suitable for all classes of viewers. She further revealed that the film won Best Film in the Nigerian Language Award by Zuma Film Festival 2017.

Similarly, the film won the best story, best director and best production design awards at KILAF.

Another multiple winner at the awards ceremony was Sadiq Sani Sadiq for the film ‘Ruwan Dare’ which won the best actor award while the film ‘Daren farko’ won the best short story award.

According to the initiator and organiser of the festival, Alhaji Adulkarim Mohammed, the festival was organised to correct some shortfalls in the narratives about Africa as woven by the international media. He said that the festival would create a platform for African film industries to repackage its values for better storytelling about Africa in the global market.

Mohammed said, “With the trend of globalisation, the festival is using it in terms of the actual presentation of our heritage, culture and our values to the outer world. It is an avenue to foster and nurture our own language medium films, to do an effective campaign in telling our own stories by ourselves the way they are supposed to be told.

“It is a festival  through which we showed the world that only by being original, we can ride on the platform of globalisation through making our work available worldwide to tell our own stories in our own way without imitating anybody.”