Entertainment • Created March 19, 2016 05:00

‘Ota Benga,’ ‘Silent Tears,’ others for iREP film fest

Niyi Coker’s ‘Ota Benga,’ and Ishaya Bako’s ‘Silent Tears’ are among productions to screen at the 2016 edition of the iREPRESENT International Documentary Film Festival. The festival tagged ‘#Change… documentary films as agent provocateur,’ is billed to hold next week at the Freedom Park, Lagos is the sixth edition of the annual festival. According to […]

‘Ota Benga,’ ‘Silent Tears,’ others for iREP film fest
‘Ota Benga,’ ‘Silent Tears,’ others for iREP film fest

Niyi Coker’s ‘Ota Benga,’ and Ishaya Bako’s ‘Silent Tears’ are among productions to screen at the 2016 edition of the iREPRESENT International Documentary Film Festival.
The festival tagged ‘#Change… documentary films as agent provocateur,’ is billed to hold next week at the Freedom Park, Lagos is the sixth edition of the annual festival.
According to iREP co-founder, Jahman Anikulapo, “the 2016 festival is conceived on the traditional framework of Africa in Self-conversation and will explore the theme ‘#CHANGE, Documentary as Agent Provocateur.’ The theme is premised on the Change as relating to Political, Economic, and Technical,” he said.
He added that: “The line-up of programmes for the event include the screening of over 30 carefully selected international films representing the best new works on relevant to our theme of Africa-in-Self-Conversation.”
Other productions to feature at the event are ‘Negritude: A Dialogue Between Soyinka And Senghor,’ ‘The revolution won’t be televised,’ ‘The drills Of Afi Mountain’ and ‘Faaji Agba’ among others.
The likes of Tunde Kelani, (‘Ma’ami’), Jane Mote (a former senior vice president of global channels for BBC Worldwide), Steven Markovitz (‘Viva Riva!’), Prof. Niyi Coker (‘Ota Benga’) and Prof. Awam Amkpa (‘Winds Against Our Souls’) among other international and home-based professionals in the industry.
Programmes to hold at the four-day event are special international guests’ in-conference, the iREP producers’ roundtable, paper presentations and panel discussions, training workshop for young African filmmakers on filmmaking as well as the iREP awards and cocktail/award ceremony.
 

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