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Ion International Film Fest in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

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ION INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BRINGS CELEBRITIES TO NIGERIA. BY DAVID AJIBOYE Superstar actress Daryl Hannah, Pras, a member of the legendary Grammy Award winning group ‘The Fugees,’ and Gian Carlo Esposito, distinguished star of numerous movies including “Twilight,” “Derailed,”  Spike Lee films, TV and Broadway, joined by Bollywood Stars Nandita Das, Nandana Sen, and filmmaker Madhu Mantena are all bound for Port Harcourt, Nigeria to attend the 6th Annual ION International Film Festival. Each year, ION is held in a […]

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Festival of Indegenous African Film

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ECHOES OF HOPE FROM THE FESTIVAL OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN FILM Even without a major sponsor and government’s support, this year’s Behind The Screen, a building capacity workshop in the Nigerian film industry which has now transformed to the Festival of Indigenous African Films was a huge success in all ramifications. Organizedby one of Nigeria’s foremost films and records production companies, Remdel Optimum Communication, Akure, the festival, which ran between Sunday, 23 and Thursday, 28 August provided a better platform for

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Drama At Lagos International Film Festival

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The 2009 Lagos International Film Festival (LIFF) with ‘Promoting Policy Instruments for Cinema Development in Africa’ as its theme held from August 11 to 16, 2009 at the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos. Established by Madu Chikwendu in 1996 as the National Conference on Entertainment, LIFF transformed into the African Video Expo in 2005 and was finally rebranded as the Lagos International Film Festival in 2006.

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