This 12 months's iREPRESENT Worldwide Documentary Movie Pageant focuses on Nobel Prize winner Professor Wole Soyinka, who turns 90 in July.
WHEN the 2024 version of the iREPRESENT Worldwide Documentary Movie Pageant kicks off on March 21, documentary movie followers can take pleasure in 4 days of leisure throughout two places.
Greater than 45 movies will probably be screened through the 14th version of the movie pageant, organized by the Basis for Promotion of Documentary Movie Pageant in Africa (FPDFA).
The pageant is themed 'Righting the Improper' and will probably be held bodily at two places in Lagos till the twenty fourth: Freedom Park, Lagos Island and Alliance Francaise, Mike Adenuga Centre, Ikoyi.
The pageant, a few of which is able to happen just about, is devoted to the Nobel Prize winner, Professor Wole Soyinka, who will rejoice his ninetieth anniversary in July.
Government Director Femi Odugbemi defined why the Nobel laureate is being honored with this version of the pageant based in 2010: “He embodies the virtues of the quintessential 'citizen activist' with the readability of imaginative and prescient and fervour for the betterment of our collective humanity required for be certain that energy was accountable to the folks.
“Over the previous sixty years and extra, he has constantly used his mental acuity and private assets to defend human values and the person's basic freedom to withstand oppression. He’s recognized to have additionally proven a excessive diploma of patriotic zeal in calling for good governance and participatory democracy by residents of the nation even at severe dangers to his consolation and profession. As a consequence of his adherence to his beliefs, he typically encountered issues with successive authorities companies and sure sections of society. However he stays steadfast in his self-imposed wrestle to all the time proper the wrongs he perceives in his social, cultural and political atmosphere. These values and virtues are what iREP hopes to focus on and rejoice through the 2024 pageant to make sure members of the social milieu that they’ll follow their beliefs and convictions with out being hunted by the mafia.”
The 2-day Soyinka pageant section on the Alliance Francaise, Mike Adenuga Centre, will function two keynote speeches. Author, filmmaker, cultural theorist, scientist, artwork historian and professor of comparative literature and movie historical past at New York College, Manthia Diawara, will give the primary presentation on the primary day, 'RIGHTING the FUTURE: Soyinka & His Engagements'.
World Community Professor of Drama, Social and Cultural Evaluation, New York College, New York, Awam Amkpa, will ship the second day keynote on Soyinka's humanistic beliefs as mirrored in his works. Every keynote will probably be adopted by a panel dialogue and screenings of movies associated to Soyinka's profession.
The Internal Metropolis Screening (ICS): Documentary for the Underserved Communities mission, which was launched final 12 months, may even happen throughout this version. The mission, tagged 'Documentary Movie for the Underserved', was created to disseminate documentary movie concepts and content material to communities not usually concerned within the exhibition and consumption of media content material. There will probably be a repeat within the 4 communities – Bariga, Ajegunle, Ikorodu and Ejigbo – the place chosen movies had been screened this 12 months in 2023.
In complete, Irep 2024 will see greater than 45 movies from Nigerian filmmakers and their counterparts from 25 international locations throughout 4 continents, who submitted their entries by Filmfreeway.
Per Odugbemi, some specifically curated movies which have toured the worldwide pageant circuits and received awards worldwide may even be screened.
On 'Righting The Future' because the theme of the pageant, Odugbemi stated it was chosen “to spark a dialog between the current and the way forward for the continent, and to foster a deeper dialogue between the youth and their elders to encourage. The provocative theme is about within the context of occasions on this season of political anomalies and management failures in lots of international locations on the continent.”
