Preparation Hot-Up For Lagos International Film Convention 2024
The second edition of Lagos International Film and Cinema Convention (LIFACC) is scheduled to hold at the Ebony Life Place, Victoria Island, Lagos, from August 1 to 32024. LIFACC promoted as the finest gathering in Lagos Nigeria of cinema owners, top executives, film distributors, film producers, cinema set-up facilities/equipment manufacturers/suppliers, and all sundry businesses around the cinema business from around the world, provides cinema owners with the chance to see the newest and most significant developments in concession and cinema equipment, catering to that cut-throat, high-stakes sector. The event will bring into Lagos a diverse set of cinema stakeholders, film distributors, producers, cinema equipment /facilities manufacturers/suppliers, and solution providers from across the world to exhibit products and offer deals. Its an event where distribution executives and owners of cinemas congregate, socialise, and network while conducting business. They also keep an eye out for new machinery, supplies, and services that could help establish their theatre as the go-to venue. Founder and CEO of LIFACC, Theophilus Akatugba, disclosed that numerous industry professionals are expected to attend LIFACC 2024. ‘If you are in the business of cinema exhibition of cinema exhibition, film distribution, and film production, or if operating a cinema is one of your business goals, or if you supply the film and cinema sectors with equipment or services, you must be present at LIFACC’. Details of LIFACC can be sourced at https://lifacc.com/
BFI London Film Festival Set To Hold In October
THE 68th BFI London Film Festival held in partnership with American Express is set to hold between October 9 to 20. Each year the BFI London Film Festival presents a selection of the best in world cinema, showing audiences a wide array of films, representing a variety of languages, genres and filmmaking styles. Indeed, the LFF showcases exceptional British filmmaking alongside international work, and the programme spans features, shorts, fiction, documentary, artists moving image, restorations, animation and films for families, alongside titles destined for awards-season glory. Although entries have closed for this edition, in seeking films for selection, the festival programmers view films at other festivals, follow alumni filmmakers work and research films in production from UK distributors and international partners, actively tracking new work from different territories. The festival also keep submissions open to filmmakers who wish for their films to be considered, ‘’so the festival can encounter fresh filmmaking voices that may not reach us by other means, ensuring we consider the widest possible pool of new work, from directorial debuts to established talent.” At the 67th edition, which held last year, the festival reached audiences of 430,550 across 12 days of screenings in London and UK-wide, including features, series, shorts, immersive art and extended reality works, Screen Talks, LFF For Free events, free short films on BFI Player and the LFF Industry Forum. Follow the festival website for more details: https://www.bfi.org.uk
Kaduna International Film Festival Holds In August
THE Kaduna International Film Festival (KIFF) will hold between August 27 and 31 in Kaduna, the founder of the annual festival Audu Israel has asserted. Audu disclosed that the festival will continue in spite of the near lack of sponsorship because it has become a critical tool in changing the narrative of the northern part of the country as a region grappling with insecurity. Audu, also the Vice-Chairman of Nigeria Film Festivals Association (NFFA), said during a courtesy visit to the Director General of the Nigerian Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri, disclosed that that the northern part of the country was blessed with natural and human resources. He said that the festival would be highlighting and showcasing the rich culture of the region and its creative industry during the three-day long festival. He further stated that the forthcoming KIFF festival would hold in August and would include activities such as master classes to develop skills of creativity, panel sessions, seminars, film screening, exhibitions and award ceremony.
According to him, the creative industry in the northern part of the country was lacking the requisite exposure to grow in spite its many talents and potential. He expressed confidence that the annual KIFF would help in addressing the situation. Responding, NIDCOM DG commended the KIFF organizers for their determination to use the festival in changing the trajectory of the northern part of the country. Dabiri noted that the creative industry is the forte of youths worldwide and that the creative industry particularly film had been used by countries such as India to change the trajectory of their nations. We have deployed film for that purpose too but we need to do much more to promote our values and culture using the film medium. Dabiri commended the organisers for their consistency and she assured that she will use the platform of NIDCOM to help in publicizing the festival so that filmmakers in the diaspora can be attracted to not only submit their films, but to attend. The festival opens from August 27 and will close on August 31.
