Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga To Premiere At Festival De Cannes 2024
Nine years after Mad Max: Fury Road, the Australian director, screenwriter and producer George Miller’s famous saga’s is back on the Croisette! The highly anticipated Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will be revealed in the presence of the director and the cast, led by Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke, on the occasion of an Out of Competition gala screening at the Grand Théâtre Lumière at the Palais des Festivals on Wednesday May 15. Mad Max (1979), Mad Max II: The Challenge (1981), Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024): in 5 episodes and in almost 5 decades, George Miller has created a cathartic myth, even a cathartic mythology.

Mad Max is a chronicle of societal and environmental collapse, playing with genre codes to question these themes, initially visionary and now cruelly topical. Originally filmed in the Australian Outback, this revisited “Western on wheels” describes a dystopian world where speed and movement are just as synonymous with life energy as with death as a result of resource depletion, offering the viewer a dose of adrenaline rarely equaled on the big screen.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the latest episode. It returns to the origins of Furiosa, the new saga-heroine who appeared in Mad Max: Fury Road, rewarded with several Oscars. Actress Anya Taylor-Joy plays the young Furiosa, trying to return home, despite numerous hostile armed gangs. “The idea of this prequel has been with me for over a decade,” said George Miller. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to return to the Festival de Cannes – along with Anya, Chris and Tom – to share Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. There is no better place than La Croisette to experience this film with audiences on the world stage.” George Miller, the singular and unclassifiable filmmaker, passing from post-apocalyptic films to young audiences – Babe (1995), Happy Feet (2006) – was twice a Festival de Cannes Jury member before becoming its President in 2016 for the 69th edition. In 2022, he presented Three Thousand Years of Longing with Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, Out of Competition.  

Dates For TIFF 2024 And TIFFCOM Announced
THE Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) and the festival’s affiliated market, TIFFCOM, are pleased to announce their 2024 dates. The 37th TIFF will be held for 10 days from October 28 (Mon.) through November 6 (Wed.), while TIFFCOM will be held for 3 days from October 30 (Wed.) through November 1 (Fri.). The main venues of the 37th TIFF will continue to be in the Hibiya-Yurakucho-Marunouchi-Ginza area, and the call for entries is scheduled to begin on April 25. Details will be announced on TIFF’s official website at a later date.

Entries Still Open For African Indigenous Language Film Festival
ENTRIES are still open for the second diet of the African Indigenous Language Film Festival (AILFF). Organizers say call for entries will close on May 15, 2024 while the festival will hold in Lagos as from June 3 through to June 6. According to the founder and CEO of the Festival Osezua Stephen- Imobhio, the 2024 edition will highlight Africa’s cultural richness and tourism potentials. The festival accepts only films in Africa indigenous languages and all entries must be subtitled.

Entries Still Open For Africa Movie Academy Awards 2024
THE Africa Film Academy (AFA) who are the organizers of the annual Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) have announced call for entries for the 20th edition of the award scheme that was founded by Late Peace Anyiam-Osigwe. The organizers also unveiled plans and activities for the 2024 edition. Raymond Anyiam-Osigwe, the designated CEO of the AFA board, said the decision to unveil the activities ahead of AMAA 2024 was a deliberate move to involve every film practitioner in Africa and the diaspora. Anyiam-Osigwe said entries in all award categories will end in April. He said Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Lagos state governor, will return as the host for the 20th edition of the AMAAs. “We officially begin the journey to AMAA 2024. This 20th edition of the AMAA will serve as a testimony to African creativity as we celebrate and toast not just the Founder Peace Anyiam-Osigwe and her contribution in placing African film and film makers on the global stage. But also 20 years of AMAA, which showcases the finest in African film and cinematography and has brought the World to appreciate African film and filmmakers. AMAA is currently calling for entries in all categories, and this will last till April 2024’ he said.