Nigeria’s My Father Shadow received a Camera d’Or special mention but African films left Cannes 2025 awards empty-handed.
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The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) also named two other programmers, alongside Claire Diao, to its team.
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Steven Markovitz’s Big World Cinema Announces First African Producers Accelerator Cohort
Funmbi Ogunbanwo, producer of Nigeria’s Cannes selection ‘My Father’s Shadow’, is part of the African Producers Accelerator maiden cohort.
‘My Father’s Shadow,’ the debut film by Akinola Davies Jr. has screened at the Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews.
Moses Babatope, Founder and CEO of Nile Media Entertainment Group, has been selected as part of the TIFF Market Advisory Committee.
The Nigerian producer was reflecting on her 15 years since the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF).
The programme features a range of projects, including fiction features, documentaries, shorts, series, animation, and film criticism.
Freedom Way was named winner of the AMVCA 2025 big award, Best Movie; the film’s producer and screenwriter, Blessing Uzzi, also won the writing award for film.
The fund was created to “revolutionise Global Africa’s film and creative industry”.
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Somali Filmmaker Mo Harawe Among Inaugural €100,000 Displacement Film Fund Recipients
The Cannes-premiering filmmaker’s Whispers of a Burning Scent has attracted a production grant from the Displacement Film Fund.
