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    A Star-Studded Ensemble Will Play the Live Score at the Premiere of Akinola Davies Jr.’s New Film
    Music
    20 June 2025

    A Star-Studded Ensemble Will Play the Live Score at the Premiere of Akinola Davies Jr.’s New Film

    Mercury prize winner Sampha and inventive jazz drummer Moses Boyd are in the lineup when ‘rituals: union black’ premieres at London’s Somerset House.

    With 'My Father's Shadow,' a Pair of Nigerian Brothers Is Making Cannes History
    Film + TV
    15 May 2025

    With 'My Father's Shadow,' a Pair of Nigerian Brothers Is Making Cannes History

    Filmmakers Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies will premiere their feature at the prestigious film festival this weekend, hoping to drive conversations around fatherhood and nationalism.

    Oscar Award on display during the presentation of the GarciCine exhibition at the Conde Duque exhibition center, on 28 June, 2023 in Madrid, Spain. The exhibition commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first Oscar for a Spanish-language film and pays tribute to the director of the film 'Volver a Empezar' Jose Luis Garci.
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    29 June 2023

    Oscars Invite Nearly 400 New Members Including Nigerian Filmmakers and Writers

    Jadesola Osiberu, C.J. "Fiery”, Kunle Afolayan & Richard Mofe-Damijo are among several of the African filmmakers and writers invited to the Oscars Academy.

    First Look: 'Waiting for Hassana' Is a Short Doc That Reframes the Narrative About the Chibok Girls
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    12 September 2017

    First Look: 'Waiting for Hassana' Is a Short Doc That Reframes the Narrative About the Chibok Girls

    Watch the trailer for "Waiting for Hassana"—a short doc that follows a Chibok survivor—exclusively here.

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