The
highly acclaimed I-Represent International Documentary Film Festival which
debuted last year holds its second edition from Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th of
March, 2012, at Terra-Kulture, Victoria Island, Lagos, and Freedom Park, Broad
Street, Lagos, Nigeria.
The
festival is holding this year in partnership with Goethe Institut and AG DokumentarFilm (German Association of
independent producers), which jointly are facilitating the participation of a host
of international Filmmakers who would be presenting films as well as conducting
Training Workshops.
iREP
2012 will feature screenings and discussions at Terra Kulture each day from
10am-5pm Thursday-Saturday; and screenings from 7pm-11pm Thursday-Saturday and
from 10am-10pm on Sunday at Freedom Park’s outdoor theatre.
KEYNOTE/CONFERENCE
The
festival is conceptualized on the framework: AFRICA IN SELF CONVERSATION, and
it would explore the theme: DEMOCRACY AND CULTURE - THE DOCUMENTARY FILM
INTERVENTION.
As
would be deduced from the unprecedented and sporadic people's mass action that
attended the January 1, 2012 removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government,
a new sense of participation in governance is evolving on the African
continent. It is thus increasingly becoming important to explore opportunities
open to African filmmakers to bring better understanding and approaches to
participatory democracy as a part of African political culture through the
medium of documentary films.
The
scope of the Festival would cover such areas as Democracy and Demonstrations,
New media technology and participatory democracy, and the potentials of the
Nigerian films to explore and exploit the documentary format in its production
values.
A
key subtheme in the 2012 iREP Documentary Film Festival is: IS NOLLYWOOD
DOCUMENTARY? This will feature a conversation among filmmakers and their
publics on the potentials of Nollywood films to embrace the Documentary ethics
in its operation and outputs. A key area of discourse would be the need to
explore the production and distribution potentials and schemes of Nollywood
towards achieving documentary objectives.
We
have the pleasure of Professor Jean-Paul Colleyn (a world renowned filmmaker,
film scholar and anthropologist) to deliver the Keynote at the Festival opening
ceremony on Thursday March 22 at 10am. Jean
Paul-Colleyn is an Anthropologist, Filmmaker and Professor at the Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Center of African Studies at EHESS (school
for high studies in social sciences) in Paris, France. He has conducted
extensive fieldwork research in West Africa; and currently engaged in a
research project in Mali. He was a producer at Arte TV channel (1988-98); visiting
professor at New York University (1998-2001); Commissioned Editor of the series
'The Art of the Myth' (Arte, 2009-2010); Director of over 30 Documentary films
and author of over 14 books and many scholarly essays on documentary films, Art
and African Studies and Culture.
Also
speaking at the Festival are luminaries with vast knowledge and relevant
experience in filmmaking and the media. They include famous broadcaster,
award-winning journalist and Chairman of CHANNELS Television Mr. John Momoh;
Director-General of the National Film and Video Censors Board and a renowned
authority on New Media channels for content management and distribution, Mr.
Emeka Mba.
TRAINING/WORKSHOP
The
Training Workshop of the festival which last year was attended by over 100
young Nigerian Filmmakers will be holding once again at the Freedom Park Venue
on Friday and Saturday and it will feature Facilitators such as versatile
producer of African films, Barbel Mauch from Germany; veteran documentarist and
TV manager, Alhaji Adegboyega Arulogun; TV documentarist, Cyril Okonkwo; ffilmmaker, diplomat Amb. Yussuf Mamman; film
and photo documentarist, Tam Fiofori; and Festival Executive Director Femi
Odugbemi.
GUESTS
Notable
amongst international professionals participating are Nigerian/German Filmmaker
Branwen Okpako who will be screening her acclaimed film “The Re-education of Aowa
Obama;" German Director Jens Wenkel, who has worked extensively on
Nigerian/African themes; Kathrin Springer (Producer, South Africa); Ulla
Wessler (DokFEst Munich) and Bärbel Mauch (producer, Berlin).
The
festival will be screening over 20 films at both Terra Kulture during the day
and from 7pm-11pm at Freedom Park each night. Notable films on the schedule
include “LAGOS: Notes of a City” by Jens Wenkel, “Linking Africa” by Michael
Grotenhoff, “RedHot Nigeria” by Sandra Obiago, “Espoir Voyage” by Michel Zongo,
“And the Chain was Not” by Femi Odugbemi, “An African Election” by Jarreth
Merz, “Duniya Juyi juyi” by Abdullahi Yahaya Sa’ad and “The Guantanamo Trap” by
Thomas Wallner.
MEETINGS/NETWORKING
An
important feature of this festival is a PRODUCERS’ ROUNDTABLE CONFERENCE
featuring conversation on Strategies For International Co-Production to be
attended by Documentary filmmakers from Cameroon, Germany, Ghana and Nigeria. Ms.
Katarina Hedren, a key promoter of the Documentary Network Africa (DNA) initiative
will moderate it. Ms. Hendren is the former chair of the Swedish based film
festival, CinemAfrica, and she works as a translator/interpreter, as well as
discussion and workshop moderator/facilitator/designer, film programmer, film
critic, and writer with South African producers and directors as well as
organisations such as Tri-Continental Film Festival, People to People
Conference, Encounters International Documentary Festival, The Goethe-Institut
and FESPACO. She is the coordinator of the Mokolo project — an initiative that
aims to create a virtual platform for web content relating to African
audiovisual industries, thus improving the accessibility and visibility of
African audiovisual content and professionals.
AWARD
The
festival award ceremony will also be staged during which a few well-appointed
veteran professionals would be inducted into the iREP/West Africa Documentary
Film Forum's Hall of Fame in recognotion of the selfless service they have
rendered to the vocation in their individual career journey.
ABOUT
iREP FESTIVAL
i-Represent
International Documentary Film Festival is an annual festival dedicated to
promoting awareness about the power of documentary films to serve as a means of
deepening and sharing social and cultural education as well as encouraging
participatory democracy in our societies. The maiden edition held in January
2011, in Lagos, brought together a pool of veteran filmmakers, film scholars,
critics, Arts enthusiasts, and students from different parts of the world.
We
believe strongly that the 2012 Festival would provide completely invaluable
opportunities for all participants to discuss cogent issues that are germane to
the future of filmmaking in Africa, and indeed, the World. Activities at the
conference have been carefully designed to cover a wide spectrum of knowledge
areas and interest, and would include Paper presentations, Training and
Workshops, Interactive panel discussions, film screenings, and Networking.
We
look forward to the pleasure of having your presence at the festival
Thank
you.
More
details at www.irepfilmfestival.com
Femi
Odugbemi
Executive
Director
For
IREP FILM FORUM
www.irepfilmfestival.com 3 Oguntona Crescent, Gbagada Phase 1, Lagos Nigeria. P.O. Box 36 Surulere. T: +234 803 425 1963, +234 802 201 6495, +234 803 403 0646 E: info@irepfilmfestival.com
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