Fanie Fourie’s Lobola is an authentic South African love story about two people from different cultural backgrounds. The film is a raw depiction of the issues that arise in the country’s multicultural society when love happens across lines of colour and tradition. Audiences are raving about it: Lobola has already won the Film Festival Audience Award at this year’s Jozi Film Festival as well as the Audience Award at the [...]
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The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) is celebrating its 20th New York edition this week. The film festival runs from this Friday, Nov. 23 to Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 and will showcase 54 films from 30 countries. We’re upp order viagra cheap er excited to check out this year’s selections. Here are 5 reasons we’re excited about it: Dr. Bello (Nigeria/ USA) A long-awaited-yet-obviously-necessary meeting of Hollywood [...]
The filming of Half of A Yellow Sun, the movie based on author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book of the same name, has finally wrapped in Nigeria, reports Arise Magazine. The film, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose and Genievieve Nnaji, is centered around the Nigerian-Biafran war of the 1960s, and follows the lives of Olanna (Newton) and Kainene (Rose), glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family who must [...]
Sigh. It's been nearly two years since the Winnie Mandela biopic starring Jennifer Hudson and Terrence Howard was filmed, but we've yet to see the results, leaving us to question whether it'll ever make it to theaters. You Will LOVE: 10 Hollywood Castings in African Hero Roles Perhaps the hold up is because of the not-so-favorable reviews, or Winnie Mandela's objections? Whatever the case, it looks like things are picking [...]
The acclaimed film Man on Ground is showing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City tonight. Man on Ground is a visceral, intelligent film exploring the relationships and prejudices we have towards Africa and ourselves as Africans. The film follows the London Broker Ade, played by Hakeem Kae-Kazim, who travels to Johannesburg to investigate his missing brother’s whereabouts. When xenophobic riots erupt he is obliged to take [...]
Nothing gets me excited quite like a good piece of cinema on Africa. I was delighted to come across two projects we’re really rooting for at the moment. The best part is YOU, us…we can all can help these budding filmmakers tell their stories. First up is Boneshaker by Frances Bodomo about a Ghanaian family that takes a trip to a tent revival church in Louisiana to cure their violent [...]
(photo: Mohamed Dione and Marie Zoumanigui in ‘Maffe Tiga’) The African Movie Academy Awards take place tonight in Lagos. First time-nominee Mohamed Dione, a LA-NY based director and actor, with his first film Maffe Tiga is short-listed in the best short film category. Dione is a working actor with roles in the likes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Notorious as well as a feature in Andrew Dosunmu’s film Restless City [...]
Former ESPN and E! host Sal Masekela explores his complicated relationship with his father, South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela, in the new short, “Alekasam.” Conceptualized when Sal was working on a new album, the short documents how Sal dealt with feeling of abandonment by his famous father, who moved back to South Africa in the 90s. The film debuts at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City this [...]
I’m cheating. This spot is usually for blogs technically. But Buni TV, a web and mobile video channel, is too good and long overdue an idea to pass up. It’s an aggregation of innovative content you’re more likely to find off the beaten path of mainstream entertainment. It doesn’t say anything about curating just content from Africa, and it is brand new but so far that’s where the content appears [...]
