The Africa Film Academy is set to empower 1000 youths in its quest to promote capacity in different aspects of film making and promote the growth of the motion picture industry is set to train over 1000 youths across the continent over the next 12 months.

The first in the series of the trainings that will take place across the continent is scheduled for February 25th-26th in Lagos, Nigeria workshop with the theme SO YOU WANT TO ACT? will run master classes that will be led by notable resource persons and industry leaders which include multiple award winners and two-time AMAA winners, Joke Silva and Kunle Afolayan. Other resource persons include Mildred Okwo, Sonny Mcdon, Segun Arinze,Bond Emeruwa among others.

The SO YOU CAN ACT? SO YOU WANT TO ACT workshop will be held at University of Lagos


APPLY HERE TO ATTEND 'THE SO YOU CAN ACT COURSE'

The training modules will cover Basic Legal Knowledge for actors, Make-Up, Script Writing, Photography, Sound, Editing etc. Pictures by Debbinwe will bring the best hands and professionals in the business of show business to give students artistic, practical and business insight in how to make career in acting.

Interested participants can contact ken@ama-awards.com or call 07092634884 and 07092641859 for inquiries.

The workshop according to the Academy Coordinator for Ms.Tolani, will offer a basic fundamental knowledge for any young man and woman who are willing to pursue educational and professional career.

Interested workshop participants should please contact the numbers above for further information an make the payment of N5000 into the following bank account.

FINBANK
Africa Film Academy
N5000.00
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 101430000365001
text your paying in slip numbers with your name to 07092634884

Obi Emelonye’s new film, Mirror Boy, which has been showing at cinemas across the world, contains several striking similarities with the 2009 runaway bestseller, The Abyssinian Boy by Onyeka Nwelue.

The Abyssinian Boy, published by DADA Books in Nigeria in 2009 and Serene Woods in India in 2010, is the simple story of a 9 year-old David, who, on his trip from India to Nigeria with his parents, travels in dreams with an albino dwarf, Nfanfa who keeps appearing only to him.

Nigerian actress, who starred in Mirror Boy has described the film this way: “I was impressed with the way the writer spinned a whole lot around a simple story of mother and child and a spirit. It is told in such a way that you feel the three distinct characters. You feel the pain of a mother whose child is missing, you feel the trouble of an African boy born in the U.K now in search of an identity, and you feel the emotion of a reincarnated father who doesn’t want his biological child lost in the world of ‘missed identity’. It is the kind of story that touches you from the screen so I am not surprised at the success so far at the cinema’, she explained.

When reached on his cell phone and informed of the similarities between “Mirror Boy” and “The Abyssinian Boy”, Nwelue said, “No comment. I have seen the film.”

Nwelue has refused to comment further.

Nwelue, author of The Abyssinian Boy, was born on 31 January, 1988 in Nigeria and left for India when he was 18, where he wrote his first novel in 3 months. Three months after the release of the book by DADA Books, Lagos, Danish filmmaker, Lasse Lau indicated interest to buy the film rights, to be produced by KRAN Film, Belgium.
The Abyssinian Boy won the TM ALUKO Prize for First Book of Fiction, IBRAHIM TAHIR Prize for Fiction at the 2009 Abuja Writers’ Forum Literary Festival, nominated for the Creative Artist of the Year at the Future Awards 2010 and is being studied at universities and colleges across Nigeria, India and Hong Kong.

Emelonye, has been described as one of the new generation of Nigerian film directors taking the magic of ‘Nollywood’ to the wider world. ‘With his multi-disciplinary approach to filmmaking, his relentless creative drive and an uncanny sense of artistic style, Emelonye has also marked himself out as one of UK’s contemporary directors.’ He was at the final stages of being enrolled as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales when he abandoned legal practice to pursue his first love: film. However, he is said to ‘bring his stature as a lawyer and the attendant pragmatism to the chaotic world of film and productions.’

Emelonye’s debut, The Mirror Boy has grossed over N15million at Nigerian cinemas and is being published as a novel. He lives in Notting Hill, London with his wife, Amaka and their two children, D’Kachy and D’Richy.

Efforts to reach DADA Books publishers have failed.

Obi Emelonye’s new film, Mirror Boy, which has been showing at cinemas across the world, contains several striking similarities with the 2009 runaway bestseller, The Abyssinian Boy by Onyeka Nwelue.

The Abyssinian Boy, published by DADA Books in Nigeria in 2009 and Serene Woods in India in 2010, is the simple story of a 9 year-old David, who, on his trip from India to Nigeria with his parents, travels in dreams with an albino dwarf, Nfanfa who keeps appearing only to him.

Nigerian actress, Genevieve Nnaji, who starred in Mirror Boy has described the film this way: “I was impressed with the way the writer spinned a whole lot around a simple story of mother and child and a spirit. It is told in such a way that you feel the three distinct characters. You feel the pain of a mother whose child is missing, you feel the trouble of an African boy born in the U.K now in search of an identity, and you feel the emotion of a reincarnated father who doesn’t want his biological child lost in the world of ‘missed identity’. It is the kind of story that touches you from the screen so I am not surprised at the success so far at the cinema’, she explained.

When reached on his cell phone and informed of the similarities between “Mirror Boy” and “The Abyssinian Boy”, Nwelue said, “No comment. I have seen the film.”

Nwelue has refused to comment further.

Nwelue, author of The Abyssinian Boy, was born on 31 January, 1988 in Nigeria and left for India when he was 18, where he wrote his first novel in 3 months. Three months after the release of the book by DADA Books, Lagos, Danish filmmaker, Lasse Lau indicated interest to buy the film rights, to be produced by KRAN Film, Belgium.
The Abyssinian Boy won the TM ALUKO Prize for First Book of Fiction, IBRAHIM TAHIR Prize for Fiction at the 2009 Abuja Writers’ Forum Literary Festival, nominated for the Creative Artist of the Year at the Future Awards 2010 and is being studied at universities and colleges across Nigeria, India and Hong Kong.

Emelonye, has been described as one of the new generation of Nigerian film directors taking the magic of ‘Nollywood’ to the wider world. ‘With his multi-disciplinary approach to filmmaking, his relentless creative drive and an uncanny sense of artistic style, Emelonye has also marked himself out as one of UK’s contemporary directors.’ He was at the final stages of being enrolled as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales when he abandoned legal practice to pursue his first love: film. However, he is said to ‘bring his stature as a lawyer and the attendant pragmatism to the chaotic world of film and productions.’

Emelonye’s debut, The Mirror Boy has grossed over N15million at Nigerian cinemas and is being published as a novel. He lives in Notting Hill, London with his wife, Amaka and their two children, D’Kachy and D’Richy.

Efforts to reach DADA Books publishers have failed.




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