By Don Peter Okoro
Inside Nollywood Film Festival And Award. ( INFFAA) is set to add a new vista to the movie and entertainment industry by hosting a multiple event which includes a Film Festival, Award Nite, Modelling Pageantry, Master Class and Launching Of The Inside Nollywood Magazine.
Addressing Pressmen drawn from selected Media Houses, the Chief Executive Officer of INFFAA,Mr. Obinna Muoma, described Inside Nollywood, which is the Corporate Body orgainising the Festival as: “” an audio visual outfit staffed with skilled professionals, creative innovators, seasoned developers and outstanding content analysts for content development.”
Speaking on the forthcoming Movie Festival, Mr. Muoma stated: “”Inside Nollywood Film Festival And Award (INFFAA) is created to celebrate African Creative Minds in the Entertainment Industry. It also creates platforms where Filmmakers all over the world especially Africans meet and share ideas. The theme of the Festival is: ‘Reawakening Our Cultural Values Through Motion Pictures'”.
Continuing, Mr. Muoma, described the theme as drawing on the principles of creating original African Contents, saying that being African is a bond that goes beyond geography,birth or lineage, as people of African origin are spread across the globe and Africa is also a proud home to many non-Africans.
He pointed out that Iside Nollywood Film Festival And Award deliberately commits to the ideals of empowement and creative engagement. Through it’s investment in the development of local creative contents, it keeps faith with the next generation of potentials which abound throughout the continent.
INFFAA will be a 3 Day Fun Filled Empowering and Enlightening event that will be attended by personalities from all walks of life, including the Governor of Anambra State,His Excellency Chief Dr. Willie Obiano,Top Government Functionaries, Traditional Rulers, Business Gurus, Actors and Actresses from Nigeria other countries, including Arab Nations and other Celebrities.”
The Project Supervisor,Mr. Ogemdi Udegbunam and Project Coordinator,Mr Raymond Anyaeji, Publicity Secretary,Mr. Uzor Okenwa, Veteran Actor Obi Dike and Nollywood Celebrity Ifunnaya Okeke were all unanimous in their assertion that the event is bound to revitalize and reposition the movie Industry in the right direction as over 1,500 Talents are being targeted to be harnessed at the event. Some of the notable Stars to be recognized are. Olu Jacobs,Pete Edochie, Richard Mofe Damijo,Zack Orji, Clarion Chukwurah, Genevieve Nnaji, Mercy Johnson, Omotola Jolade Ekeinde, Patience Ozokwor, Ngozi Ezeonu and a host of others.
The Project Supervisor,Mr. Ogemdi Udegbunam stated that the event is the first of it’s kind in Anambra State and beckons on interested individuals and corporate bodies to call for partnership on: 0810 796 8082.
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