Abuja International Film Festival

The Abuja international film festival would afford the Abuja auephiles an opportunity to experience a feast of top films from around the world; fresh films with cutting edge approaches to the Cinematic art of story telling, most of which are proudly, premiere screenings in Nigeria.
The festival is a four- (4) day event with workshops and panel discussion featuring local and international filmmakers. Abuja has over the course of the last one-year demonstrated positive moves towards stimulating the film industry in this city and in this region.
The festival thus has an expanded programme of panel discussions and workshops, an ambit of screening venues, the enriching presence of filmmakers, and of course a fantastic array of films which all contribute towards ensuring that the Abuja International film festival is a Cinematic celebration to remember.
See Abuja International film festival Guidelines.

African Film Festival

The launch of the Africa Union marks the beginning of a new era in the continent’s history. Its formation is an expression of the political will and collective wisdom of African statement and a determination by the African people to embrace Unity in diversity.
To complement the African Union’s objective is the need to have the African film festival. The festival will showcase a variety of thought provoking and socially relevant African films with a view of bringing into perspective the objectives of the African Union Most of this films are films which have broken the mould and redefined the way we perceive ourselves and the world around us.
They are all films that portray the uniqueness of African history and potentials.
The African film festival will allow the public the opportunity of to partake in the celebration of the technical mastery and distinctive story telling ability of African filmmakers.

West African Movie Festival

The growing interest and popularity of the video phenomenon in the West African sub region cannot be ignored considering the huge production capacity of this region whose major production nations are Nigeria and Ghana.
Recently, the FAD for producing movies in this region has extended to other neighboring countries in the sub region like Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia… this trend cuts across language barrier as the growing interest is to make a film.
The need for a searchlight and promotion of this trend has necessitated the formation of the West African movie festival which is basically an avenue to showcase and promote the richly endowed talents in this region through an annual festival. A sub region where conflict and poverty is endemic, the potential of film becomes enormous. It’s development will however require strategic initiatives and careful planning by stakeholders… these has therefore given rise to seminars and panel discussions to appraise issues that can contribute to the development of the industry in the region.

Annual Africa Movie Summit

The Annual African movie summit is basically an initiative of the Naija film festival organisation. The submit will bring together an array of African filmmakers and stakeholders to discuss and initiate solutions to the development, promotion and protection of the continents Cinematic Industry.
An important element of the submit will be daily public forums where local and visiting film experts will introduce and contextualise discussions for four (4) days.
These seminars will:
Explore ways to accelerate the development of film industries across Africa
Stimulate film literacy in local populations.
Address challenges of language
Examine entry barriers to the industry
Unfold ideas for exchange between the far-flung countries on this continent.
Discuss mechanism of bringing film into the mainstream economic life of Africa.
The importance of film in shaping and expressing cultural identity.
Developing the commercial viability of African film - the role of NEPAD.
African Approaches of issues of production
Film for All: Development in Africa.