Lagos Hosts First Yoruba Films Festival

Another celebration has come for practitioners in the Yoruba film industry as the city of Lagos hosts the first Yoruba Film Festival in 2013. We has reliably learnt that the film festival will match up with what is obtainable in other international and popular film festivals across the globe. Organising this event is top show promoter and organiser, Tunde Oshinibosi well known as Laface. He is the brain behind the Yoruba Movie Academy Award, which debutted in 2012 and held in Ogun State in June 2012. The Yoruba Film Festival, according to information available to us, is aimed at projecting the culture and tourism potential of the mega city of Lagos through the overwhelming development of the Yoruba film industry. The Festival will bring together industry stakeholders across board as well as international facilitators as they come together to chart a new part for the Yoruba film industry; the true pioneers of today’s Nollywood. The Festival sessions will include a pot-purri of activities like all other major film festivals across the world i.e. screenings, discussion panels, business sessions, workshops and seminars, comedy, concert and gala night amongst others. It is also aimed at attracting government and corporate financial interest to the economic realities and the job creation opportunities that the Yoruba film industry offers. Solutions to major problems affecting the growth of the industry i.e. piracy, distribution etc, will also be discussed. Laface stated that the Yoruba Film Festival theme is in line with women empowerment, buttressing the saying 'empower the woman and feed the world'. He therefore called on the government and the general public for the success of the project.