Chioma Ude, founder of the African Film Festival (AFRIFF), made a recent appearance on Accelerate TV’s ‘The Maverick’ show and while on the show revealed that she would be quitting production of the AFRIFF festival next year. Ude says she is “losing grip of the festival,” she has “very little say” and explains the event …
40 Lessons from AFRIFF 2014: My Thoughts on Nollywood, African Cinema, Lawyers and AFRIFF.
Last year, the media was agog with the news of the success of Chioma Ude’s week-long AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (AFRIFF). I rued my inability to attend and promised I would attend the 2014 edition. Fast forward to 2014; the publicity was top-notch and anyone not living under a rock was overdosed on information concerning …