Lights, Camera, Africa!

Lights, Camera, Africa! is a film festival which has been held annually in Lagos since 2011.

The festival was established by Ugoma Adegoke.[1] Hosted by The Life House, the inaugural Lights, Camera, Africa! was supported by New York's African Film Festival, Inc. and ran for three days, from 30 September – 2 October 2011.[2]

Annual editions
EditionDatesVenueThemeFilms shown
1st 30 September – 2 October 2011[2] The Life House A History of Independence; AVA; Burning in the Sun; Clouds Over Conakry; Cuba: An African Odyssey; Epilogue; One Small Step; One Way Touareg; Pumzi; Sex, Okra and Salted Butter; Soul Boy; The Lunatic; White Wedding
2nd 28 September – 1 October 2012 British Council and Southern Sun Hotel Shine Your Eye Big Man; Call Me Kuchu; Dr. Cruel; Driving With Fanon; Man on Ground; Stadium Hotel; Yoolé
3rd 28 September – 1 October 2013 Wheatbaker, British Council, Southern Sun Hotel, and Freedom Park Great Migrations Alaskaland; Black Africa White Marble; Confusion Na Wa; Congolese Dreams; Creation in Exile: Five filmmakers in conversation; Fela! in Lagos; Fincho; Footprints of my Other; Fuelling Poverty; Koukan Kourcia / The Cry of the Turtledoves; La Pirogue; The Marriage Factor; Microphone; Mugabe: Villain or Hero?; Olu Amoda: A Metallic Journey; An Oversimplification of Her Beauty; The Pilot and the Passenger; Pokou Ashanti Princess; RasTa! A Soul's Journey; Rolling Dollar: a Legend Unplugged; The Stuart Hall Project
4th 26 September – 1 October 2014[3] Federal Palace Hotel Legacy Over 30 movies from 14 countries, including: Oya, the Rise of the Orisha; The Supreme Prize
5th 30 September – 4 October 2015[4] Federal Palace Hotel Future Forward The Art of Ama Aida Aidoo; Beasts of the Southern Wild; Black Africa White Marble; Beat Girls; The Curse of Medea; Eighteam; Faaji Agba; Finding Fela; Gone Too Far; Horn Free Day; Head Gone; Henna; The Legacy of Rubies; Mr Adams; Nollywood; Olu Amoda: A Metallic Journey; Once; Prey; Saworoide; Sex, Okra and Salted Butter; The Sim; Sobukwe: A Great Soul; Soko Sonko / The Market King; Timbuktu; White Wedding
6th 30 September – 2 October 2016[5] Federal Palace Hotel Music Makes the People Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughi; Anton; Biodun Olaku: Nigerian Painter; Cholo; Destino; Gidi Blues; House Of Nwapa; I Shot Bi Kidude; In the Eye of the Spiral; Intore / The Chosen; Lagos: The Birth Of A City Of Style; Miniyamba / Walking Blues; No Good Turn; New York I Love You; Olive; Too Black to be French?; Towards Tenderness; The Amazing Nina Simone; The Other Side of the Atlantic; The Return; The Sense of Touch; Tunde
7th 29 September – 1 October 2017 Federal Palace Hotel Reset 80; Afia Attack; The Aftermath of the Inauguration of the Public Toilet at Kilometer 375; Akatakpo!!! The Legend of Tony Odili; Bad Market; Bariga Sugar; Borders; A Hotel Called Memory; I Heard it Through The Grapevine; Kalushi; Kanye Kanye; Madama Esther; Omode Meta Nsere; An Opera of the World; A Place for Myself; Shadeism: Digging Deeper; Vaya
8th 28–30 September 2018[6] Muson Centre Who Do You Think You Are? Agwaetiti Obiuto; Asmat; Baby Mamas; Cafe of Dreams; The Delivery Boy; Granma; Hidden Treasures; Ignorance of Blood; Iko Ndu; Kasala!; Lagos: The birth of a city of style 1861-1967; Negritude: A Dialogue Between Wole Soyinka and Senghor; The Lost Cafe; Lucky; Our Africa; Sidi Ilujinie; Town Crier; U ME; Zerzura;
9th 27–29 September 2019 Muson Centre Tales By Moonlight About Love; Call Me By My Name; Company Yaya; Daughters of Chibok; A Gender; A Kalabanda Ate My Homework; Land of Gods; My Friend Fela; Ogbu-Oja Eze; Orange City; Ordinary Fellows; The Lost Okoroshi; Wall Flower; Wrong Con

References
  1. Alithnayn Abdulkareem, YNaija presents: The 100 most influential Nigerians in Film in 2019, YNaija, 1 November 2019.
  2. Damilare Aiki, "Experience African Cinema at the 'Lights, Camera, Africa!' Film Festival – 30th September to 2nd October 2011", BellaNaija, 30 September 2011.
  3. Africa: Big Brother Africa Reveals Hotshots, AllAfrica.com, 28 September 2014.
  4. Lights, Camera Africa!!! film festival kicks off this September, pulse.ng, 7 September 2915.
  5. 23 films selected for 6th edition of film festival, pulse.ng, 23 September 2016.
  6. 5 Films We Are Excited To See At This Year's Lights, Camera, Africa Film Festival, Konbini, 28 September 2018
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