Founded in 2010 and now in its 9th edition, the annual iREPRESENT (iREP) Film Festival will this year be held in Lagos from 21 to 24 March, keeping in with its tradition of attracting the brightest minds in film from the African continent and beyond. Since its inception, iREP’s mission has been to celebrate the best of African documentary film.
South African international film festival RapidLion, which recently took place in its Johannesburg home at the start of March, featured an impressive line-up of African, African diaspora and Brics films, such as In The Light Of The Fire by South AFrican filmmaker Rafeeqah Galant, Nigerian Prince by Faraday Okoro and Set Yourself On Fire by Darnell Lamont Walker from the US.
This year’s Academy Awards celebrated incredible and historical wins, especially from black creatives. These are the names you should know.
Ruth E. Carter
Ruth E. Carter became the first black woman to win an Oscar for Costume Design for her work on the award-winning 2018 Marvel film Black Panther.
Hannah Beachler
Award-winning actor Daniel Radcliffe has recently been spotted on the streets of Pretoria, South Africa. Wearing retro spectacles, flared trouser and old-school shirts, photos of the Harry Potter star having been popping all over social media.
It was recently revealed that the English actor has been in South Africa’s capital city shooting his latest film based on the memoir Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison by Tim Jenkin, a South African political prisoner and writer.