Nigerian filmmaker, writer and teacher ,
Onyeka Nwelue, has been appointed a member of the Jury for the 2017 CinemAfrica
Film Festival, happening in Stockholm, Sweden from the 22nd till the 26th of
February, alongside Sarah Inyal Lawal, Ulrika Flink and David Nzinga.
In an email from the Festival Director, Dina Afkhampour to Mr. Nwelue, she says;
In an email from the Festival Director, Dina Afkhampour to Mr. Nwelue, she says;
“I am so pleased to that you have agreed to be
the official jury for the 2017 edition of CinemAfrica FIlm Festival. Each one
of you has a unique background and capacity that we found potent in
combination.”
Mr. Nwelue is
award-winning author of The
Abyssinian Boy, a novel about a Nigerian woman married to an Indian man,
which is set majorly in India, where he lived and where he is a Visiting
Assistant Professor of African Studies at Manipur University.
He currently
lives in Athens, Ohio, where he is a Research Fellow at Ohio Uiversity. His
latest offering, Hip-Hop is Only
for Children has been described by one of India’s finest writers,
Shobhaa De as ‘beguiling’ and ‘superbly researched.’
CinemAfrica is
a non-profit organisation that works towards spreading high-quality African and
diaspora cinema in Sweden. We show features, short films and documentaries and
act as a platform and a forum for African film in Sweden. We also work towards
increasing the amount of film shown in cinemas, during festivals and on
television, and to broaden DVD distribution networks. By showing African and
diaspora film we’re aiming at broadening the types of culture on offer in
Sweden and at increasing the knowledge Swedes have about African current affairs.
CinemAfrica’s
Film Festival started 1998 in Stockholm, and is now the largest festival for
African cinema in the Nordic countries. We invite current filmmakers and
participants in the public discourse to our festival to participate in seminars
and discussions around the films we show. CinemAfrica also conducts individual
screenings, film breakfasts and seminars. Additionally, we work with other
organisations and film festivals to enable them to show African film as part of
their programming.
Visit: www.http://cinemafrica.se
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