What Exactly Is All This Sex Doing in Blood Sisters?
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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Features, reviews, and essays on film and TV shows from across the African continent
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
5 days ago
My Father’s Shadow dual-citizenship tension isn’t an isolated conversation in African cinema. From the early 2000’s to date, there have been a select number of African titles with similar tension.
1 month ago
Intentional storytelling are the purposeful creative choices that involve a smooth blend of narrative, aesthetic style and themes in a manner that enhances meaning and overall appeal.
4 months ago
Afolabi Olalekan’s Freedom Way written and produced by Blessing Uzzi, takes a lengthy and laborious 90 minutes to drive home a single point: our lives, as humans and Nigerians, especially, are connected. Uzzi’s script assembles a varied cast to make this point: the co-founders of Easy Go Ride, Themba (Jesse Suntele), Tayo (Ogaranya), and Edi […]
11 months ago
The Yoruba people have a saying: “Sátídé ti ọ dà, àti Jímọ́h láti mọ́.” Although there are different iterations of this saying, what they loosely translate to is that tomorrow’s greatness is foreshadowed in the details of today. This often-recycled axiom captures my thoughts after watching the trailer for Akay Mason’s Red Circle which has […]
12 months ago
The U.S. distribution rights to Olive Nwosu’s Sundance-Winning Lady has been sold by HanWay Films and acquired by Cohen Media Group. Lady is the directorial debut feature-length project of the writer-director. The film screened at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in January and won the Special Jury Award for Acting Ensemble, had its European premiere […]
1 month ago
Watermelon Pictures has announced the US and UK theatrical release of BAFTA-winning director Andy Mundy-Castle’s documentary project, Shoot The People.
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Watching Gingerrr in retrospect, the zero-win AMVCA outcome hardly feels shocking.
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Obasi is set for a month-long Seoul stay to work on a new feature described as a story bridging African and Korean cultures, with a theatrical release planned. Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary will serve as executive producers through their Revelations Entertainment banner.
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The Durban FilmMart, Africa’s leading film finance and co-production market, has announced 36 African film projects for its 17th edition, scheduled for 9 to 12 October in Durban, South Africa. The market will present these 36 projects, including 8 animation, 10 fiction features, 10 documentary features, and 7 series projects in development at the Pitch […]
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The Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards night took on a new height of splendour and legacy as stars and personalities converged in celebration of the strides African cinema has come. And as a result of the remarkable success of African Cinema, Johnnie Walker joined lovers of the form and other dignitaries in celebrating the achievements […]
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This year’s pool of Best Music/Score nominees was competitive, representing a broad range of talent from within and beyond the continent and consistency that few other categories at the 13-year-old award show can lay claim to.
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This issue remains very much on the table. Creatives have always been vulnerable because of the fragile nature of their brainchild — intellectual property (IP). Unfortunately, this vulnerability has become even more harrowing with the fast-pace growth of digital technology and the consequential rise of a fast-fashion culture, one in which legal protection, enforcement, and, […]
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