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Thursday 18 August 2016

Ooni of Ife Hosts Femi Adebayo, Fathia Balogun, Kemi Afolabi & Others [Photos]


Ooni of Ife Hosts Femi Adebayo, Fathia Balogun, Kemi Afolabi & Others [Photos]

The maiden edition of Yoruba Film Festival (YFF) has been slated to hold in November, 2016. The four-day film screening event to be hosted by Ooni of Ife, HRH Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, will take place at the cradle of the Yoruba race and the citadel of cultural tourism in South Western Nigeria, Ile Ife, Osun State.

The Yoruba Film Festival (YFF), according to the founder and initiator, Segun Omoworare is created to screen films with Yoruba theme. The festival, according to the organisers would exhibit industry interactions, features films, shorts, documentaries, conversations and awards in order to explore the Yoruba identity, the contemporary Yoruba experience in Nigeria and Africa and the richness of Yoruba culture in a diverse modern world.


The mission of the Yoruba Film Festival (YFF) is to offer a platform to promote outstanding films and videos that communicate positive, appropriate and accurate images of Yoruba people; expose the richness of the Yoruba historical and cultural heritage as preserved in films; celebrate and appreciate the creativity, imagination and hardwork of the Yoruba filmmakers; encourage filmmakers interaction and sharing of knowledge on innovations and developments; to support the growth of young, upwardly mobile and future Yoruba filmmakers; provide a forum for festival audiences to engage filmmakers in open and robust dialogue.

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