{"id":3333,"date":"2013-09-11T20:11:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T20:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2015-08-12T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T09:05:09","slug":"the-2nd-african-women-in-film-forum-takes-places-23rd-25th-september-in-accra-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/the-2nd-african-women-in-film-forum-takes-places-23rd-25th-september-in-accra-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2nd African Women in Film Forum takes places 23rd-25th September in Accra, Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<span lang=\"en\">The 2<sup>nd<\/sup> African Women in Film Forum (AWIFF) will take place from the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> to 25<sup>th<\/sup> of September in Accra, Ghana. The African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF) convenes this event in partnership with Alliance Fran\u00e7aise Accra, Brand Woman Africa, National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI), Institut Francais and the Lufodo Academy of Performing Arts in Nigeria. \u00a0The theme for this year\u2019s AWIFF is \u2018<i>Creating Compelling Social Justice Content for Film and Television<\/i>\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Speakers include Ade Solanke, who wrote the screenplay for Nigerian director Tunde Kelani&#8217;s forthcoming film, <i>Dazzling Mirage; <\/i>Akosua Adoma Owusu, Director of <i>KWAKU ANANSE; <\/i>Amaka Igwe who has to her credit production of over 400 hours of TV programming and movies<i>; <\/i>Anita Afonu, Director of <i>Perished Diamonds; <\/i>Anita Erskine, Host of <i>Making of a Mogul; <\/i>Dr Beti Ellerson, Director for the Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema<i>; <\/i>Dr Sionne Neely, Knowledge Management Specialist at AWDF<i>; <\/i>Dr Yaba Blay, Assistant Teaching Professor of Africana Studies at Drexel University and Consulting Producer for CNN\u2019s Black in America 5 \u2013 <i>Who is Black in America<\/i>?<i>; <\/i>Fran\u00e7ois d&#8217;Artemare, Founder of Les Films de l&#8217;Apr\u00e8s-Midi<i>; <\/i>Korkor Amarteifio, Associate Director of the Institute for Music and Development<i>; <\/i>Kwaw Ansah, Director of <i>Love Brewed in the African Pot; <\/i>Lodi Matsetela, script writer and producer of Society, originally flighted on South African Broadcasting Corporation<i>; <\/i>Prof. Linus Abraham, Rector of NAFTI<i>; <\/i>Sarah Bouyain, Director of <i>Notre Etrangere<\/i>\/<i>The Place in Between; <\/i>Sarah Mukasa, Director of Programmes, AWDF;<i> <\/i>Sefi Atta, playwright and author of <i>Everything Good Will Come; <\/i>St\u00e9phanie Soleansky, Cultural Affairs Attach\u00e9 at Institut Fran\u00e7ais du Ghana<i>; <\/i>Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of <i>Nervous Conditions; <\/i>Vicentia Akwetey, Dean of Studies, NAFTI<i>; <\/i>Veronica Q-Nai, writer and director behind <i>A Call at Midnight <\/i>and<i> <\/i>Yaba Badoe, Director and Co-Producer of <i>The Witches of Gambaga<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Communications Specialist, AWDF states \u201cThe general public in Accra, Ghana can participate in the AWIFF by attending the free film festival.\u00a0 On the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> of September we will be screening \u2018On The Border\u2019 by Tsitsi Dangarembga and \u2018The Witches of Gambaga\u2019 by Yaba Badoe at Alliance Fran\u00e7aise Accra from 6pm.\u00a0 On the 24<sup>th<\/sup> of September we will be screening \u2018Perished Diamonds\u2019 by Anita Afonu and \u2018Notre Etrangere\/The Place in Between\u2019 by Sarah Bouyain at NAFTI from 6pm. 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