500 movies slated for screening at Coal City Film Festival
More than 500 movies across the world have been nominated to be premiered at the maiden Enugu Film festival also known as Coal City Film Festival.
Executive Director of the festival, Mr Uche Agbo, made the disclosure in a press briefing to announce the commencement of the festival from March 25th to 27th in Enugu.
The three days event would feature screenings, symposiums, tour trip, training and gala/award nite.
The festival will celebrate both indigenous and foreign filmmakers as well as already made films.
According to Agbo, the festival will open the doors of South-East, Nigeria through cultural exchange and cinematic experience as renowned Nollywood personalities such as Zack Orji, Segun Arinze, Patience Ozokwor, Lancelot Imaseun and others will be at the festival.
He said that many film festival enthusiasts and industry practitioners understand the global economical, brand advantage film festivals give to the localities to which they originate especially Enugu as the cradle of the film industry in Nigeria.
He noted that the festival, like its contemporaries all over the world would serve as a convergence between practising and independent filmmakers, industry leaders and practitioners within the South-East and the country.
“It is estimated that over 500 films have been cleared from over a thousand submissions from over 50 countries for screening at the Coal City Film Festival and a film, ‘Oluedo’ will be premiering in its first time at the festival,” Agbo disclosed.
He said that the opening ceremony of the festival would hold in the evening hours of March 25; with a red carpet between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. local time, and the actual opening by 6 p.m. at Diamond Cinema, Enugu.
The Executive Director said that for three-day running, there would be training for budding filmmakers at the National Museum; while there would also be seminars, symposia, a tour of tourist sites in the state.
Agbo added that registered participants would receive free and unlimited access to the activities.
NP/Confidence Okwuchi
