Editor's Note: Chika Anadu's directorial debut "B for Boy" is now streaming on Netflix - a multiple award-winning film (AFI Fest Audience Award; Seattle International Film Festival New Director's Showcase Special Jury Prize) that I strongly recommended. Here's our interview with her first published a year ago. And then read Nijla's AFI fest review of the film here. *** I first had the privilege of meeting Nigerian filmmaker Chika Anadu at Cannes Film Festival in 2011. Privileged/saddled with my yellow press badge (the lowest of the low grade of press badge - it was only after a few days that I realised that queuing in front of the Palais first thing every morning...
- 9/23/2015
- by Wendy Okoi-Obuli
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: Chika Anadu's directorial debut "B for Boy" is now available on Mubi.com, the filmmaker informs us. Here's our interview with her... I first had the privilege of meeting Nigerian filmmaker Chika Anadu at Cannes Film Festival in 2011. Privileged/saddled with my yellow press badge (the lowest of the low grade of press badge - it was only after a few days that I realised that queuing in front of the Palais first thing every morning was Not the best, or only way for a yellow badge holder to get to see the films premiering that evening), non-plussed at the prospect of not actually getting to see all the films on my list when I wanted to see them, I wandered...
- 11/6/2014
- by Wendy Okoi-Obuli
- ShadowAndAct
Editor's Note: Chika Anadu's "B for Boy" is now available on Mubi.com, the filmmaker informs us. Here's our review... What is the worth of a womb? In Chika Anadu’s feature debut, "B for Boy," a woman’s womb becomes the source of great expectation for the birth of a son. It also becomes the source of great disdain, frustration, and stigma. Anadu explores the idea that a woman, her womb and a birth could somehow be wrong if a boy is not born. It is an honest, affecting portrayal of the ways that culture, religion, and patriarchy combine to both taint and question the very natural birthing process. Amaka, played powerfully by newcomer Uche Nwadili, is an...
- 11/6/2014
- by Nijla Mumin
- ShadowAndAct
The Colours of the Nile International Film Festival (Coniff) ran this past month, from March 24-31, with 48 films from around the African continent. The festival screened several projects that S&A has covered, including Chika Anadu's B for Boy, Kenneth Gyang's Confusion Na Wa, Soussaba Cisse's Rumours of War, David Tosh Gitonga's Nairobi Half Life, and Judy Kibinge's Something Necessary. From Mali, Rumours of War (Ngunu Ngunu Kan), directed by Soussaba Cisse won the Best Feature Film Award, Best Cinematography and Original Soundtrack at the 2nd annual film festival. The jury praised Rumours for "capturing in a...
- 4/7/2014
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
The Colours of the Nile International Film Festival (Coniff) returns March 24-31 with 48 films from around the African continent. The festival will screen quite a few projects we've covered on this site, including Chika Anadu's B for Boy, Kenneth Gyang's Confusion Na Wa, Soussaba Cisse's Rumours of War, David Tosh Gitonga's Nairobi Half Life, and Judy Kibinge's Something Necessary. More from the press release below: "The festival provides an opportunity to showcase some of the latest films by African filmmakers in its competition sections and to introduce audiences also to older films that they may not have had the opportunity to see, out of competition, including...
- 3/24/2014
- by Jai Tiggett
- ShadowAndAct
A month ago AFI Fest 2013 awarded Nigerian filmmaker Chika Anadu's feature film debut, B For Boy, with the Breakthrough award, which was accompanied by a $5,000 cash prize. Developed at the Cannes Cinefondation Residence Program, the drama, an elegant realist drama that questions Nigeria’s gender divide as a middle-class woman resorts to desperate measures after a miscarriage, made its debut at the BFI in London this year. Wendy interviewed Chika last month. If you missed that conversation, click Here to read it. She's definitely one to watch. And also Nijla reviewed B For Boy after its AFI Fest screening,...
- 12/13/2013
- by Natasha Greeves
- ShadowAndAct
AFI Fest 2013 presented by Audi today announced the features and short films receiving this year’s Audience and Jury Awards. Congratulations are in order for Nigerian filmmaker Chika Anadu whose feature film debut, B For Boy, won the Breakthrough award, which is accompanied by a $5,000 cash prize. Developed at the Cannes Cinefondation Residence Program in Paris, the drama, an elegant realist drama that questions Nigeria’s gender divide as a middle-class woman resorts to desperate measures after a miscarriage, made its debut at the BFI in London this year. A few weeks ago, we featured Chika Anadu's short film titled The...
- 11/14/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
AFI Fest announced the winners for the audience and jury awards on Wednesday. The Rocket, Australia's foreign film Oscar submission; The Selfish Giant, made in the UK; We Gotta Get Out of This Place, an American indie film directed by Zeke Hawkins and Simon Hawkins; and B for Boy, a Nigerian film, received Audience Awards. Grand Jury Awards were presented to Butter Lamp in the Live Action Short category, and The Places Where We Lived in the Animated Short category. Special Jury Award winners were Balcony and Syndromeda. Some of the award-winning films will screen again Wednesday at the
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- 11/14/2013
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AFI Fest 2013 presented by Audi, a program of the American Film Institute, today announced the remaining sections and films that will screen in the festival’s World Cinema, American Independents, Breakthrough, Midnight, Cinema’s Legacy and Presentations programs. AFI Fest, which redefines Hollywood today as a place where icons and emerging artists bring audiences together to experience global cinema in the movie capital of the world, will take place November 7 through 14 at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
World Cinema showcases the most anticipated and prize-winning international films of the year, the American Independents section features work by U.S. filmmakers, Breakthrough highlights work discovered only through the blind submission process, Midnight’s selections tend toward the macabre and Cinema’s Legacy highlights restorations and classic films.
This year’s program includes the return of several filmmakers to AFI Fest...
World Cinema showcases the most anticipated and prize-winning international films of the year, the American Independents section features work by U.S. filmmakers, Breakthrough highlights work discovered only through the blind submission process, Midnight’s selections tend toward the macabre and Cinema’s Legacy highlights restorations and classic films.
This year’s program includes the return of several filmmakers to AFI Fest...
- 10/22/2013
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Polish director honoured for 'courageous' tale looking at the legacy of the Holocaust in his homeland
• Review: four stars for Ida
British-based director Pawel Pawlikowski's latest film, Ida, took the top prize at the close of the London film festival on Saturday night.
The Observer's former film critic Philip French announced the Best Film award, saying: "The jury greatly admired Ida, the first film made in his native Poland by a director who came to prominence while living in Britain. We were deeply moved by a courageous film that handles, with subtlety and insight, a painfully controversial historical situation – the German occupation and the Holocaust – which continues to resonate."
The Guardian's film critic, Peter Bradshaw, was one of many who welcomed Pawlikowski's new work last week. Coming after the director's acclaimed Last Resort, from 2000, and My Summer of Love, made in 2004, it was, he wrote, "a small gem, tender and bleak,...
• Review: four stars for Ida
British-based director Pawel Pawlikowski's latest film, Ida, took the top prize at the close of the London film festival on Saturday night.
The Observer's former film critic Philip French announced the Best Film award, saying: "The jury greatly admired Ida, the first film made in his native Poland by a director who came to prominence while living in Britain. We were deeply moved by a courageous film that handles, with subtlety and insight, a painfully controversial historical situation – the German occupation and the Holocaust – which continues to resonate."
The Guardian's film critic, Peter Bradshaw, was one of many who welcomed Pawlikowski's new work last week. Coming after the director's acclaimed Last Resort, from 2000, and My Summer of Love, made in 2004, it was, he wrote, "a small gem, tender and bleak,...
- 10/20/2013
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Other winners honoured at the glitzy ceremony included Anthony Chen for Ilo Ilo, and Starred Up screenwriter Jonathan Asser.
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida has been crowned the Best Film at the 57th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-20).
It saw off competition from the likes of Richard Ayoade’s The Double, Peter Landesman’s JFK drama Parkland and Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson (click here for full list).
Ida stars newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska opposite Polish star Agata Kulesza in the story of a novice nun coming face-to-face with her family’s past in 1960s Poland.
It marks the first Polish-language film for Warsaw-born British filmmaker Pawlikowski, best known for The Last Resort and BAFTA-award winning My Summer of Love.
The film previously won the Fipresci International Critics’ Award at the Toronto International Film Festival last month and the top prize at Poland’s Gdynia Film Festival.
Ida is a co-production...
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida has been crowned the Best Film at the 57th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-20).
It saw off competition from the likes of Richard Ayoade’s The Double, Peter Landesman’s JFK drama Parkland and Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson (click here for full list).
Ida stars newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska opposite Polish star Agata Kulesza in the story of a novice nun coming face-to-face with her family’s past in 1960s Poland.
It marks the first Polish-language film for Warsaw-born British filmmaker Pawlikowski, best known for The Last Resort and BAFTA-award winning My Summer of Love.
The film previously won the Fipresci International Critics’ Award at the Toronto International Film Festival last month and the top prize at Poland’s Gdynia Film Festival.
Ida is a co-production...
- 10/19/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
★★★☆☆ Umut Dağ's Kuma (2013) brought the unconventional marital arrangement of second wives into UK cinemas earlier this year to impressive effect, and the practice appears again in Chika Anadu's B for Boy (2013). A markedly differing scenario to Kuma, this potential successor is in place to take over spousal duties should the current wife fail in her familial responsibilities. It's just one aspect of Anadu's heartfelt maternal drama that tackles the considerable pressures placed on Nigerian women to bare sons. Amaka (Uche Nwadili) has a loving husband in Nonso (Nonso Odogwu) as well as an adorable daughter.
Female offspring do not, however, make suitable heirs and there is a great sense of expectation that the heavily pregnant Amaka's second child will be the much-desired boy. The couple's relative maturity has put Nonso's traditional family - specifically his overbearing Mama (Ngozi Nwaneto) - on edge. As a precaution, a new young wife has been arranged for Nonso,...
Female offspring do not, however, make suitable heirs and there is a great sense of expectation that the heavily pregnant Amaka's second child will be the much-desired boy. The couple's relative maturity has put Nonso's traditional family - specifically his overbearing Mama (Ngozi Nwaneto) - on edge. As a precaution, a new young wife has been arranged for Nonso,...
- 10/13/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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