The new year 2018 started with fanfares and vigils of thanksgiving in hundreds of thousands of churches all over the world followed by celebration and jubilation at parties on the streets and clubs.  After the holidays,  business resumes from tomorrow Tuesday with many upcoming events. And the first international film festival of the new year is the 15th London Short Film Festival (LSFF) taking place from 12th - 21st Jan 2018. The film festival will celebrate the iconic genius of Ngozi Onwurah, the Nigerian born British filmmaker on January 17. As the first Black British woman filmmaker to have a feature film released in UK cinemas the festival will celebrate Ngozi’s legacy with a screening of early works and panel discussion in Ngozi Onwurah: Short Films on Wed 17 Jan, 8:30pm at ICA. Ngozi Onwurah was born in 1966 in Nigeria to a Nigerian father, and a white British mother, Madge Onwurah. She has two siblings, Simon Onwurah and Labour MP Chi Onwurah. As children,...

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Photo Credit: Steemkr . From the third edition of the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series coming out soon. "The film industry of the 21st century can benefit from Blockchain technology, an innovation that can digitally support a dynamic and connected global network of content producers, distributors and audiences." ~ Paul Forrest. Since 2013, publishing the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series by the grace of Almighty God has not made millions of naira, but it has been great to be the Publisher and Editor of the first and only series of books on the Nigerian film industry with versions in hardcover, paperback and @amazon Kindle, documenting the history of film production in Nigeria since 1926 to date and the first book to celebrate the beautiful and wonderful actresses in #Nollywood and #Kannywood; the first Nigerian #Hollywood star, Orlando Martins and the top 20 filmmakers in Nigeria. The third edition has taken three years to produce, because I published two other important books; T...

#SheDecides in 2017 This year, 88,195 of you took action to call on global leaders to stand up for girls and women and support their sexual and reproductive health. Wow! The results were phenomenal, with numerous governments announcing nearly US$500 million to make sure that girls and women have access to all of the care and services they need and want. And there is still much more to be done to get us to a world where every girl and woman has power over her own body, without question. This July on the eve of the G20 in Hamburg, the Governments of Norway, Belgium, Netherlands and foundations committed over $172 million (USD) on the Global Citizen stage to ensure that women’s health is something She Decides. And later, the Government of Denmark stepped up and committed to double their funding for women’s health to a whopping $110 million USD. This is where the SheDecides movement comes in, and we need you to join us!

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HALLELUJAH! We thank Almighty God JEHOVAH for protecting and saving our life to welcome another Christmas Day! We are glad and grateful to be alive and well. We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2018! Cheers all the way! We wish you a beautiful Merry Christmas and prosperous Happy New Year 2018. See JESUS Christ, The Priceless Gift of God Click here to read the message .

Until Nigerian filmmakers in #Nollywood and #Kannywood make movies that #Fox, #WarnerBros, @Sony, @Disney, @DreamWorks and others will nod and bid to acquire, let us stop all the noise and bragging rights over our movies making ordinary US$1m at the box office after more than 20 years of Nollywood when South Africa's "The Gods Must Be Crazy" of 1980 made US$100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars) the same year that popular celebrity gossip blogger, Linda Ikeji was born and I was just completing my secondary school education at St. Gregory's College in Lagos. Then came "District 9" of 2009, the science fiction action horror film directed by Neill Blomkamp of South Africa with a budget of US$30m and grossed US$210.8 million! And got four Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing. Should I continue? So South Africa is the biggest film industry in Africa with two Oscars in the bag and Sout...

The black and beautiful Ghanaian multiple award winning filmmaker, Dame Amma Asante, MBE, is our Black Filmmaker of the Year for her outstanding historical romantic drama, "A United Kingdom" acquired by Fox Searchlight for North America. The screenplay was written by Guy Hibbert, based on the true-life romance between Sir Seretse Khama and his wife, Ruth Williams Khama. David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike played the leading roles of Seretse and Ruth. In June, Amma Asante was honoured by Queen Elizabeth II with the highly esteemed award of Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). She received the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) from Prince Charles at the Buckingham Palace in November. "A United Kingdom" is a Pathé, BBC Films, BFI, Ingenious presentation with the participation of Canal + and Cine + of a Yoruba Saxon/Harbinger Pictures/Perfect Weekend/Film United production. This year, award-winning director @AmmaAsante joined us for an...

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 Independent Films Get Nominated Awards Season is officially underway and the independents are already garnering numerous accolades. The following independent films have been nominated thus far for the Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and/or Independent Spirit Awards.

Ingrid Nilsen Joins Elizabeth Banks In Release Of Baobab Studios' Animated VR Film 'ASTEROIDS!' Highly Anticipated Film from the Creators of Madagascar and the Emmy Award-Winning VR Animated Film INVASION! Launches Today SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Baobab Studios, the leading immersive animation studio, today debuted the highly anticipated VR animated film, ASTEROIDS! with Ingrid Nilsen as the voice of Peas. This role marks Ingrid's first foray into VR work alongside Elizabeth Banks.

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PRESS RELEASE iflix Celebrates 10 Billion Minutes Streamed in 2017! Now available to over one billion consumers across 24 territories throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa, iflix has established itself as the clear market leader in video streaming CAPE TOWN, South Africa, December 18, 2017/ -- iflix ( www.iflix.com ), the world’s leading entertainment service for emerging markets, is thrilled to share its latest milestone – 10 billion minutes streamed across its platform in 2017. The achievement, equivalent to more than 19,000 years of content streamed, marks an incredible uptake in user engagement, with cumulative viewing minutes up well over 400% from three billion total minutes streamed at the end of 2016. iflix also maintains one of the highest active mobile viewing durations of any service globally, with an average of 2.5-2.75 hours per session.

The Most Popular Online Review of a Nigerian Film Festival The most popular online review of a Nigerian film festival is "5th Eko International Film Festival Ends With Maria Blumencron's "Jesus and the Vanished Women" written by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima and published by Nigerians Report Online on https://nigeriansreportng.blogspot.com.ng/2014/11/5th-eko-international-film-festival_24.html . It has been viewed more than 40, 438 times and still counting. The expository documentary film "Jesus and the Vanished Women" (Jesus und die verschwundenen Frauen) closed the 5th annual Eko International Film Festival Sunday night at the Silverbird Cinemas, Silverbird Galleria on Victoria Island, Lagos. It was one of the three special films from makido Film of Vienna in German and dubbed in English for English audiences. The other two makido films included "Diplomatic Liaisons - Mistresses of the Vienna Congress - Sex, Lies and Diplomacy"(Der Wiener ...

Angelina Jolie's Film for Foreign-Language Oscar at the 90th Academy Awards Hollywood diva, Angelina Jolie is Representing Cambodia for the Foreign-Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. Jolie's biopic thriller,  First They Killed My Father is in competition for the final nominations in the Foreign-Language Film category at the 90th Academy Awards. She is representing Cambodia, because she has dual U.S./Cambodian citizenship. She filmed "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" in Cambodia in 2001, where she adopted her first child Maddox Chivan from an orphanage in Battambang in 2002.