Peace Mission: Welcome to Nollywood
plus Q&A with Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima
Hosted by Zina Saro-Wiwa
Filmmaker: Dorothee Wenner
Featuring Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima
Germany / 2008 / 80 mins
ICA Cinema 2 Mon 9 Mar 6pm
Nigeria's Nollywood is now the world's third largest film industry after Hollywood and Bollywood. The film's protagonist, Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima, is one of its leading producers.
Peace Mission is a guided tour of Nollywood from one of the industry's major players: producer, filmmaker and founder of the African Movie Academy Awards, Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima. Fitting interviews in between conference calls, parties, and meetings, we get to know something about this thriving and surprising industry through the eyes of a woman determined to see the development of her continent through film.
Read Sophie Ivan's insightful review of Peace Mission on the BEV blog.
Dorothee Wenner
Dorothee Wenner was born in 1961 and has lived and worked in Berlin since 1988 as a freelance filmmaker, writer and curator. She has been on the selection committee of the International Forum of New Cinema since 1990 and serves as the Berlinale’s special representative for India and sub-Saharan Africa. From July 2004 to December 2005 she curated the EU-funded project Import Export: Cultural Transfer between India and Germany, Austria.Dorothee was the director of the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2006-07. Her documentary films include Hollywood Killed Me (1988), Germany-Outside In (Unser Ausland, 2002), Star Biz (2005), and Peace Mission (2008).
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Zina Saro-Wiwa is an award-winning film-maker, writer and broadcaster. For much of her career she has worked for BBC television and radio as a producer and presenter. Zina presented on BBC2s The Culture Show for three and a half years and prior to that has presented documentary series for Radio 4 and World Service. Last Spring she interviewed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe for BBC Radio 4. Zina has also worked as a producer on programmes such as Woman's Hour and You & Yours. Currently Zina is working as a documentary film-maker and has founded AfricaLab, a production company dedicated to changing the way the world sees Africa. Her most recent film entitled This Is My Africa features Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jon Snow, Colin Firth and Yinka Shonibare amongst others. The film is currently touring the globe at film-festivals to much acclaim and last Autumn won best documentary short at the International Black Docufest 2008. www.africalab.org
With support from the Commonwealth Foundation.
Screening in partnership with BFM International Film Festival.
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