The 4th Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival Friday 26 September - Wednesday 1 October 2014

EXCITING FILM THINGS THIS WAY COME!!! The 4th Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival Friday 26 September - Wednesday 1 October 2014 At the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos FESTIVAL IS FREE... & Registration is Required  Register for free entry at info@thelifehouselagos.com                            We love to show love to film-makers and films of an experimental nature...so we are especially pleased to be able to share  Joy, it's Nina with our  fabulous festival audience this year. Look out for interviews with the film-makers in this year's festival brochure  - they will be enlightening to say the least!  In the meantime, check out the film's website, watch the trailer and steadily anticipate this full-bodied film story made by Joy Elias-Rilwan and Jane Thorburn. One in front of and the other behind the camera; one born in Nigeria and the other in the UK; both working collaboratively using their experience as practitioners to develop the film through the act of making it. Joy, it's Nina - TRAILER - http://www.joyitsnina.com/trailer.html Look out for this film and many more in our forthcoming screening schedule ...coming soon to www.lightscameraafrica.com A number of riveting short films from the New African Shorts series of our friends and collaborators, African Film Festival Inc, will feature at this year's festival.  Aissa's Story is one of such shorts which our audiences in Lagos can look forward to. Aissa's Story is  made by Iquo B. Essien, and is the winner of the 2014 Spike Lee Film Production Fund Winner. Watch the trailer of Aissa's Story - http://youtu.be/0Qi4vT3t57Y  check out a review of Aissa's Story  Look out for this film and many more in our forthcoming screening schedule...coming soon to www.lightscameraafrica.com

WE ARE VERY EXCITED about Kunle Afolayan's OCTOBER 1!!! Watch the trailer and you'll see why...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZ3fg208QQ                After the award winning film maker gave us an impromptu sneak peak of OCTOBER 1 at last year's festival finale screening, numerous festival guests, friends and the enthusiastic public have restlessly anticipated this thrilling cinematic tour de force...the countdown begins to what we consider to be Kunle Afolayan's piece de resistance. "The biggest problem with Kunle Afolayan's new movie October 1 is that there is almost nothing wrong with it. The cinematography is top notch. Yinka Edward, who handled cinematography is a wizard, who achieves something that is always problematic for Nollywood, shooting a scene at night. He handles this with poise..."  -  TONI KAN, This Day (Aug. 24 2014) See the full review at http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/a-movie-with-a-royal-touch/187134/ You'll be pleased to know that you can catch OCTOBER 1 at cinemas nationwide on October 1, 2014....go to www.october1themovie.com for updates on the film. Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival will also host a special screening of OCTOBER 1 followed by a director's talk and Independence Day cocktails as part of our 2014 programme - for inquiries and registration please email us at info@thelifehouselagos.com. Remember to follow us at @LCAFilmFest on twitter for all festival news and for special news of some of this year's featured films.

Aya, a 19 year old girl lives with her parents in Yop City, a neighborhood in Abidjian. She spends time with her best friends Adjoua and Bintou. While Adjoua and Bintou like to spend her evenings dancing, drinking and flirting, Aya would like to become a doctor. Trouble starts when Adjoua realizes she is pregnant by Moussa who is the spoiled son of one of the richest and most feared men in the whole country... Calling all Animation-Loving, French-Speaking Fans of Urban Tales to enjoy the feature animation film, Aya of Yop City by Clement Oubrerie and Marguerite Abouet at Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival. After showing to a great audience of enthusiastic New Yorkers, we are pleased to co-present Aya of Yop City (Aya de Yopougon) with our New York partners, African Film Festival, Inc to a Lagos audience. Young Adults and Teenagers are especially invited to look out for this film. ..remember all films are free to watch (but do register!!!) Watch the trailer of Aya of Yop City - http://youtu.be/VRoqycmDlt0 Look out for this film and many more in our forthcoming screening schedule...coming soon to www.lightscameraafrica.com

THE FESTIVAL SOUK IS BACK IN 2014. Our carefully curated market of all things AFRICA and all things LEGACY in synergy with our 2014 festival theme will be open everyday of the festival. Be sure to visit, get some early Christmas shopping done, learn more about craft, and bask proudly in the Nigerian cultural essence over a drink or two at the SOUK cafe.  All this will take place at our 2014 festival venue,  FEDERAL PALACE HOTEL, Victoria Island.

Designing LEGACY

We continue to be passionate about fusing the best of art, design and urban energy into the visual campaigns of our annual film festival and this year's is no exception.  Designer Ayo Alaka and Illustrator Phil Wrigglesworth joined the Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival family to deliver an exceedingly refreshing visual concept, bringing our 2014 festival theme, LEGACY to living colour and creating this poster, a guaranteed collector's item. Look out for our very colourful festival memorabilia and variations of our poster at this year's festival souk!   LEGACY Rough Sketches courtesy Phil Wrigglesworth and Ayo Alaka