Port Harcourt To Host The Rivers International Film Festival

The Rivers State International Film Festival, is a festival that will hold in the garden city of Port Harcourt in Rivers state, Nigeria.

According to the organisers, it will help to rediscover and promote the Rivers culture and heritage as a people, then bring together a community of creative leaders from around the world.

They continued that the event will enhance the world's cultural and artistic varieties through films and help to discover and promote new talents.

Birthed in 2022, the group is committed to bringing an educational touch to the festival through movie screening, sciences, exhibitions, tours, skill acquisitions and interactive sessions and asking film makers with films that will motivate people in Nigeria, Africa and the world at large to enlist in the project.

We want "films that protects our culture and heritage, solves societal and environmental issues", they posits.

So if your response is yes, The Rivers State International Film Festival (RIFF) is your festival.

They further stated that they believe that films are powerful tools and medium that can create positive change to the world so by empowering young creatives, they aim to ignite a new generation of creative leaders and film makers offering the audience a space to meet and exchange around the universal themes and tales, legend and the stories that bring us together.

RIFF is aimed at protecting the culture, heritage and people to the world through the entertainment industry. It is aimed at providing environmental, cultural, societal and scientific exhibitions to the adversaries that explores the diversity of our experiences on planet earth.

Awards and prizes for the categories are:

Best English film
Best non-English film
Best online film
Best international film
Best feature length film
Best short film
Best indigenous film
Best director
Best female actor
Best male actor
Best kid actor
best subtitle
Best cinematographer
Best costume
Best make-up
Best documentary
Best animation

The committee reserves the right to exclude films which does not conform with the aims of the festival or which will offend the national feelings and susceptibilities of any participating country or are likely to promote racial discrimination, the group said.

Also, Films not presenting sufficient technical qualities for good public screening can also be refused.

Full program for the scheduled event will be published later.

Category:

Arts & Culture 

Oganisation:

Clevenard.com

Writer:

Franca Idemudia