Nollywood filmmaker Kunle Afolayan will join filmmakers from seven African countries next week as Nigeria’s representative at the Third African Film Week in Athens, Greece.
According to the website of the film festival, the eight countries represented at the event this year are Angola, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Tunisia.
Tagged the Third African Film Week, the event, which is bankrolled by the embassies and consulates of African countries in Athens, will come under the Greek Film Archive project. It will hold at 48, Lera Odos Street (Kerameikos Metro station) free of charge.
Maria Komninos, general secretary of the Board of Directors, Greek Film Archive, said “such events promote the multicultural dialogue that film archives aim to encourage.”
He described Afolayan as a new generation Nigerian filmmaker, who studied Business Administration and embraced filmmaking, enrolling at the New York Film Academy.
“His films have garnered international acclaim and featured at the London Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, New York African Film Festival as well as Cinema Africa International Film Festival in Japan,” said Komninos in his introduction of Afolayan on the festival brochure.
Congratulation Kunle Afolayan.