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Mirror Boy Premier

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We featured the trailer for Mirror Boy on here a few months back and are now excited to see that the film has its UK premier at the Empire in Leicester Square on the 24th February. The film was jointly made by Nollywood and OH Films, and filmed on location in the UK, The Gambia and Nigeria. It stars Genevieve Nnaji, Osita Iheme, Edward Kaguzuti and if the trailer is anything to go by, looks to be an intriguing and challenging film. You can find details about attending the screening here, and follow events on the film’s Facebook page.

Journeyman Gambia film

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We featured something back in July on the excellent Gambia film made by the Canadian company Journeyman. Their task was to create a ‘non-stereotypical, empowering story about Africa that will talk to Canadians’. We’ve recently come across a couple of sections of the full length video on YouTube and thought we would share these with you.

They have a strange power about them and are as true a representation of the country as I’ve seen; and whilst the clip below doesn’t show The Gambia of brochures and polished photography it still induces, for me anyway, a near crippling nostalgia for the place: the faces, the rust-brown roads, the simple lines of things, vivid in that unique sharpness of light… It’s a great piece.