Dabyna Poll-Abraham: The Best Rock Music Guitarist in Africa

Dabyna Poll-Abraham:  Son of Rock

The Best Rock Music Guitarist in Africa

@dabynasonofrock is the best rock music guitarist in Africa for over 20 years and still counting. 

A fact that majority of Nigerians don't know. And he is a Nigerian.

He has performed in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and other countries.

He is also amiable, humble and noble. 

A very philosophical musician.

I have had the honour of performing with him in 2002 as he and his band played for the rendition of my song, "Darego! You Are the Most Beautiful Girl in the World" in honour of Agabani Darego, the first Black African Miss World crowned in 2001. 

The live performance was for the graduation day of the students of the Alliance Française at the French Cultural Centre in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria.

It was an unforgettable night as the girls were screaming as I sang.

Do you know that Daby Poll-Abraham also plays Afrobeats rock music?

- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

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The 76th Annual Cannes Film Festival: Complete List of Winners

 

The 76th Annual Cannes Film Festival: Complete List of Winners

Official poster of the 76th Cannes Film Festival featuring actress Catherine Deneuve during a shooting of La Chamade (1968)

Opening film

Jeanne du Barry

Closing film

Elemental

The 76th annual Cannes Film Festival held from 16 to 27 May 2023.

The closing ceremony of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival took place on May 27 at 20.30 CEST (19.30 BST) at the Grand Theatre Lumiere.

Justine Triet became the third woman to win the Palme d'OR, after Jane Campion in 1993, and Julia Ducournau in 2021.

Her French courtroom drama tells the story of a writer accused of her husband's murder.

PALME D’OR

ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE (ANATOMY OF A FALL) directed by Justine TRIET

GRAND PRIX

THE ZONE OF INTEREST directed by Jonathan GLAZER

BEST DIRECTOR

TRAN ANH Hùng for LA PASSION DE DODIN BOUFFANT (THE POT-AU-FEU)

JURY PRIZE

KUOLLEET LEHDET (FALLEN LEAVES) directed by Aki KAURISMÄKI

BEST SCREENPLAY

SAKAMOTO Yuji for KAIBUTSU (MONSTER) directed by KORE-EDA Hirokazu

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS

Merve DIZDAR for KURU OTLAR USTUNE (ABOUT DRY GRASSES) directed by Nuri Bilge CEYLAN

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR

Koji YAKUSHO for PERFECT DAYS directed by Wim WENDERS

SHORT FILMS

2023 winners' list

PALME D’OR

27 for Flóra Anna BUDA

SPECIAL MENTION

FÁR (INTRUSION) directed by Gunnur MARTINSDÓTTIR SCHLÜTER

UN CERTAIN REGARD

2023 winners' list

UN CERTAIN REGARD PRIZE

HOW TO HAVE SEX directed by Molly MANNING WALKER

JURY PRIZE

LES MEUTES (HOUNDS) directed by Kamal LAZRAQ

BEST DIRECTOR PRIZE

Asmae EL MOUDIR for KADIB ABYAD (THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES)

NEW VOICE PRIZE

AUGURE (OMEN) directed by BALOJI

ENSEMBLE PRIZE

CROWRÃ (THE BURITI FLOWER) directed by João SALAVIZA & Renée NADER MESSORA

FREEDOM PRIZE

GOODBYE JULIA directed by Mohamed KORDOFANI

LA CINEF

2023 winners' list

FIRST PRIZE

NORWEGIAN OFFSPRING directed by Marlene Emilie LYNGSTAD

Den Danske Filmskole, Denmark

SECOND PRIZE

HOLE directed by HWANG Hyein

Korean Academy of Film Arts, South Korea

THIRD PRIZE

AYYUR (MOON) directed by Zineb WAKRIM

ÉSAV Marrakech, Morocco

CAMÉRA D'OR

2023 winners' list

BÊN TRONG VO KEN VANG (INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL) de THIEN AN PHAM

Directors’ Fortnight

L’ŒIL D'OR - YEAR OF THE DOCUMENTARY (EX ÆQUO)

2023 winners' list

LES FILLES D’OLFA directed by Kaouther BEN HANIA

KADIB ABYAD (THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES) directed by Asmae EL MOUDIR

THE HIGHER TECHNICAL COMMISSION FOR SOUND AND IMAGES

2023 winners' list

The CST jury has awarded the CST ARTIST-TECHNICIAN AWARD 2023 to Johnnie Burn from the film THE ZONE OF INTEREST by Jonathan Glazer and the CST Young Film Technician Award to Anne-Sophie Delseries, head set designer for the film LE THÉORÈME DE MARGUERITE (MARGUERITE’S THEOREME) by Anna Novion.

Thanks to the delicacy of her work, Anne-Sophie Delseries succeeded in giving birth to a third character who is an essential part of the film’s narrative.

Honorary Palme d’Or

Michael Douglas

Harrison Ford 

The Head of the Jury 

Ruben Östlund

Source

https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/press/press-releases/the-76th-festival-de-cannes-winners-list

From Mati Diop To Alice Diop: Two French Senagalese Female Filmmakers Who Have Made History

From Mati Diop To Alice Diop: Two French Senagalese Female Filmmakers Who Have Made History in Cannes and Venice

First it was Mati Diop, the French-Senegalese filmmaker whose first feature film "Atlantics" made her the first black female director to be in the Official Selection in competition for the Palme d'Or and won the Grand Prix equivalent of the silver prize at the 2019 annual Cannes Film Festival, making her the first black female director to win an award in Cannes' 72-year history. And another French Senegalese filmmaker, Alice Diop with the same surname has just made history as first black female filmmaker to win the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize, for her first feature, "Saint Omer" and also the Lion of the Future LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS Venice Award for a debut film at the 79th annual Venice International Film Festival in 2022.

Mati Diop was born in Paris on June 22 in 1982 and Alice Diop was born in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France in 1979.

-  By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor, NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series.

The following is from an interview with Alice Diop on the making of "Saint Omer".

What led you to develop it as a narrative feature?

A documentary was never the plan. At the time, I was too busy with research, plus we couldn’t shoot in the courtroom and I would never [make the real participants] reenact the proceedings. Anyway, I wanted to recreate my experience of listening to another woman’s story while interrogating myself, facing my own difficult truths. The narrative had to trace a series of emotional states that can lead to catharsis. It’s like accelerated psychotherapy.  

https://variety.com/2022/film/festivals/venice-alice-diop-saint-omer-1235367521/

Nollywood and the French Connection

NOLLYWOOD

Nollywood and The French Connection

Before the Nigerian government started supporting Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry with grants from the Project Act Nollywood and the NollyFund of the Bank of Industry (BoI), the French government through the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs supported the film and TV productions of selected Nigerian filmmakers. The French Audio Visual Attaché in Nigeria (2002-2006), Monsieur Pierre Barrot authored one of the first books on the phenomenon of Nollywood, "Nollywood: The Video Phenomenon in Nigeria" published by the Indiana University Press in 2009.

One of films sponsored by the French government, "Eternal" by Chike Ibekwe won the best film award (Ecrans Dór) at the 14th edition of Ecrans Noir Film Festival in  2010 in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Another outstanding film produced with the support of  Fonds images Afrique of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs was "Changing Faces";by Faruk Lasaki,  the first Nigerian film to be dubbed into French and broadcast by Canal France International in 2009 to all television channels in French-speaking Africa under the title "La Métamorphose".

Nigerian Films and TV series projects which benefitted from French production funding and were fully completed.

Projet	Producteur ou réalisateur	Genre	Aide accordée	Origine	Année
Our husband has gone mad again	Albert Egbe	TV Series (13 x 26 minutes)	40 000 euros	Fonds Images Afrique	2003
The Virgin ?	Tunde Kelani	TV Series	35 000 euros	Fonds Images Afrique	2003
Claws of the lion	Francis Onwochei	Feature Film	30 000 euros	Fonds Images Afrique	2004
Tides of Fate	Greg Odutayo	TV Series	40 000 euros	Fonds Images Afrique	2005
Eternal	Chikeh Ibekwe	Feature Film	40 000 euros	Fonds Images Afrique	2005
The Head of State	Jimi Odumosu		45 000 euros	Fonds Images Afrique	2005
Changing Faces	Faruk Lasaki		60 000 euros	Fonds Images Afrique	2005
Off Campus	Chikeh Ibekwe		35 000 euros	Fonds Images Afrique	2005
Relentless	Andy Amadi Okoroafor		Aide réécriture   100 000 euros	Fonds Images Afrique	2005     2006

 

- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima

Publisher/Editor

NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series

"Héliopolis" is a Masterpiece in Motion Picture

In 1970, Algeria became the first country in the Arab world to win an #Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category with the Algerian-French production “Z” directed by Costa Gavras.

“Héliopolis", Algeria's entry for the Best International Feature Film category of the 94th Annual Academy Awards is a very powerful historical drama about
the Algerian revolution, directed by Djaafar Gacem.

Synopsis:

In Guelma, Victory in Europe Day is a life-altering event for one Algerian family: French troops are about to commit a massacre against Algerian civilians.

In Guelma, which was once called Heliopolis in ancient times, the daily life of an Algerian family takes its usual course. But on May 8, 1945, the day the end of World War II was announced, demonstrations by the Algerian people against the French colonial power and for the country’s independence took place, which were bloodily suppressed by the French army and French settler militias. The event went down in history as the Sétif and Guelma massacre. 

"Héliopolis" is a masterpiece in motion picture and will end up a classic in the history of filmmaking in Algeria and the rest of the Arab world.

French is the best language of motion picture. 

I predict "Héliopolis" making it to the final nominees for the Best International Feature Film, Best Picture and the Best Original Screenplay.. But I don't know if it can win the second Oscar for Algeria, because of the outstanding films by the other countries competing for the Best International Feature Film award.

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Heliopolis is also the title of an Egyptian film produced in 2009 directed by Ahmad Abdalla.

- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

Publisher/Editor, 

NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series
@247 NIGERIA @247nigrria on Twitter

Saint Laurent French Water

 

Saint Laurent
French Water - A Film by Jim Jarmusch

Source: youtube.com
Published: April 2021
All people in this campaign:
Anthony Vaccarello - Designer
Jim Jarmusch - Director
Sydney Rose Thomas - Fashion Editor/Stylist
Ward Stegerhoek - Hair Stylist
Erin Parsons - Makeup Artist
Samuel Ellis Scheinman - Casting Director
Maki Sakamoto - Manicurist
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Actor
Chloë Sevigny - Actor
Indya Moore - Actor
Julianne Moore - Actor
Leo Reilly - Actor