Eastern Nigerian International Film Festival holds maiden edition

The maiden version of the Jap Nigeria Worldwide Movie Pageant (ENIFF) Nigeria was held nearly from Wednesday, November 4th, to Saturday, November seventh, 2020.

This primary version of the movie competition began with a gap ceremony hosted by radio presenter and actor, Lorenzo Menakaya.

The spotlight of the opening ceremony was the breaking of kolanut carried out by the veteran actor and broadcaster, Chief Pete Edochie, MON.

ENIFF founders and administrators, Ujuaku Akukwe-Nwakalor and Chris Odili, mentioned that 3101 movies have been submitted from 131 nations for this maiden version. 40 movies from 22 nations screened this 12 months together with the American Oscar Award profitable movie, “Pores and skin”, the South African documentary “A New Nation” which was the opening movie and Mexican masterpiece “ANYA”, which was the closing movie.

There have been trade periods tagged “Concepts @ ENIFF” by Nollywood veteran Pete Edochie, British-Canadian Actor Mark Holden, African movie curator Nadia Denton, Serial entrepreneur Obi Asika, digital strategist Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo and South African artist, Bandile Koketso Mbuli. Totally different classes of awards have been offered on the closing ceremony, as determined by the jury headed by movie scholar, Dr. Ezinne Ezepue.

The ENIFF 2020 Award winners are:

Greatest Animation

Gon, the Little Fox -Japan

Greatest Documentary Quick

Sundown in Makoko -Nigeria

Greatest Documentary Characteristic

Bassil’ora – Italy

Greatest Narrative Quick

Pores and skin – United States

Greatest Nigerian Movie

Blue

Greatest Narrative Characteristic

Anya – Mexico

Greatest Feminine Efficiency

María Fernanda Tovar (Anya) – Mexico

Greatest Male Efficiency

Anish Gosavi (Tak-Tak) – India

Greatest Director

Mika Johnson (Confessions of a Field Man) – Czech Republic (WINNER)

Greatest Movie

Pores and skin–United States

Particular Jury Prize

Two Autumns in Paris – Venezuela

Viewers Selection Award

Journey to Kenya – Sudan.

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