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04th February 2025

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The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos was announced as the Best Pan-African Feature Film at the Chandler International Film Festival.

Great News …The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos was announced as the Best Pan-African Feature Film at the Chandler International Film Festival. See the whole list here

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos was announced as the Best Pan-African Feature Film at the Chandler International Film Festival.

Women In Film Awards

Women In Film Awards Nominees list is out! Vote for your favorite Female Director , Producer . Cinematographer , Scriptwriter, Actress , Editor , Sound Recordist, Script Supervisor and more. Click Here to Vote . Voting is open til 18th February 2025.

GRANTS AND SUBMISSIONS

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos was announced as the Best Pan-African Feature Film at the Chandler International Film Festival.

BLACK STAR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

The Black Star International Film Festival opens submissions. If you have made a film, they want to see and celebrate your hard work. Go ahead apply! The 9th edition will take place from September 17th-22nd, 2025 in Acraa , Ghana. Deadline: April 30, 2025

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos was announced as the Best Pan-African Feature Film at the Chandler International Film Festival.

THE LADIMA FOUNDATION’S

ADIAHA AWARD

Entries for The Ladima Foundation’s Adiaha Award for Best Documentary by an African Woman are NOW OPEN  and African Women filmmakers are invited to submit their films.

Deadline: 10th March 2025.

SCREENINGS

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos was announced as the Best Pan-African Feature Film at the Chandler International Film Festival.

Wednesday 5th February February 2025

at 6.30pm

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos was announced as the Best Pan-African Feature Film at the Chandler International Film Festival.

Thursday 8th February 2025

at 9:00pm

Saturday 8th February 2025

at 6.30pm

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos was announced as the Best Pan-African Feature Film at the Chandler International Film Festival.

Saturday 8th February 2025 @ 6.30pm

SARAH will be screening at The Pan Africa Film Festival on 11th & 14th February . See more details here

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos was announced as the Best Pan-African Feature Film at the Chandler International Film Festival.

THE EMPTY GRAVE follows the emotional journey of two Tanzanian families in search of their stolen ancestors. Their quest leads them to Germany where tens of thousands of human remains from former German colonies are stored in museum depots – a haunting legacy of colonial plunder in the early 20th century, taken for racist research and as macabre trophies.

The Empty Grave will be screening at Unseen from Sat, Feb 01, 2025 til Sun, Mar 02, 2025 . There will also be a Q & A session with Cece Mlay on 9th February 2025.

EDITORS CHOICE

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos was announced as the Best Pan-African Feature Film at the Chandler International Film Festival.

Sarah loves her school, but traditional Maasai culture, and the pressures of a long drought are about to change her life. A generous dowry offer means her family must decide whether to conduct traditional circumcision (FGM/C) and accept this offer, or miss a rare chance to rebuild their wealth.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

NICK REDING

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos was announced as the Best Pan-African Feature Film at the Chandler International Film Festival.

The making of this film was a deeply collaborative process, out of the ordinary traditions of filmmaking. Sarah was eighteen years in the making, based on the true stories of the Loita people and involving improvisation and spontaneous creative processes, allowing a deeply personal and cultural tradition to be sensitively examined and unpicked.

Working with first-time actors requires an ability to tailor characters and stories to the individual performers and enable their strengths and unique talents to tell their true stories.

We wanted to create a narrative that would capture the injustice and suffering that this cultural practice inflicts, as well as build the confidence of young women and girls to resist the tradition and to convene the whole community behind total abandonment.

Through collating all of the conversations, debates, and discussions with Maasai women and men that had taken place over the many years of implementing the FGC abandonment project, our aim was to create a story that explained the journey towards abandonment and highlighted the obstacles that are preventing full abandonment in the Loita Community. We were particularly interested in telling the journey of a young woman in such a patriarchal society as she approached the traditional age for ‘graduation’.

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