36 min
IACP SE03EP05 - Filmmaking & Success in the Film Industry with Kenneth Gyang I Am Change
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In this episode of I Am Change Podcast, Korede Azeez chats with award-winning filmmaker Kenneth Gyang about his latest film, Oloture, and what it takes to make it young in Nollywood.
Kenneth Gyang is a 2018 AFS Fellow at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, a graduate of the prestigious EAVE European Producers Workshop and co-founder of the film production company Cinema Kpatakpata. The company’s first feature film script Confusion Na Wa (2013) secured funding from Hubert Bals Fund in the Netherlands.
The finished film won Best Film and Best Nigerian Film at the 2013 African Movie Academy Awards as well as the Jury Prize at the 2014 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles.
The Lost Café (2017), his second feature was the Audience Prize winner at the Africa International Film Festival in Nigeria and Golden Palm winner at the 2018 Mexico International Film Festival. Oloture (2019), his third feature had a private screening at CAA (Creative Arts Agency) in LA and had its premiere at the 2019 Carthage Film Festival, the oldest and biggest film festival in Africa and the Arab world. Within the first week of its release on Netflix, Oloture made it to the top ten most-watched films in 26 countries across the globe.
In this episode of I Am Change Podcast, Korede Azeez chats with award-winning filmmaker Kenneth Gyang about his latest film, Oloture, and what it takes to make it young in Nollywood.
Kenneth Gyang is a 2018 AFS Fellow at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, a graduate of the prestigious EAVE European Producers Workshop and co-founder of the film production company Cinema Kpatakpata. The company’s first feature film script Confusion Na Wa (2013) secured funding from Hubert Bals Fund in the Netherlands.
The finished film won Best Film and Best Nigerian Film at the 2013 African Movie Academy Awards as well as the Jury Prize at the 2014 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles.
The Lost Café (2017), his second feature was the Audience Prize winner at the Africa International Film Festival in Nigeria and Golden Palm winner at the 2018 Mexico International Film Festival. Oloture (2019), his third feature had a private screening at CAA (Creative Arts Agency) in LA and had its premiere at the 2019 Carthage Film Festival, the oldest and biggest film festival in Africa and the Arab world. Within the first week of its release on Netflix, Oloture made it to the top ten most-watched films in 26 countries across the globe.
36 min