Lights Camera Africa 2013 Film Festival

The Life House, Lagos proudly presents the 3rd Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival together with the African Film Festival, New York and Nadia Denton©, London.



This year the Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival is scheduled to hold again over the Independence Day holidays from Saturday, 28 September to Tuesday, 1 October 2013 with the theme, ‘Great Migrations’.



In the ever- shrinking ‘global village’ migration remains as strong a current as it always was. However, the age of technology has made it faster, more urgent and presented itself to us in more forms than one. We transfer thoughts, ideas, information, data, emotions and people more swiftly than ever before. The outcome is a changing worldscape. Ideas that were once innovative and implausible are now accepted and established. These great migrations, mirror our constant journey through life and all its facets and can be recounted loudly with time and physical distance, or subtly with personal growth and cultural evolution.



Lights, Camera, Africa!!! 2013 will feature a diverse range of African cinema and this year will include novel genres. Inspired by the theme ‘Great Migrations’ our 2013 film festival will explore the various aspects of migration and movement of African people, culture, art and existentiality. 



The Lights, Camera, Africa!!! 2013 Film Festival will highlight and explore the migrations and movement of people to and from Africa; the social dynamics that Africa has witnessed in post colonial years; the dynamic evolution of the continent’s art expressions particularly in film, music and literature and the general shifts in thought, philosophy, politics and our communal and individual identity as Africans.



Continuing to celebrate and propagate a rich African heritage through film, The Life House through its Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival this September promises to deliver to its enthused audience and sponsors a robust programme of educational talks and workshops; entertaining concerts and fairs and an even more diverse pool of riveting films in multiple genres including but not limited to feature, animation, experimental and documentary.



Our pioneer partnership with the acclaimed 20-year old African Film Festival, New York (AFF) continues to blossom and with a 5-day programme planned this year (our longest festival yet), The Life House is especially thrilled to present Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival to the people of Nigeria, Africa and indeed the entire world in 2013. This year, The Life House proudly announces new partnerships and exchange opportunities with the New Black London Film Heritage group and Nadia Denton© of the United Kingdom.



Lights, Camera, Africa!!! continues to showcase the brightest ideas in African cinema; promote the most promising film talent from within Africa and in particular the work of local filmmakers in Nigeria.