Entries open for Afrinolly Short Film Competition

As occurred with the first edition, third place winners in both Short film and Documentary film categories will be rewarded with $5,000 each, second place takes $10,000 while the first prize winners will each receive $25,000.

Judges

Joining this year's panel of judges are South African film and TV producer Steven Markowitz, Ghanaian journalist Komla Dumor of the BBC and Cameroon's Tambay Obenson, editor of film blog Shadow and Act.

Markowitz recently produced the short film anthology Africa Metropolis, which featured short films from African cities like Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa and Johannesburg. Steven Markowitz, whose projects regularly feature at international films festivals like Cannes, Berlin and Rotterdam, has also worked on African films like Wanuri Kahui's award-winning sci-fi short Pumzi and Congolese director Djo Munga's Viva Riva!.

Komla Dumor is a correspondent and newscaster with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). KD as he is fondly called also anchors the BBC's Focus on Africa, a weekly TV magazine show documenting stories from all across Africa. Many viewers of the BBC World Service would be familiar with his smiley face and distinct voice.

Obenson, a filmmaker and writer, runs Shadow and Act, his personal blog on the IndieWire website. One of the most popular references to African and African cinema worldwide, Shadow and Act has featured Nigerian filmmakers Kunle Afolayan, Obi Emelonye and Tunde Kelani among others.

Dumor, Markowitz and Obenson join last year's jury members such as veteran documentary maker Femi Odugbemi, renowned filmmakers Tunde Kelani and Obi Emelonye, Hollywood writer/producer and curator of The Black List Franklin Leonard, TV Content producer Bongiwe Selane, filmmaker Akin Omotosho, Mahen Bonetti of the New York African Film Festival and Nmachi Jidenma blogger and founder of Celebrating Progress Africa (CP-Africa).

Entries can be submitted via www.afrinollyshortfilmcompetition.com until 30 November 2013.

The second edition of the Afrinolly Short Film Competition is partnered by MTN, IREP International Documentary Film Festival, Goethe-Institut Lagos and Blackberry as social media partner.

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