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RMD hosts TAFF 2017

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VETERAN actor, Richard Mofe Damijo, will host this year’s   The African Film Festival (TAFF)   on June 24 in Dallas, United States of America.

The founder and director of the festival, founder and director, Kelechi Eke, who announced RMD’s choice, said former commissioner for culture in Delta State was chosen because of his vast experience.

He said that apart from RMD, other Nigerian and African filmmakers  attending  the festival included Lancelot Imasuen; Uche Jombo, Ike Nnaebue,  Joseph Benjamin, Adeyemi Okanlawon, Mykel Parish Ajaere, Judith Audu, Emeka Obiakonwa, Robert Peters and Neville Navada.

Others are  Kenyan actress and producer Ruth Ndulu Maingi, Kenyan actor and last year’s co-host, Sir Benjamin Onyango, Gambian producer, Alhagie Manka, Ghanaian producer, Arthur Mensa; Billy Kwasi Richardson, Congolese producer/actress Soleil Diva and Sierra Leone’s Mohamed Bah.

Holding at the Dallas City Performance Hall, the festival will be opened to the public from June 30 and climax on July 3 with an awards night.

Eke disclosed that films made by Africans and a few made by non-Africans about issues important to the continent will be screened.

He explained that the idea behind the festival is to encourage African filmmakers and to present a true picture of Africa and Africans to counter the distorted image often created in mainstream commercial films.

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