After its premiere at the cinemas in 2021 and heeding to the call to go public, award-winning political drama film produced by Dr Rotimi Adelola, ‘The New Patriots’, will now be accessible to public viewers as it will start showing on LIBRA TV YouTube channel from April 17.
The movie, ‘The New Patriots’ directed by Adebayo Tijani and Terry Ayebo is one that celebrates youth participation in the democratic process in Nigeria and similar African settings. It has since its release received positive reviews from critics and has been screened at several international film festivals.
In 2020, it was the only feature film from Africa to be selected for the 2020 Five Continents International Film Festival, it was also selected for the Venezuela 2021 Montreal Independent Film Festival, Canada; the African Film Festival (TAFF) 2021, USA, and the Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival (TIFF) 2021.
In the same vein, on April 13 at 7 pm (West African Time), the IUPUI Committee on African Studies in partnership with the African Political Economy Association, will present ‘The New Patriots’ which will be narrated by its producer Dr. Adelola.
The event, which will be sponsored by the Indiana University African Studies Program, National Resource Center, will be moderated by Mr. Ademola Akinbola, Publisher of The Podium International Magazine. It will be a virtual event and can be accessed via this Zoom link: https://iu.zoom.us/j/89720251388.
Prof. Dele Omosegbon, a Professor of Economics at Indiana Wesleyan University, and Chairman of the Committee at IUPUI, said the event is one of the initiatives embarked upon by IUPUI to showcase the best of African creative arts. “It is going to be a brief event and the movie will be showed to a select group of academics,” the producer, Dr Adelola added.