The Annual Film Mischief festival's organizers have announced its second edition for 2023.
The festival's 2023 edition, themed #ShootTheCulture, will continue to draw passionate short film fans and creators from all over Africa to the city of Lagos, Nigeria.
The festival, which, like the first edition, will mostly highlight films of Nigerian provenance, but also include films from other African countries.
Chukwu Martin, founder of TAFM confirmed the festival's new edition in a statement. “In March 2022, we launched The Annual Film Mischief to shine the spotlight on filmmakers daring to tell stories with unique narratives and styles. The average African filmmaker comes from humble beginnings and though there will be limited resources, there will never be limits to creativity, hence our theme – ‘Less is More’. It was a call to action to reach beyond financial limitations and dig into the abundant well of creativity.”
According to the press statement, the festival selections will include domestic and international feature and short films. Submissions for the 2023 edition of The Annual Film Mischief will officially open November 1st, 2022, and filmmakers are encouraged to submit entries early enough through TAFM’s filmfreeway page at no cost at all.
Martin mentioned the previous film's success at the festival and went on to represent the industry internationally. "We had some accomplishments to be proud of. ‘Yahoo+’, one of the films screened at TAFM ’22, went on to get nationwide theatrical distribution with moderate success at the Nigerian box office.”
Other directors whose movies featured at the last event went on to gain recognition at film festivals both local and internationally. Olabode Izy, who earned the Audience Cheese Pick award at the festival last year for his film 'The Samaritan,' went on to get acclaim at other festivals like as Realtime International Film Festival and Cuckoo International Film Awards.
