On Wednesday 17 June in the Centro Cultural CajaGRANADA Memoria de Andalucía, a colloquium will take place on the film industry in Nigeria in which producers and experts on emerging African film will participate.

Cines del Sur presents this roundtable, which will be moderated by the Festival programmer Alberto Elena and will focus on the current phenomenon of film production in Sub-Saharan Africa. The roundtable will include Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima, a Nigerian producer and member of the jury for Cines del Sur’s Official Section and the critics and historians Jonathan Haynes, Professor at the University of Long Island and Fernando González, Professor at the University of Salamanca.
Additionally, the issue of the magazine Archivos de la Filmoteca entitled Nollywood: panorama audiovisual en Nigeria coordinated by Alberto Elena with the collaboration of Jonathan Haynes will be presented. Vicente J. Benet, the publication’s editor-in-chief, will also be present.
Immediately afterwards, the documentary Mission Nollywood/Peace Mission (Germany, 2008) by Dorothee Wenner and Fred Amata’s Letters to a Stranger (Nigeria, 2008) will be shown.