More kudos to Kenyan filmmaker Hawa Essuman's supernatural screenplay titled Djin, which has won the Director’s Eye prize at the 9th African Film Festival of Cordoba (Spain); the award comes with 25,000 euro (or about $32,600) to be used in development.
This marks yet another funding coup for the project, which, in January, was 1 of 36 entries selected for Rotterdam’s 29th co-production market CineMart, where it was presented to 850 potential co-financiers.
The acclaimed director of Soul Boy, her 2010 feature film debut (which was produced by Tom Tykwer - director of Run Lola, Run, Cloud Atlas), saw her Djin awarded the Director's Eye prize from a selection of 6 feature film scripts, which participated in the 4th Forum for African Co-production at Cordoba.
Special mention went to Salme’s Freedom, by Mira Tanna-Händel (also from Kenya).
Look for individual profiles of the other 5 runners-up: Sweet Justice, by Ekwa Msangi-Omari (Tanzania, U.S., Kenya); Kiloshe, by Victoria Thomas (Sierra Leone); La batârde, by Uda Benyamina/ Malik Rumeau (Morocco, Syria, France); and La Bande à Salomon, by Kivu Ruhorahoza (Rwanda).
Source: Indiewire.com.
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