“Get Ready for a Fiery Edition of Open Doors, The Locarno Film Festival’s Locarno Pro-Organized Co-Playermate Development Program for Filmmakers Frome Re-Rems. Risk! The 23rd Edition, The FIRST OF A MULTI-YEAR FOCUS ON THE AFRICAN Continent, Now Has A FIRST Trailer, Created in Collaboration with Nigerian Director and Writer CJ”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
It is One of Three Spots That HE CREATED AND THAT WILL BE Presited Before Each Open Doors Screening and on the Festival of Social Media Channels.
“I’ve been a long-time fan of the locarno film Festival and what they stand for with the Arthhouse Cinema World,“ SAID OBASI. “I Thought it would be a Cool of Idea to Sort of Usher in the National New Crop Of African Filmmakers to the Glorioous Locarno Film Festival visaals that speak to the diversity of Possibilities that the 42 Eligible Countries Present. ”
The Filmmaker Explained the Idea Bell The Clip This Way: “The Beautify Flags of the Eligible Countries Are Reflected on the Faces of the People We Seie In the Spot.The Colors That Bind Us. IT’s The Age-Old Idea of ‘Unity in Diversity’-This Time Presiented Through Stories and Through Cinema. ”
Behind the Scenes of the Open Doors Spot Shoot
And He Highlighted: “In some of the SPOTS, Images of Senegalese Writer and Director Ousanse Sambène and Malian filmmalMaker Soulayma of Saying: They’re Here with Us.
Giona A. Nazzaro, Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival, Recalled: “I FIRST MET CJ OBASI IN OUAGADUGUSMami Watawhosh went on to win at sundance. HISHello, Rain Had Struck Me Like A Lightning Bolt – An Authentic Epiphaany. We have the pleasure of featuring him in competition with the anthology filmJuju storiesand he late retirned to locarno as a jury member. ”
Concluded Nazzaro: “His abity to weave ancestral elements interary, Modernist gaze is is undoubtedly one of his most innovative and fortward -looking Contributions to Contempory Filmmaking.
Behind the Scenes of the Open Doors Spot Shoot
The Open Doors Trailes Were Directed and Edited by Obasi Under His Fiery Film Moniker. They Were Produced by Oge Obasi, with Imitana Productions Serving As the Line Producer. Sound Design Is Courtesy of the Fiery One, with Music by Jean Abbey.
“Following A Three-YEAR CYCLE DEDICATED TO LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN, The OPEN DOORS PROGRAM NOW TURNS ITS AT AFRICAN Continent for the UpComing Four Eding. Voices Through ITS Projects, Producers, and Directors Programs, ”Locarno Pro Organizers Said. “Open Doors Provides Compreehensive Training, Mentoring, and Networking Opportunities, Alongside Public Screenings and Events During Locarno Pro,” WHICH RUNS AUG. 7-12 During the 78th Edition of the Locarno Festival.
Check Out The First Obasi Spot Below.