THE directorate of the yearly iREPRESENT International Documentary Film Festival, IREP, has issued a reminder that the submission of entries for the 2022 edition of the festival will end Monday January 31.
The 12th edition of the iREP, solely dedicated to Documentary film making, will hold from March 17 – 20, 2022 on the theme – “UNFILTERED: African Stories. Stories from Africa.”
Unlike the 2021 edition which held only online, the 12th edition will hold in hybrid format: via zoom and other e-platforms and as well as physically at the Freedom Park, by Broad Street, Lagos Island.
The organisers urged would-be participants to submit their words via filmfreeway.com.
According to a latest announcement by the co-founder and Executive Producer of the Festival, the storyteller, content producer, Femi Odugbemi, “Entries to the 2022 edition of the IREP Docufilm Festivals closes in 48 hours. Details of entry on our website and on Filmfreeway.com”
The iREP has, in the past 11 years, registered itself as a platform for filmmakers from different parts of the world to share their works and engage audiences in very insightful discussions.
Last year, iREP held a joint virtual film fest in conjunction with the US-based African World Documentary Film Festival (AWDFF), featuring documentary filmmakers from 26 countries in six continents of the world who showcased their works to diverse audiences around the world no thanks to the pandemic.
Africa in Self-Conversation…
CONCEPTUALLY framed around the generic theme of Africa in Self-Conversation, the festival has remained constant in seeking to encourage African creatives in whatever mediums, and especially those involved in the vocation of storytelling through the media, to own their own narratives, and not allow others tell their stories on their behalf to avoid the usual deliberate and unintended twisting of the content and context of such narratives.
The generic theme is drawn from the founding conceptual framework of the iREP Documentary Film Forum designed to promote awareness about the power of the documentary format to serve as a means of deepening and sharing social and cultural education as well as encouraging participatory democracy in African societies.
