Wednesday, January 21, 2015

LANCELOT IMASUEN'S 'INVASION 1897' OFFICIALLY SELECTED FOR PAFF 2015


Lancelot Imasuen’s historical epic ‘INVASION 1897’ has officially been selected for “THE PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL 2015” taking place in Los Angeles California, USA from February 5-16th, 2014. Also, ‘INVASION 1897” will be showing on the 7th of February by 1pm at the British Film Institute (BFI), Belvedere Road, South Bank, Waterloo London SE1 8XT.


This wonderful movie which has been nominated for the AFRICA MAGIC VIEWERS CHOICE AWARDS (AMVC) - Best Movie (Drama) and Best Directior of the Year has also gone ahead to be nominated by the 10th SCREEN NATION AWARDS - SNA2015 for the ‘Favourite African UK Movie’ Category.

‘INVASION 1897’ has witnessed record attendance at cinemas across Nigeria since it was released on December 5, 2014. There has been unanimous agreement among moviegoers that it is one of the best movies of 2014.
Impressively, this wonderful movie has outperformed Hollywood titles at various locations across the country. The movie is spearheading a Nollywood invasion of Nigerian cinemas, which has seen Nollywood movies taking over from Hollywood movies at the Nigerian box office.
The epic is based on the invasion of the great Benin Kingdom by the British in 1897, which saw the deposition of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi. The movie parades an impressive cast, which includes Mike Omoregbe, Segun Arinze, Rudolph Walker, Charles Inojie, Paul Obazele, Justus Esiri, Charles 'Chucky' Venn, and Leo Mezie.
‘INVASION 1897’ has won awards already:

ABUJA INTL FILM FESTIVAL      Best Actor
                                           Best Film
                                           Best Sound
 BAFTA (UK)      Best Producer
                            Best Supporting Actor



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