13th Abuja International Festival Festival Opens on Tuesday, October 4 at the Silverbird Cinemas in Abuja.

The four-day highly esteemed film festival has in the last 13 years hosted top filmmakers and distinguished delegates from all over the world with over 3, 000 stakeholders in the film and video broadcast industry for the promotion of modern arts and culture in Africa and the rest of the world.

AIFF guarantees you face to face contact with decision makers from across the film, broadcast, tourism and culture sector.

"In the last 13 years, we have organised an incredible 1501 meetings between senior decision makers in the creative sectors at our successive event," the organisers said in a press release from the Founder/CEO, Mr. Fidelis Duker.

The expected government officials include the Honorable Minister of the FCT, Alhaji Muhammad Musa Bello, Honourable Minister of Information & Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Honourable Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu, Honourable Minister of Culture from Cameroon and delegation from the Cameroonian Film Industry .

Expected diplomatic guests include, the US Ambassador to Nigeria (The Charge D Affairs) Mr. Young and Delegation, the Ambassador of Iran and Cultural Attache and the Cultural Attache of Embassy of China In Nigeria.

Other important guests are top Nollywood stake holders and Heads of Government Agencies Functionaries and delegation of FEPACI (Federation of Pan African Filmmakers) from Ghana, Benin, Togo and Cameroon for the FEPACI Workshop on Co Production/Film Financing and Distribution.