The organizers of the NollywoodWeek Film Festival, Nigeria’s first and only film festival organized in Paris have announced that the 8th edition of the festival will take place online and has expanded beyond Nigeria to include high quality, thought provoking, and entertaining productions from other countries in Africa and the African Diaspora.

According to a statement from the organizers of the festival, the films in this year’s line-up will be available to a global online audience from Thursday May 6th to Sunday May 9th.

“The recent global uprisings and calls for greater justice has prompted us to rethink how our platform can help to elevate black voices and share more of our stories that show the full range of the global black experience. It is only natural to use this medium to not only highlight the fantastic talent in Nigeria but to make this first online edition a celebration of talent in Africa and the Diaspora” Nadira Abdus-Shakur, co-founder of NollywoodWeek disclosed.

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