Conversations with Film Professionals: Tobi Akinde
Feb
25
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
University of Richmond, Boatwright Memorial Library, Adams Auditorium
261 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173
University of Richmond, VA 23173
Join the Film Studies Program and Africana Studies Program for a conversation and film screening with Tobi Akinde, Nigerian filmmaker, independent curator, and researcher.
Tobi Akinde is a Nigerian filmmaker and independent film curator working from New Orleans. In 2020, he co-started the Monangambee Film Foundation and has privately curated films for the Goethe-Institut Nigeria, the African Studies Book Club at the University of Cambridge, and the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. His most recent documentary work as a cinematographer, Coconut Head Generation (2023), won the Jury Grand Prix at Cinema du Reel (2023) and has screened at New Directors, New Films at MoMA, New York, BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, and the Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights amongst others.
He is currently working simultaneously on two films: Go to Hell, his M.F.A thesis film at the University of New Orleans and Camp Us, a feature documentary selected at the prestigious UnionDocs Early Production Lab (2024) in New York.