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Aje & Bruja Builds on African Futures in Film

A look at the short film by groundbreaking filmmaker Nosa Igbinedion

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Adika Butler
Nov 28, 2023
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American screenwriter and director Orson Welles said that a film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

African mythology and religion naturally lend themselves to a colorful and expansive worldview that is highly translatable to the silver screen. One of the young filmmakers who are highlighting the possibilities for Afr…

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