Winners for the Black Star International Film Festival 2020 have been announced.
Winners were honoured for works in various categories including Best Feature Film, Best Student Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Women In Film, Africa Rising, Best Short Film and Odehye3.
Winners included Lost In Time by Peter Kawa, Beneath The Surface and Walking With Shadows by Aoife O’Kelly (UK-Nigeria).
With support from the Goethe Institute, the winner of the Odehyie3 Category (the outstanding Ghanaian filmmaker 2020) won a 1,500 Dollars.
Find below the full list of winners.
Best Feature Film – Lost In Time by Peter Kawa
Best Student Film – Beneath The Surface
Best Documentary – TWOUB MANTAL – Jean- Rene Pierre (Haiti)
Best Animated Film – Jumbie Kids – Verna Corbin (USA)
Best Women In Film – Walking With Shadows – Aoife O’Kelly (UK-Nigeria)
Africa Rising- The Star Boy – Emelie Exton (UK)
Odehye3 – Heroes Of Africa – Frank Gharbin (Ghana)
Best Short Film – The Therapist – KANSO OGBOLU (Nigeria)
The Black Star International Film Festival has since its inception in 2016, continued to grow and gained recognition as one of the fastest-growing film festivals on the African continent. It has and continues to serve as a great platform for filmmakers from all over the world to showcase their works to a wide range of audiences, learn great and innovative industry practices, network with fellow filmmakers and distributors from across the globe.
The festival boasts of great events including panel sessions, BSIFF Lab (workshop), film screenings, a music concert and an award night, which are attended by many people from all over the world.
This is a unique opportunity for filmmakers including professionals, amateurs and student filmmakers to showcase their work to fellow filmmakers, film lovers, distributors and other key stakeholders from all over the world.
