Port-Harcourt was awash with stars of screen and television from the 1st to 5th of December 2010 as they gathered for the long awaited maiden edition of the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF). The festival opened in grand style with the red carpet premiere of Andy Okoroafor’s movie “Relentless” at the Genesis Deluxe Cinema.
Nollywood and other Nigerian celebrities mixed it up with Bollywood stars and Hollywood’s Rockmond Dunbar and Malcolm Jamal-Warner, whilst the big wigs of Rivers State, led by the Governor, Rt. Hon Rotimi Amaechi and the First Lady Judith Amaechi, came out to showcase the State’s potential for entertainment, culture and tourism.
Beyond red carpet premieres, there were workshops, panel exposes and the Africa Film and Equipment Market which was an opportunity for networking and collaborations amongst film makers, content buyers, distributors and investors from around the world. The closing Awards Gala at the Presidential Hotel Music Arena honoured the best African cinematic works in 2010, whilst the crowd was wowed by live performances from P Square and “Port Harcourt Boy” Duncan Mighty.
Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) 2010 – Winners
Best People’s Choice Award:
Working Girl by Nigel Trellis (Antigua+Barbuda)
Best Animation:
URS by Montz Mayerhofer (Germany)
Best Short Film:
Pumzi by Wanuri Kahiu (Kenya)
Best Documentary:
Stolen by Daniel FallShaw (Australia)
Best Feature Film:
Soul Boy by Hawa Essuman (Kenya/Germany)
AFRIFF 2010 Party & Fashion Show
Celine Loader
Chineze Anyaene with a guest
Segun Arinze
Nneka
Eku Edewor
Kunle Afolayan
Ibinabo Fiberisima
Caterina Bortulossi
Memry Savanhu & Barbara Ukattah
Bantu
Omoni Oboli
Gideon Okeke
AFRIFF Team
Alex Kothoor with guests
Eku & Rita rock the runway in Kina Buti Fashow Show
AFRIFF Awards Gala & Other AFRIFF 2010 Events
Dakore Akande
Genevieve Nnaji
Chika Chukwu and Ibinabo Fiberisima
Memry Savanhu, Rita Dominic & Barbara Ukattah
Rita Dominic
Celine Loader & Tonye Faloughi
Rockmond Dunbar, Chioma Ude and Malcom Jamal-Warner
First Lady, Judith Amaechi and Hon. Marcus Nle-Eji
Rt. Hon Rotimi Amaechi
Mike & Keke Ezuruonye
Omoni Oboli
Antonella with a guest
Eku interviews AFRIFF participants
Anwar Sadiqi, Maria Ast and Ayesha Omer
Evelyn Egejuru & Nneoha Eziri
Caterina Bortulossi & Tonye Faloughi
Debbie with a guest
Ntare and Soledad
Omoni Oboli, Malcolm Jamal-Warner & Tosin Sido
Photo Credit: AFRIFF | Kola Oshalusi | Face Front Concepts
Mike and Keke look sooooo Beautiful!!
yayyyy first!!
not really
Lol
LWKMD hahahahahaha, this made my day
nice
Almost everyone looked stunning, Nigerian’s are killing it all the way..
i love Memry Savanhu’s outfit.
sidenote: Mike & Keke Ezuruonye look so cute
Eku Edewor is a bonafide style icon!!!! I don’t care what anyone says – she has killer style
I concur!
true….
sooo true!! the girl has got style and beautiful taste!
Dont forget she has a stylist
Lovely lovely pics, everyone’s looking pretty. From Rita to Gene etc.
yawnnn…enough with the black miss genevieve
Please tell her
she said its her favourite colour on ovation
Gennny lukd wow, very simple yet classy,elegant n sexily differnt.. n Rita lukd gud 2..
Almost everyones dressing was on point, love genny’s dress but maybe she should try wearing a lighter colour.
Mike and Keke look so lovely.
As for Psquare, they are looking hot as usual.
Rita dominics dressing is always on point, love dakore, she looked so beautiful (no homo). Then Mrs Rotimi she don dey add weight o abi is it just me?
Omoni’s dressing looked so casual but she looked pretty, everyone looked good sha, nice pics!!
What can i say?..LOVELY…well put together
Mike Ezuruonyes wife is extremely beautifullllllllllllll she seems to be getting more beautiful in every new pic… Awww may God bless their union, very perfect match. Everyone looks really nice, i see Genevieve loves black a lot lool, she still looks beautiful as usual.
Mike’s wife has a lovely smile. She must be a warm lady. I like her.
Mkey..ur wife is da bomb!!! Genny is beauty personified! Riri..ur skin glows~~ Naija is killing it!
i love malcom jamal warner from cosby show….btw rita is becoming lighter by d day or may be its the camera or sth
THANK YOU!!!!!! as per Rita getting lighter. her skin color seems other-worldly
yeah…jes realised am not over d crush i had 4 him then!
they all LOOK STUNNING
lovely pics..genny on point as usual..love dakore s flawless look..u go girl..rita,black suits u…omono,is just a simple lady…keep up d good work nollywood…
I love genny, rita, babarwa and her friend’s outfit , lovely dresses…… those complaining gene with black always, may be u missed the recent previous 3 events where she didn’t wear black,,,,I love her dress so much and Rita’s short black dress,,,,,, way to go,,,,,,Omoni. oh Pls Omoni find yourself a stylist to help u put u on the road maan,,,,
Suffice it to say I agree with most of the comments 🙂 Didn’t look like a stuffy event… I like the dancing picture
It’s 2011. Please why are the ‘P-Square’ boys still dressing like this???????
Even being on a stage is inexcusable…. common’ already!
EKU EDEWOR. GBAM. IN EVERY OUTFIT.
rite ad the EKU rock it all.but they all are lukin great wit there outfit nigeria are tryin..
Rita is my girl anyday. But, do you want to turn white overnight? I understand if you want an eventone skin but turning white almost pale is not a good look at all. PLEASE RITA, STOP IT.
Mike and Keke look beautiful.
I have the biggest crush on Jamal Warner from Cosby show, good to see him in the motherland.
Rockmand Dunbar from Soul food, one of my favorite show, good to see you too.
Bantu is probably vegan, but can someone please toss him some burgers.
I love P sqaure, but seriously, they need to stop with the matching outfit and all white that they usually wear. Ok, we get it you guys are twins.
I notice a lot of chocolate women tend to stay away from color, but color compliments their skin tone very much. So, Genny, don’t run away from color, embrace it.
she said black is her favorite color…not that she is using black to run away from different colors.
Rita’s boobs were almost falling out in that runway outfit.It was cut a bit much but other than that, she killed that outfit!
That Memry Savanhu girl is a babe sha!
I coulda done without Dakore’s ball gown dress tho’…..a bit much for such an event don’t ya think?Something slim fitting coulda sufficed.But it wasn’t so bad still
BTW what in the world was the girl in the 15th picture from the top thinking?She looking tacky….and my gawd!Did she have to accessorize like that…….Wow!When will our people stop the matchy matchy craziness!
Under “Anwar Sadiqi, Maria Ast and Ayesha Omer” the two ladies there are Evelyn Egejuru and Nneoha Eziri. I shd know, I attended high school with them 🙂 On the whole…nice!
This Omono Oboli can like to wear nonsense
Happy looking people…9s’
Dakore is a germ,her skin is flawless, what does she use? Genny is always on point..
ok a lot of wacky dressers, the Eku girl is one hawt tamale, rita dominic should hav vehemently refused modeling that dress- very -, Gideon watchu got in ur pants teeehehehe, Nneka and denrele should hook up: they’d “get” each other, girl behind genevieve eeeerm choking perhaps?, p-square eeeew stop that aso-ebi crap already, mike and keke-well i actually mean keke, hot mami!!!omoni, shaking my head for u
Ok.. am not hating here 🙂 Barbara Ukattah looks pale; don’t get me wrong, I love her outfits. Rita, could lay off the bleaching – I am serious!!!! I know the guy Chineze Anyaene is with, he works at Odeon Cinema London @ Greenwich; I recognised him. Genevieve Nnaji looks good, so effortlessly. Omoni Oboli looks great. Tonye Faloughi, I don’t think she is very particular about her appearance – she doesn’t make and put that effort into her appearance. Na wah oh..
PSquare; those sexy looking brothers, mehn, I am trying to take deep breaths *oweee*
It looks like a nice and well put together event. 🙂
Look at Rockmond Dunbar and Malcolm Jamal-Warner. Vivica Anjanetta Fox, please we await your visit, and not forgetting Queen Latifah, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey visits…
Lots of love xx
pls tell african girls that they beautiful when they look brown,coffee,chocolate,coffee brown u name . this urge or desire to become light skin has become an obcession in nollywood almost every girl wants to be white and naturally fair ones want to become albinos.pls help me tell’em they are gorgeous even in dark skin.
my dear, help me tell them. look at mike and his wife who are naturally fair. they still look normal not like the rest competing with beyonce and rihanna in the bleachers competition
Nneoha Eziri n Evelyn looking so astonishing.Riri always elegant,keke n mike beautiful coups.
keke is gorgeous abeg kai! beautiful smile and i love wen mike smiles.. definitely my fav celeb couple
Mike n Keke are my new fav couple. Mike’s wife is hella CUTEEEE! They just radiate love n goodness and everything wonderful. Bro Mike, u done gooood!
In all, the event looks great n guests dressed the part. Hope it leads to better content, quality, acting etc from our film industry.
They all look ravishing n take home,mike n keke lovely couples God bless your union.
BN gals are as accurate as it gets… It would be great to see Rita with a fake tan. This lighter, lighter look can be so ageing if aided. Apart from that, ppl looked great. BN keep the good work up.
Eku edewor looks stunning as usual. N d pics r rili nice
Isn’t that the african american actor from soul food that’s clapping his hands in a pic with rita dominic?
nope that is ntare guma ,a ugandan Hollywood actor,h is great n has apereared in several things including heroes. google him.
Nneoha. Haaaa, where will u not go. Take am easy oh
MIKE & KEKE!
WOW!
Awwww, chei Mike tek eye go Market o…….. Wohooooo and she used to live here in Canada so I like her even more.
dunbar…….he was on prison break too and i heard that his wife is a nigerian….well, that’s what ovation said.
Awwwwwwww, Mike n Keke Ezuruonye!
Why does Genny have only one pic of her? Don’t we all know who the superstar there is and we demand to see more pics of her rather a bias of rita’s everywhere. And what’s it abt Genny loving black? Its called choice moreover rita was also on black and so was dakore. Genny looks stunning never the less and chineze and dakore does too
GENE LOOKS GREAT! I’m usually tired of her in black, but she looked so effortless here…LOVE IT.
Rita Dominic (in the pic next to Eku)…dress does not fit her; she looks good in the short black one though.
Mike and Keke…..so cute!!
Dakore “Akande” damn, i gotta get used to that. haha
Nneka looks super cute and girly! when she first came out, i never thought she’d EVER wear anything like that. love how she doesn’t overkill with the makeup either. still very natural.
Eku Edewor looks great, anyone know who her outfit is by?
Omoni in the black and white, BAD CHOICE OF SHOES! (why is it so hard for people to get it right when it comes to the shoes? do they not think the shoes are essential, or what?)
NICE EVENT! i guess Port Harcourt is on the rise…
BN where is my comment! so its only sweet comments u now publish! ok I shall only say sweet things, hmmmm it would be boring
Mike and wife…..muahz!!!!!!!!!
Dakore is lookn good each passn day, Genny go gurl yhu lookd astonished dont mind the haters. Mike nd keke hmmnnmmn am short of words cos yhu guys look so beatiful and compatible. Rita why do yhu want to turn urself to a white woman? watch it gurl…
Keke and Mike are my picture of the event, they look so cute!!! Genevieve places a close second, I AGREE without whoever said she looked effortlessly beautiful! And for those of you hating on her choice of black, at least she knows what suits her and carries it well, and she doesn’t wear the same outfit to every event! Even if she did, we would still love her!
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the yellow and brown jumpsuit eku is wear is not by JBL!!!!!! Nigerians you don’t waste time to copy o!!!!!
Genevieve is Beautiful! her skin is flawless 🙂
Jenny is were beauty ends
Mike and keke so adorable
Ve anyone noticed dat the longer couples live together, d more they look alike.An example is my own parents (32 years in marriage); so Keke & Mike maybe in 10years time pple ll be asking if both of u re twins. Cheerish ur ur couple smile n glow.
Genny….u ROCK gurl. Am your No 1 fan
THE GUY SITTING NEXT TO RITA IS AN AMERICAN ACTOR! HE ACTED IN TYLER PERRYS FAMILY THAT PREYS!!
rita dominic did it , genevieve also did it , buh nneka : best dressed 4 me , she looked so ’17yrs old’ ……………meanwhile dat mike wife make sense oooooo , d guy get eye