Ibekwe wins best film prize @ Ecrans Noire filmfest

Chike Ibekwe, whose project “Letter to the
Prof” is slated for the Babylon International
Assisted Funds, has continue to add more
feathers to his cap. The young Nigerian film
maker won the Best Film Prize award at the
just concluded 14th Ecrans Noire Film Festival
in Cameroun.
Ibekwe’s “Eternal” shared the Golden Screen
best film award with “An Unusual Woman”
by Abdoulaye Dao, a director from Burkina
Faso. His film was the only Nigerian film in
competition with other outstanding features
from France, Haiti, and other countries but it
came out tops.
“Eternal”, a 94 -minute film, tells the story of
two Nigerian soldier friends, and members
of the West African intervention force,
ECOMOG, Dozie and Chima on peace keeping
in Sierra Leone. Unfortunately, Chima is killed
in a car accident as they head to base after a
social event.
Ibekwe
A devastated Dozie finds himself
overwhelmed by the ghost of Chima after a
long and protracted mourning, a
symptomatic of a continued bond. Funding
for the film project was from France.
The film was selected and screened at Film
festival d ’armiens in France in 2008 and at
ZUMA Film festival in Nigeria in 2008.His
second film, Letter to the Professor features
Prof. Wole Soyinka, the first African Nobel
laureate in Literature.