AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL ATLANTA (AFFA) is a signature event of the African Film & Arts Foundation Inc, a non-profit media arts organization whose mission is to magnify and celebrate the visions, voices, lives and stories of people from Africa and the African Diaspora.

The goal of AFFA is to be part of the conversation as well as provide action-driven input in improving the image of the continent through the showcase of films that change the narrative of people of African descent. By integrating with Atlanta’s unique features, as a dynamic social, educational, artistic, cultural and film production hub, AFFA’s goal is to showcase passions, subtleties and trends in African cinema.

The African Film & Arts Foundation is pleased to announce the inaugural launch of the 1st African Film Festival Atlanta. Due to COVID-19, our inaugural launch will be conducted online as a mini-film festival. The three-day festival will be held online from November 20th – 22nd 2020. For our first year, we will be celebrating films from and about Nigeria and Nigerians in solidarity with the EndSars movement currently occurring in Nigeria.

With the spread of Nigeria pop music like Afrobeats, the popularity some of its industries like Nollywood (Nigerian Film Industry – which is purported to be the 2nd largest distributor of films in the world) and the running joke of the Jollof rice Wars, we no longer have that “single story” about Nigeria. Technology and social media have helped springboard multiple homogeneous stories about Nigeria.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-w69bfZluI

Ms Mojisola Sonoiki has over 20 years experience curating, programming, and consulting on various Film Festivals and Cultural Events around the world. She’s been the Juror & Programmer & guest speaker panelist on several national and international film festivals including the BronzeLens Film Festival in Atlanta, the Yale University African Film Festival, Zuma Film Festival, Abuja, Lagos International Film Festival, Black Filmmakers Magazine Film Festival in London and she was the curator for the Women and Earth film festival in Accra, Ghana

Her production company, Iyàlódè Productions produced WOCAF (Women of Color Arts & Film Festival) in Atlanta, a short documentary “Occupy Naija”, an insider’s view of the Occupy Nigeria demonstrations of 2012, co-wrote a made for TV film “Mixed Feelings” which aired on the cable channel, Ebony Life TV in Nigeria in 2015 and created an award-winning docu-interview web series “Indigo Tongues” which showcases trailblazers from Africa and the Diaspora. The Africa Film Festival Atlanta is a project she feels passionate about whose aim is to bring Africa to the world through the media.