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Many were shocked when Pamela Adie, the producer of Nigeria’s first lesbian feature film, Ife announced that it will be released online.
“In Nigeria, there has never been a film like Ife.No film has had the impact it will have, or already has in Nigeria … The reception to the poster and the trailer has been mad. We expect that it will be madder when the full film is released,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Though the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) is set not to approve Ife for distribution, Adie said she plans to unveil it on an online on-demand platform later this year.
“Anyone who wants to watch will be able to do so from anywhere in the world,” she said, refusing to give further details.
Directed by Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim, Ife – which means love in the Yoruba language, stars Uzoamaka Aniunoh and Cindy Amadi.
As at the time of filing this report, the trailer has been watched over 4,000 times.
The filmmaker, Adie came out of the closet in 2011, announcing in 2017 that she will marry her lesbian partner on July, 23, 2018. Sadly, the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has refused to register her NGO Lesbian Equality and Empowerment Initiative (LEEI).