With A Will of Iron, Nigeria’s Mobolaji Adeolu @Moboade Gets Selected in Sundance Short Film Challenge
In 2014 Sundance Institute started a new project named “Short Film Challenge”
that will use independent filmmaking to shed light on poverty and
hunger around the world. The competition, which received support from
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, invited three-to-eight-minute
submissions of either documentary or narrative form that depict
innovations made by individuals to combat poverty.
This year, Nigeria’s Mobolaji Adeolu with the film “A Will of Iron”
made the cut. Four other winning narrative and documentary short films
were also selected from 1,387 submissions representing 69 different
countries. The films and filmmakers presenting their world premieres
28th January, 2015 at the festival are; Man in the Maze by Phil Buccellato and Jesse Ash, Dropping In by Willem Van Den Heever, Isabelle’s Garden by Jeffrey Palmer, 175 Grams by Bharat Mirle, A Will of Iron by Mobolaji Adeolu.
Tomorrow’s program would include short
film premieres by Sundance Institute alumni Gael Garcia Bernal, Heidi
Ewing, Rachel Grady, Diego Luna, and Marialy Rivas.
A Will of Iron is a true life
story of a blacksmith living under the 3rd Mainland Bridge with his wife
and child for almost 15 years. He shares his struggles and hopes while
living under the bridge. The 3rd Mainland Bridge is Nigeria’s longest
bridge at 11.8km in length.
The competition was designed to use the
transformative power of storytelling to generate discussion, shift
perceptions around extreme hunger and poverty, and harness the power of
independent film to create a global conversation about these issues.
Each of the selected Short Films will be awarded $10,000 – https://tongal.com/project/Sundance
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Sundance Website – www.sundance.org/anotheryou
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