Nigeria International Film And TV Summit Unveils Speakers, Theme

The Nigeria International Film and TV Summit has unveiled the theme and speakers for this year's summit set to be held in the United Kingdom with film delegates in attendance seeking distribution deals or production partnerships with studio executives. 

With a working theme of 'Streaming Wars: The Implications of Content Monetisation for Film and TV Content', more than 50 filmmakers, distributors and content executives are confirmed to be in attendance at this year’s Nigerian International film and TV Summit.

The Nigerian International film and TV summit is a yearly program that assembles domestic Film and TV Investors with the goal of examining issues related to the business of film in Nigeria.

The summit this year is scheduled for August 29 to September 1, with four notable speakers and leaders in the Nigerian entertainment industry taking the centre stage.

The keynote speakers are; John Momoh (Chairman, CEO and veteran broadcaster at Channels TV), Bola Atta (Executive Producer at REDTV), Ayanna Lonian (Director of content acquisitions for Africa at Amazon Prime Video) and Opeyemi Ajayi (Executive VP at Genesis Cinema and Chairman of the Cinema Exhibitors Association). 

The summit will engage a number of industry executives as speakers.

The speakers range from animation executives, content executives, film directors, and film producers, as well as investors interested in the African content space.

The activities mapped out for this summit include, but are not limited to; spotlighting the film industry, UK focus networking, VIP lunch, Welcome cocktail, dinner, UK and Nigeria co-productions pitch session, UK/Nigeria scriptwriting workshops, and screening of UK produced films.