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The movie Ayaka is a journey into the dark reverie of a lovelorn Okwy.
The harvest of love over evil… A story inspired by real events.’
The movie featured Nigerian Film Industry veteran Pete Edochie,Steve Onu aka Yaw Yaw, Chika Chukwu, Tana Adelana,Bayray Mcwizu, Daniel Llyod, Stan Chibunna aka Funny Bone.

Ayaka is written and Produce by Chinwe Egwuagu

SYNOPSIS:
YVES 30’S a taxi driver cruising on his cab among a deserted area, he
witnesses a man pestering a young lady SOPHIA 28 on top of a table from
this dodgy area. In this case, Yves stops and goes on to take a car jack
from his car and goes to intervene on the struggle between Sophia and the
man, thus saving her as the man runs away and Yves asks if he
should take her to the hospital, but Sophia appreciates his help and asks
if he can just take her home.

MARTIN 28 in his room with void, he is busy typing something on the type
writer, while he listens to music from the radio. Yves drives two young
ladies BIBISCH and PAMELA (prostitutes) and as he arrives on their
destination, Pamela discovers that the fare is too much and tries to seduce
the uptight driver to no success on her efforts and Bibisch appears
somewhat annoyed by this. Martin arrives at his apartment, along with his
colleague and friend OMEGA 30’s, as they start to engage in a conversation
and after Martin’s few attempts to convince her to taste some of his wine,
Omega notices a photo of a young lady and asks Martin about it, after some
hesitation from Martin, he finally opens up and tells her that it’s her
late girlfriend that was a victim of gang rape as he expresses his anger.
Sophia wakes to find next to her, her little sister MIMI 17 sitting up with
a saddened look on her face and as Sophia wonders what’s up and Mimi
telling her that she’s just hungry, Sophia starts to have an outburst as
she finds her sister’s attitude too much that she can handle. Martin stops
his car at a sidewalk consisting of a couple of prostitutes. Out of all the
ladies, he is struck by JUNE’S beauty and he summons her to his car. Later,
Martin in his bed along with June engage in an awkward, yet captivating
conversation, with him letting June know that he’s a writer for radio and
June seems impressed.
At a massage parlour a receptionist lady, introduces JOHN 30 to a young
lady CARINE that works as a massage therapist. As Carine starts to work her
magic on John and John admiring the massage experience starting small talk,
the receptionist comes back momentarily to inform John that Carine is
actually mute. Yves from the pavement listening to Omega on the radio from
his car, he gets approached by his friend Michelle who helps Yves out as he
jump starts his car and following this encounter they part ways, with Yves
telling Michelle they should meet once in a while just to reflect on life.
Martin rests on his bedroom’s floor face first with an empty whiskey bottle
in hand and thus Omega comes in and as she wonders what has happened to him
and the fact that he’s not responding,she calls an ambulance.

June sits on a toilet seat and holds up a pregnancy test stick and
discovers that she’s pregnant due to her sexual engagements with Martin,
she finds it hard to believe. Sophia gets attacked and stabbed by the same
guy that Yves saved him from the first time they met and thereafter the man
leaves her wounded on the ground. Therefore, Yves as he drives by he
notices Sophia and goes on to attend to her and when he discovers what has
happened, trying to call the ambulance, Sophia tells him not to bother and
that he should promise that he’ll take care of her younger sister Mimi thus
she passes on. Carine is shocked when she discovers that a cab that she and
John rode on is driven by his husband Yves, with John oblivious to the
occurrence, Yves is disappointed to know that his wife has been cheating
all along. Omega in an emotional bulletin on her radio show, she pays
homage to his recently passed friend and colleague Martin, saying it’s
her 99th night presenting his writings.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY MARIUS BONFEU THE FILMMAKER

Marius Bonfeu is an exciting young African filmmaker  from Cameroun base in South Africa who has already achieved numerous successes.
He co-wrote and directed and produced 99th Night his first feature film 2015.
His 2 minutes short film, Hold Strong won the award for best Short film at the Canada International Film

Festival “Vue D’Afrique”; was nominated for best short film at the 2013 FIBIC Best short Film (Cameroon),
Best Short film International Short Film Festival in 2014(Festival Paul Simon France)2014.
He has embarked on two separate global treks that gave him a traveller’s perspective on different cultures
in Cameroon and South Africa. He has also worked as a ‘books’ writer and script writer for various films.

Film documentary Struggles of Youth (23min) 2013, The Joys of Dancing 2013, Before You Come to SA…
He has written and directed for several short film documentary and TV dramas including Collinear,
Number 9 and Mabah. He is currently working on a feature film with Yves Salankang.

“Harida has a gift which makes her extra-ordinary and changes her life forever. In the wake of mysterious events taking place in her life, her fiancé David who works with one of the nation’s biggest organizations stumbles on some incriminating evidence on one of the company’s projects involving an illegal land lease deal on the boarders of Cameroon.

Against insurmountable pressure from top officials to drop the case, David’s goal is to expose those involved and bring them to justice in the bid to fight corruption. As David threatens to go to the EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) with his findings, all hell lets loose and the inevitable takes place. Harida’s gift is tested as she risks her own life to continue David’s fight. “REMEMBER ME” is a captivating, thrilling story about a young girl who struggles with an unusual gift of astral projections and the fight to reveal the truth.

IZU OJUKWU Film Director

Izu Ojukwu is one of the most able and dedicated film directors presently working in Nigeria.He has won many awards which includs the African Movie Academy Award for Best Director for the film Sitanda which received 9 nominations and won 5 awards at the 3rd African Movie Academy Awards including Best Picture & Best Nigerian Film.

LOS ANGELES, CA – Actors Olivia Munn and Jason Segel will host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation on Saturday, February 13, at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. They will present 11 awards to 33 individual recipients and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers during the evening.
“The Sci-Tech Awards Presentation is one of our special events during Oscar® season, and we’re thrilled to have Olivia and Jason as this year’s hosts,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “Their humor and charm will be terrific complements to the brilliance of our colleagues and their outstanding scientific and technical achievements.”
Munn’s feature film credits include “Ride Along 2,” now in theaters, as well as “Mortdecai,” “Deliver Us from Evil” and “Magic Mike.” She also starred in the critically acclaimed series “The Newsroom” for three seasons. Munn will appear as Psylocke in the upcoming X-Men sequel “X-Men: Apocalypse.”
Segel currently stars in James Ponsoldt’s dramatic biopic, “The End of the Tour,” in which he plays David Foster Wallace. His other film credits include “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (writer), “The Muppets” (writer, producer), “Get Him to the Greek” (writer, co-producer), “I Love You, Man” and “Knocked Up.” On television, Segel starred in “How I Met Your Mother” and “Freaks and Geeks.” Additionally, Segel is an author for a children’s middle-grade fiction series titled “Nightmares!”
Portions of the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation will be included in the Oscar telecast.
Popular Mechanics is a proud supporter of the Scientific and Technical Awards.
The 88th Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

In 1990, He Isolated Himself In A Desert. 25 Years Later, THIS Was Discovered. INCREDIBLE!
In the history of art there’s only been one artist who was crazy enough to carve a mountain… until now. It took Gutzon Borglum 14 years and 400 workers to sculpt Mt. Rushmore, but artist Ra Paulette has been working alone for 25 years, using no power tools to transform these New Mexico cave system into one of a kind piece of art.

Some might call him crazy, but in reality, this is the man who found his passion. It’s weird that Ra’s work has been relatively unnoticed until recently when the documentary about his never-ending endeavor got an Oscar nomination and people began recognizing his work. Epic.

At the 13th edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 14 to 16, 2016), a select group of 36 new feature film projects from 29 different countries will be able to forge international co-production and financing partnerships. In addition, five renowned companies will be presented in the scope of the market’s exclusive company matching programme.

During the three-day event, producers have the chance to meet, in pre-arranged one-on-one meetings, interested potential partners from a participant pool composed of 500 producers and film financiers from all around the world.

From a total of 301 submissions, 20 promising feature film projects were chosen for the official selection. These projects are all being developed by internationally experienced producers and have already secured domestic production support or at least 30 percent of their budget. Budgets for the projects range from 1 to 9.6 million euros.

In co-operation with CineMart Rotterdam, three projects have also been selected again for the “Rotterdam-Berlinale Express”. These projects will participate both at CineMart and at the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

The filmmakers of the 2015 Berlinale Residency programme will also be returning to Berlin in February: Fernando Eimbcke, Ella Manzheeva and Daniel Borgman will be back, together with their producers, to present the projects that they developed here last autumn.

At the “Talent Project Market”, which is organised in co-operation with Berlinale Talents, ten up-and-coming producers, chosen from a total of 152 applicants, will present their projects on the international market.

Among the directors of the selected projects are familiar names such as Ciro Guerra, whose Embrace of the Serpent was presented as a project at a past edition of the market and is shortlisted for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, Jasmila Zbanic, winner of the Golden Bear in 2006, Irish director Mark Noonan, who presented his debut film You’re Ugly Too last year at the Berlinale in theGeneration Kplus programme and is currently working on his second feature film, as well as a host of other equally acclaimed directors such as Diego Lerman, Oliver Schmitz, Brandon Cronenberg and Alvaro Brechner.

In addition to the meetings with potential partners, which are specifically co-ordinated to meet the participants’ concrete needs, projects also have the chance to win one of three awards at the event. In addition to the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, with prize money of 20,000 euros, the VFF Talent Highlight Pitch Award, worth 10,000 euros, and the ARTE International Prize, worth 7,000 euros, will also be presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

The five companies in the company matching programme hail from Brazil, Germany, France, Italy and Canada. The 500 other participants can also request one-on-one meetings with these companies to exchange information on a structural level or on the basis of project slates, and to start to consider long-term co-operations.

There are at least six films in the festival programme of the upcoming Berlinale that were presented as projects at the Berlinale Co-Production Market. These projects networked with partners for co-production, world sales, TV, distribution, and financing here in previous years: United States of Love by Tomasz Wasilewski is in Competition, while The Wounded Angel by Emir Baigazin, Remainder by Omer Fast, Aloys by Tobias Nölle, Uncle Howard by Aaron Brookner and Sand Storm by Elite Zexer are all being screened in Panorama.

Main partners of the Berlinale Co-Production Market are MDM – Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and Creative Europe MEDIA, a programme of the European Union.

The Berlinale Co-Production Market is a part of the European Film Market.
The Berlin House of Representatives, which is located right across from the European Film Market in the Martin-Gropius-Bau, will once again serve as a co-operation partner and main venue for the event.

Official Project Selection for Berlinale Co-Production Market 2016
(in alphabetical order according to production company):
– Hostages (D: Rezo Gigineishvili), 20 Steps Productions, Georgia
– The Little Comrade (D: Moonika Siimets), Amrion, Estonia
– A Sort of Family (D: Diego Lerman), Campo Cine, Argentina
– The Crooked Horn (D: Esmaeel Monsef), Caractères Productions & Alias Films, France
– Blind Willows, Sleeping Woman (D: Pierre Földes), Cinema Defacto, Frankreich & Proton Cinema, Hungary
– Srebrenica (D: Jasmila Zbanic), Deblokada, Bosnia and Herzegovina
– The Desert Bride (D: Cecilia Atán & Valeria Pivato), El Perro en la Luna, Argentinina & Ceibita Films, Chile
– Butterfingers (D: Barnaby Southcombe), Embargo Films, United Kingdom
– Vivarium (D: Lorcan Finnegan), Fantastic Films, Ireland
– Amundsen (D: Roar Uthaug), Friland Produksjon, Norway
– Invite Me to War (D: Shariff Korver), Lemming Film, Netherlands
– The Guest (D: Duccio Chiarini), Mood Film, Italy
– Outside (D: Michal Hogenauer), Negativ, Czech Republic
– Patrick (D: Gonçalo Waddington), O Som e a Fúria, Portugal
– Tyger, Tyger (D: Mark Noonan), Savage Productions, Ireland
– The Farm (D: Oliver Schmitz), Shadowy Meadows Productions, South Africa & Busse & Halberschmidt Filmproduktion, Germany
– Echo (D: Arati Kadav), Sikhya Entertainment, India
– A Small Small World (D: Philip Haucke), Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, Germany
– Memories from the Cell (D: Alvaro Brechner), Tornasol Films, Spain
– Bayonette (D: Kyzza Terrazas), Woo Films & Redrum, Mexico

„Rotterdam Berlinale Express“:
– Birds of Passage (D: Ciro Guerra), Ciudad Lunar & Blond Indian Films, Colombia
– Slam (D: Partho Sen-Gupta), Invisible Republic, Australia
– Bootlegger (D: Caroline Monnet), Microclimat Films, Canada

Projects of Berlinale Residency:
– Across the Fields (D: Daniel Borgman), Adomeit Film, Denmark
– Tachal (D: Ella Manzheeva), Anniko Films & Telesto Film Company, Russian Federation
– Diary of an Elephant (D: Fernando Eimbcke), Cinepantera, Mexico

„Talent Project Market“ (in alphabetical order according to production company):
– The Fading Light of Neon Boy (P: Jessica Luz), Besouro Filmes, Brazil
– From Grace (P: Gary Cranner), Chezville, Norway
– Lucid (P: Raquelle David), Damsel Pictures, Australia
– The Disappeared (P: Emine Yildirim), Giyotin Film, Turkey
– Summer 1993 (P: Valerie Delpierre), Inicia Films, Spain
– Money for a Funeral (P/D: Magdelena Ilieva), Little Wing Productions, Bulgaria
– Transmorphosis (P/D: Jakob M. Erwa), Mojo:Pictures, Germany
– The Moto Snatcher (P: Cecilia Salim), Murillo Cine, Argentina
– Tank (P: Max Serdiuk), Noosphere Films, Ukraine
– The Gospel According to My Father (P: Stav Meron), Pardes Films, Israel

Company Matching (in alphabetical order according to company):
Gullane, Brazil
Komplizen Film, Germany
Lucky Red, Italy
Memento Films, France
The Film Farm, Canada
Press Office
January 14, 2016
Press contact: press@berlinale.de