31ST October 2013 when we all stayed awake as the nations had their final day to pour in their entries to the 86th Academy Awards, fondly called the Oscars, for the Best Foreign Language Film category.
This year we had four African entries. The nation of Chad entered ‘GriGris’; Egypt entered ‘Winter of Discontent’; Morocco entered Les chevaux de Dieu (Horses of God) and South Africa entered ‘Four Corners’. South Africa has been one of the few consistent African nations but not a lot of noise has been made about Four Corners (their 10th entry so far), a fairly unknown film. Chad’s ‘GriGris’ on the other hand is easily the most successful of these four titles.
Nollywood, Africa’s biggest film industry and the second biggest globally did not have any entry and has never had an entry. Nollywood is lavishly celebrating 20 years, so it is indeed a year of expectation for African Cinema Film Enthusiasts the world over. A year we thought would provide us a debut to the Oscars.
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