Happy New Year, everyone! To kick off the new year nicely, we are unveiling the official poster for Hello, Rain as well as a Behind-the-Scenes sneak peek. As you know, we released the character posters early last month, and slowly we are building you up to......
Three years since it’s premiere at the 2014 Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), our debut effort – OJUJU is still winning. Last Sunday, December 17, OJUJU won four awards (Best Female Act, Best Make-Up, Best Supporting Male Act & Best Producer) out of 12 nominations......
Visions – the debut effort of the cinema collective Surreal16 has won the Jury Award for Best Film at the just concluded In-Short Film Festival award night, which took place on Saturday, 17th December at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos. The anthology short film which comprises......
Fiery Film has released the official character posters for the upcoming short film Hello, Rain based on Nnedi Okorafor’s afrofuturistic short story “Hello, Moto“. Are you excited yet?...
THE SURREAL16 COLLECTIVE MANIFESTO WHITE PAPER NOVEMBER 13, 2017. VERSION 1 NIGERIAN CINEMA The 1960s saw the first Nigerian films being made by the likes of Ola Balogun, Eddie Ugbomah, Jab Adu, Moses Olaiya and Herbert Ogunde. They struggled initially with the high cost of......
World Fantasy, Hugo & Nebula award winning author Nnedi Okorafor at the just concluded Ake Art & Book Festival talks about ongoing adaptations of her work which include “Who Fears Death” by HBO and the “Hello, Moto” adaptation by C.J. Obasi of Fiery Film right......
Filmmaker C.J. “Fiery” Obasi, whose latest work Hello, Rain, an adaptation of the short story Hello, Moto by Nnedi Okorafor finally got to meet the celebrated author at the just concluded Ake Arts & Book Festival, Abeokuta, Nigeria. The author whose novel Who Fears Death is......
The cast of Hello, Rain has been unveiled. The short film directed by C.J. “Fiery” Obasi from a short story by internationally acclaimed author Nnedi Okorafor will star Keira Hewatch as Rain, Tunde Aladese as Philo and Ogee Nelson as Coco. The casting choice is......
Visions, the anthology short by the Surreal16 Collective which comprises of filmmakers Abba T. Makama, C.J. “Fiery” Obasi and Michael Omonua will premiere at the prestigious Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) 2017. The film comprises of three short segments each directed by a member of......
Fiery Film’s debut OJUJU is still doing festival tours around the world, 3 years since its first festival premiere at Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) 2014, where it also won Best Nigerian Film. Writer/Director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi in a Facebook post said: “This no-budget effort......
