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The annual African AI Film Festival is opening a new stage for African and African-diaspora storytellers using artificial intelligence. Launching its inaugural edition in November 2026, the African AI Film Festival is the first global stage dedicated to African and African-diaspora filmmakers reimagining cinema with artificial intelligence.  The festival brings together Africa’s storytelling traditions with the newest creative technologies, creating a platform where filmmakers can explore new ways of telling authentic African stories.  By hosting live events in both Hollywood and Kampala, the festival creates a bridge between African storytelling and the global AI filmmaking community.  Festival: African AI Film Festival - live in Hollywood (Nov 21) & Kampala, Uganda (Dec 12) Submit (free for Africa-based + emerging): filmfreeway.com/AfricanAIFilmFestival Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1210632566  Website: africanaifilmfestival.org  Recent feature (for referenc...

Listen on Suno   My Beautiful Guitarist My beautiful guitarist Plucking my heartstrings Strumming my heart and soul Stirring up my passion and my spirit. My beautiful guitarist I have been waiting for so long To sing to you my love song. I can hear your heartbeat As I hold you close to my chest. My beautiful guitarist Oh! My beautiful guitarist I thank God I have found you My dream has come true. - By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Monday night, November 25, 2024. Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Original lyrics by EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima Music by Suno Photograph of guitar with flowers: Feyza Tuğba - Photography https://www.pexels.com/@feyza-tugba-25430275/  @© All rights reserved  - 

  Listen on Suno In loving memory of my beloved mother, Gladys Onuamaighiuwa Eke who taught Igbo folk songs and folk stories. Nne Nnem  Udu Udu I use to fetch water. Udu Udu, I carry to the stream Udu I cannot go to the stream  Without my Udu.

Raees (transl. Rich) is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language gangster action film directed by Rahul Dholakia and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, and Gauri Khan under Excel Entertainment and Red Chillies Entertainment. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Mahira Khan in her only Hindi acting credit. The film was reported to be based on the life of criminal Abdul Latif, however the makers have denied this claim. The film's soundtrack was composed by Ram Sampath, which received over 1.6 billion streams on YouTube" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raees_(2017_film)#:~:text=Raees%20(transl,streams%20on%20YouTube .

  Title by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima Storytelling arrangement by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima Photographs by C ottonbro Studio - Photography https://www.pexels.com/@cottonbro/ 

  I see the dancing butterflies Hovering above the hibiscus flowers. Dancing as the snowdrops fall from the skies The snowdrops like heavenly showers. - EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima, Sunday, July 19, 2026. Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. © All rights reserved. Still life art photography. Available for private and public art auction or exhibition. Bids from US$500 (five hundred dollars). Artwork printing, on canvas substrate, such as Breathing Color Lyve: 24 x 24 inches $500 each 24 x 36 inches $550 each 36 x 48 inches $700 each Handling, packing $45 - $75  per shipment Fed Ex 2 Day shipping, estimated $135 -150 per shipment 

Nigerian Premiere of WAR ROOM with the Cinewav  Immersive Cinematic Experience! For the first time in Nigeria. DATE: Saturday July 25, 2026 TIME: 1.00PM PROMPT VENUE: GLORYPLUS INTERNATIONAL EVENT CENTRE  18, Kudirat Abiola Way, Beside GTBank, Oregun Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. "WAR ROOM" is a powerful film by the  Kendrick Brothers, the award-winning creators of Fireproof and Courageous.  This film on the awesome power of faith in Almighty God by a true believer has inspired moviegoers to start fighting their battles the right way—through prayer. #God #Jesus #warroom #faith #christianity #prayer #power #cinewav #cinema #nigeria #movies #sound

  From my composition, "Your Majesty", a classical spiritual with Gregorian chant. My father understood latin and had a violin he often played and singing his impromptu songs from his imagination. I compose the lyrics and the tunes and I work with a musician who studied music to produce the songs. I studied rudiments of music on my own. I use "DRMFSLTD", the syllables of the major scale in tonic solfa notation (also known as Solfége): Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do. Widely used in sight-singing, choral practice, and elementary music education, this framework helps musicians learn relative pitch intervals and sing in tune. The Caucasian dancers in the video are not AI.  I got the video that would sync with my composition. It was not easy. The original ballerina in the story is Lucinda Uchenna, a young beautiful black British Ballerina who will be attacked and raped on her way home from rehearsals for the premiere of "Your Majesty", the new musical of the R...