Seunmanuel Faleye bags RTF HourGlass Award for DEEPER TRUTH
Nigerian filmmaker, Seunmanuel Faleye, bagged an award for Best Social Message with his Deeper Truth in Short Film category at the Real Time Film Festival, 20 Hours Film Challenge Awards.
The event, which held at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, on Saturday, March 30, was put together to honor filmmakers who took part in the RTF, 20Hours Film Challenge 2018; a challenge where filmmakers threw in their hats in the ring to make a movie in 20hours- from idea conception to post-production.
Cystal production, the team led by Faleye took part in the challenge; competing with nearly a hundred filmmakers.
Faleye’s team beat the record time by finishing their production in the 18th hour; while some teams got disqualified for not completing their project on the 20 hour schedule.
For his creativity and timely achievement, Seunmanuel Faleye received a Medal of Honor for producing Deeper Truth, while Deeper Truth bagged the RTF Hourglass Award for Short Film with Best Social Message.
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Members of the team were also recognized and were given certificates of participation in the challenge.
In his reaction, Faleye eulogized his team’s dedication while filming.
“To my team of sterling professionals, this is our feat. I raise a glass to you guys!!!
“The dedication you all brought to bare earned us this accomplishment,” he said.
“Worthy of mention was Moshood Owonikoko, whose wife was in labor while we were filming; I could tell his mind was at the hospital with his wife who was about to bear their first child. Yet, we worked all night and day, till the project completion.
Thankfully there’s a promising baby boy to show for that experience.
“To Hamzat Barshan, who was always resourceful to think through the creative process of the project… Every member of the team gave this their all. And I am delighted to have worked with you all.”
He dedicated the Award to the memory of Favor Christopher a member of cast who passed on in January 2019.
“I am specially dedicating this award to the living memory of Favor Christopher, who was part of the cast for Deeper Truth, but the baleful cold hands of death took her away in January. Rest on Favour.”
Deeper Truth is a 13 minutes short psycological thriller with a theme on religious violence and ethnic tolerance in Nigeria.
The film stars Bukky Thomas, Abdul Mohammed, Praise Garba, Nike Ayodele, Titilade Adeniran, Kheomizoner Babalola and others.
It was written by Andrew Simon and Seunmanuel Faleye, Directed by Seun Afolabi and cinematographed by Hamzat Barshan.
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