Carolyn Seaman: We Have To Question Why We Have Very Few Women Involved In Filmmaking

Carolyn Seaman, Founder of the Girls Voices Initiative and Festival Director, Women International Film Festival Nigeria, in an interview with ARISE, says the process of filmmaking in Nigeria has been domesticated to be a masculine role and as such women have found it difficult to get in and when they do, they don’t get the recognition that men get.

Hence the initiative to celebrate women filmmakers who are inspirations to the younger generation and a motivation for women to keep occupying the film space.

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