KOFA won the awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor (Daniel Etim-Effiong).
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Jude Idada, acclaimed Nigerian writer, dramatist and filmmaker, recently won three major awards at the recently-concluded 2022 Globe Awards of the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) with his film, KOFA.
KOFA won the awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor (Daniel Etim-Effiong).
KOFA, a psychological thriller which revolves around eight characters caught in a web of confusion, stars Daniel Etim Effiong, Enyinna Nwigwe, Beverly Naya, Kate Henshaw, Ijeoma Grace Agu, Zainab Balogun, and Wole Ojo.
Idada said over KOFA’s win that, “KOFA is proof that once your heart and mind is in the right place, the impossible becomes possible. We made this film with love, grit, perseverance, and belief.”
Idada won the 2019 Nigerian Prize for Literature for his children’s book, Boom Boom. He won the Best Screenplay Award for his 2010 film, The Tenant.