Orange Poetry Film Festival
Reframing the canvas through the African lens.
On 29 November 2024, Orange Poetry Africa convened poets, filmmakers, cultural workers and audiences around the possibilities of poetry film.
The first edition
Screening. Learning. Conversation. Connection.
The theme—“Reframing the Canvas: Telling Stories Through the African Lens”—brought screenings together with practical conversations about story, movement, screenwriting, funding and cultural memory.
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- 01Poetry on screen
Screenings that treated the poetry film as a serious artistic form.
- 02Story and cultural reflection
Conversation about how film carries memory, language and lived experience.
- 03Dance, performance and the camera
Exploring the body as part of poetic and cinematic storytelling.
- 04Writing, funding and production
Practical insight into screenwriting and the resources required to move an idea toward a finished film.
Original work
One Chance
A poetry short film about Bird, a young Nigerian poet whose journey to a slam becomes a meditation on ambition, insecurity and how easily a dream can be interrupted.
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Selected partners & collaborators
Good cultural work is built with people.
Organisations and creative communities that have supported, commissioned, hosted or built programmes with Orange Poetry Africa.
Apollo Endeavor
Savest Financial
Vic’Adex 60 Seconds Poetry
Tigray Coffee
Street Exchange
Konya Shamsrumi
Das UzeeProject collaborators
The festival record also includes venue and programme support from Roving Heights and AIP Festival, alongside the selected collaborators shown above.