Director Foley Ellis Ibidapo has joined the roster of The Collective @ LAIR.
Ibidapo is a multi-award winning, Nigerian-Jamaican-American director with a cinematic style that he’s applied to a body of work which includes spots, short films and documentaries. A producer, writer, strategist and director, he has worked on all sides of production. The up-and-coming helmer started his advertising career in content shops that have given him a holistic view of his clients’ needs, and he has since grown to write, produce and direct.
His work has been screened at the Rapport Festival, The Roxbury International Film Festival, San Francisco Black Film Festival, and Women Media Arts and Film Festival. In addition, Ibidapo has received Telly and SABRE Awards, was selected to pitch his short film Viva Valet to Create the Writers Room and earned a slot in SHOOT’s 2020 New Directors Showcase. He made the SHOOT Showcase cut largely on the strength of his short film, Lucy.
Full Lineup Set For AFI Fest; Official Selections Span 44 Countries, Include 9 Best International Feature Oscar Submissions
The American Film Institute (AFI) has unveiled the full lineup for this year’s AFI Fest, taking place in Los Angeles from October 23-27. Rounding out the slate of already announced titles are such highlights as September 5 directed by Tim Fehlbaum, All We Imagine As Light directed by Payal Kapadia, The Luckiest Man in America directed by Samir Oliveros (AFI Class of 2019), Zurawski v. Texas from executive producers Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence and directors Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, and Oh, Canada directed by Paul Schrader (AFI Class of 1969). A total of 158 films are set to screen at the 38th edition of AFI Fest.
Of the official selections, 48% are directed by women and non-binary filmmakers and 26% are directed by BIPOC filmmakers.
Additional festival highlights include documentaries Architecton directed by Victor Kossakovsky; Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie directed by David Bushell; Devo directed by Chris Smith about the legendary new wave provocateurs; Gaucho Gaucho directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw; Group Therapy directed by Neil Berkeley with Emmy® winner Neil Patrick Harris and Tig Notaro; No Other Land directed by a Palestinian-Israeli team comprised of Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal; Pavements directed by Alex Ross Perry; and Separated directed by Errol Morris. Notable narrative titles include Black Dog (Gou Zen) directed by Guan Hu; Bonjour Tristesse directed by Durga Chew-Bose with Academy Award® nominee Chloë Sevigny; Caught By The Tides directed by Jia Zhangke; Hard Truths directed by Mike Leigh with... Read More