"The House of Nwapa" Project
Donation protected
Flora Nwapa, arguably, Africa's first female novelist, died in 1993. I was just 4 years old when she died. My mother lived with her and Chinua Achebe.
Her first novel, Efuru will be 50 years old this year. However, the little problem is that there is just one documentary on Flora Nwapa, made by a Norwegian TV channel. This was done in 1987, a year before I was born.
For the past two years, I have been filming, travelling and asking questions: Who is Flora Nwapa? What was her relationship with Chinua Achebe? Why did she marry another woman for her husband, Gogo Nwakuche?
I interviewed different people, from Africa's first Nobel Laureate for Literature, Wole Soyinka, to James Currey of Heinemann, down to Mabel Segun, presumed to be her rival and then to the three biological children of Flora Nwapa, Ejine, Amede and Uzoma and to German anthropologist, Sabine Jell-Bahlsen.
I filmed for two years with my personal savings. Now, I have received invitations to show my finished work at film festivals, but the post production has to be done and I need your financial support to make this happen.
My deadline is the end of April. For each donation I receive, I will acknowledge it, both here, on Facebook and also at the end of the film - during the credit sequence.
I have to take care of these:
1. Digital Editing
2. Picture editing
3. Sound editing
4. Automatic Dialogue Replacement.
5. Foley
6. Secure music
7. Re-recording/the mix
8. Getting an M&E
9. Getting my titles
10. Getting a DCP
11. Getting a dialogue script
12. Getting a campaign image
13. Getting a trailer
With your donations and contributions, I will be ready to show OUR documentary on Flora Nwapa to a global audience.
Her first novel, Efuru will be 50 years old this year. However, the little problem is that there is just one documentary on Flora Nwapa, made by a Norwegian TV channel. This was done in 1987, a year before I was born.
For the past two years, I have been filming, travelling and asking questions: Who is Flora Nwapa? What was her relationship with Chinua Achebe? Why did she marry another woman for her husband, Gogo Nwakuche?
I interviewed different people, from Africa's first Nobel Laureate for Literature, Wole Soyinka, to James Currey of Heinemann, down to Mabel Segun, presumed to be her rival and then to the three biological children of Flora Nwapa, Ejine, Amede and Uzoma and to German anthropologist, Sabine Jell-Bahlsen.
I filmed for two years with my personal savings. Now, I have received invitations to show my finished work at film festivals, but the post production has to be done and I need your financial support to make this happen.
My deadline is the end of April. For each donation I receive, I will acknowledge it, both here, on Facebook and also at the end of the film - during the credit sequence.
I have to take care of these:
1. Digital Editing
2. Picture editing
3. Sound editing
4. Automatic Dialogue Replacement.
5. Foley
6. Secure music
7. Re-recording/the mix
8. Getting an M&E
9. Getting my titles
10. Getting a DCP
11. Getting a dialogue script
12. Getting a campaign image
13. Getting a trailer
With your donations and contributions, I will be ready to show OUR documentary on Flora Nwapa to a global audience.
Organiser
Onyeka Nwelue
Organiser
