Pantheras 2022–2027, Project
[Pantheras 2027 — Core of the Project, Kpo Fire 2027]
Pantheras 2022–2027, Project
[Pantheras 2027 — Core of the Project, Kpo Fire 2027]
Pantheras, Project (2022–2025), comprises the film Pantheras (2027) — core of the project, and the installation Kpo Fire (2027)
Despite the valuable crude oil that flows from the ground beneath their feet, the people of the Niger Delta wage a conflicted daily struggle to survive. With the end of the fossil fuel age on the horizon, Pantheras delves into the complexity of Nigeria’s smuggling ideologies and clandestine economies, exploring the neoliberal risks of neocolonialism.
The project was self-initiated.
PANTHERAS
(in postproduction)
PANTHERAS
(in postproduction)
Feature film
Production: Primeira Idade, Folk Films
Coproduction: Lamaland
Development support: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Fritt Ord Foundation, Vestnorsk Filmsenter, Garantir Cultura, Norwegian Film Institute
Development award: Catapulta 2021 FICUNAM – Festival Internacional de Cine de la UNAM, FIDLab 2023 FID Marseille (Vidéo de Poche)
Selected: CHP: FORUM 2024 CPH: DOX
Additional support: MacDowell, Camargo Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, Film Study Center – Harvard University, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs — Northwestern University
CEFO — Premium Logistics, YEAC - Youths and Environmental Advocacy Center, UNEP — United Nations Environment Program, HYPREP - Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, Nigeria Federal Ministry of Environment, Screen
Support: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual,
Norwegian Film Institute
(in development)
Video installation
Production: Lamaland
Coproduction: Primeira Idade
Support: MACE — Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, DGArtes – Direção-Geral das Artes
Produced with materials from Pantheras (2027)
Production: Primeira Idade, Folk Films
Coproduction: Lamaland
Development support: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, Fritt Ord Foundation, Vestnorsk Filmsenter, Garantir Cultura, Norwegian Film Institute
Development award: Catapulta 2021 FICUNAM – Festival Internacional de Cine de la UNAM, FIDLab 2023 FID Marseille (Vidéo de Poche)
Selected: CHP: FORUM 2024 CPH: DOX
Additional support: MacDowell, Camargo Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, Film Study Center – Harvard University, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs — Northwestern University
CEFO — Premium Logistics, YEAC - Youths and Environmental Advocacy Center, UNEP — United Nations Environment Program, HYPREP - Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, Nigeria Federal Ministry of Environment, Screen
Support: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual,
Norwegian Film Institute
KPO FIRE
(in development)
Video installation
Production: Lamaland
Coproduction: Primeira Idade
Additional support: CEFO — Premium Logistics, YEAC - Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre, UNEP — United Nations Environment Programme, HYPREP - Hydrocarbon Polution Remediation Project, Nigeria Federal Ministry of Environment, Screen
Produced with materials from Pantheras (2027)
A multichannel video installation around the illegal refining of crude oil in Nigeria's Niger Delta region.
