“Rule No 1” has emerged winner of the 2022 Abuja International Film Festival Award held on November 4, 2022 at the closing of the 19th Abuja International Festival and Award Night.
The theme of the festival was “Challenges and Prospects of Digital Streaming Revolution Globally”.
The Local Organising Committee (LOC) was chaired by actor Francis Duru.
The actor said that out of over 600 film entries screened by the committee, “Rule No 1” was chosen as overall winning film. He said the film passed on the message of hygiene and cleanliness in order to provide a safe and healthy nation.
The second position went to a film “Dirty Space”, while a film known as “My Juju” took the third position.
The winner, first runner up and second runner up received ₦500,000, ₦300,000 and ₦200,000 respectively, Duru said.
In his remarks, the Founder of the festival, Fidelis Duker, said that the emergence of “Rule No 1”, emphasised the need for people to practice hygiene and cleanliness.
“After COVID-19, one of the basic challenges we had was that most people stopped going back to hygiene.
If you remember during COVID-19, you washed your hands and put on your face mask but everybody has gone back to normal life.
The whole idea of the project is to see how people can go back to that idea of cleanliness better than what we are doing today.
We should show the level of hygiene and environmental cleanliness.”
Mr. Akintayo Akinseloyin, the Brand Manager, Hypo Nigeria, while speaking said that Hypo brand would help in providing a safe, secure and healthy country.
The Brand Manager said that his company supported the Abuja International Film Festival to spread the message of hygiene and cleanliness in the country.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), some other films won the following awards at the 2022 Abuja International Film Festival Award:
- Experimental film award by Freetown to Flatbush
- Short Film Nigeria by Smart Edikan
- Feature Film Nigeria, Enough of the Silence by Andrew Amenechi
- Short Film Foreign – That day I was 21 by China
- Outstanding actress by Shaffy Bello – Obsession – Nigeria.
- Outstanding Actor- Sambasa Nzeribe – Enough of the Silence – Nigeria
- Best Feature Film Foreign by Identical Justice
- Outstanding music Score by Sin City – Nigeria
- Outstanding Students Film – Aminata (Spain) and Once upon a perfect murder (Nigeria)
- Outstanding Documentary- Journey of Igbo civilisation – Nigeria
- Outstanding Animation – Larvae story – Korea
- Outstanding Director- Muyiwa Ademola – Sin City
- Audience Choice Award – Obsession- Nigeria
