{"id":6501,"date":"2016-02-23T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T07:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2016-02-23T08:02:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T07:02:13","slug":"dry-wins-programmers-award-at-the-pan-african-film-festival-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=6501","title":{"rendered":"DRY Wins Programmers\u2019 Award At The Pan African Film Festival, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018DRY\u2019 has again recorded another feat!!!<\/p>\n<p>The movie has won the <strong>Programmers\u2019 Award for Narrative Feature<\/strong> at the recently concluded <strong>Pan African Film Festival<\/strong> in Los Angeles, USA.<\/p>\n<p>This award was given alongside other prestigious awards to film makers from across the world whose movies were screened at the largest and most prestigious black film festival in America.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that DRY has also won a host of local and international awards including the \u2018Best Protagonist\u2019 Award at the <strong>Bentonville Film Festival<\/strong> in Arkansas, USA.<\/p>\n<p>DRY is nominated in 9 categories at the <strong>Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards<\/strong> 2016 (AMVCA) which comes up this March, and has also won at the <strong>BON Awards<\/strong> and <strong>Zafaa Global Awards<\/strong> in categories such as: Movie with the best social message, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Child Actress and Best Producer.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DRY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DRY.jpg\" alt=\"DRY\" width=\"750\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DRY.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DRY-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Produced, directed, and starring my humble self, the film is an inspired true story that depicts the life of two young girls living as child brides in West Africa. The critically acclaimed movie focuses on child marriage and <strong>Vesico Vaginal Fistula<\/strong> (VVF), journeying into the heart-wrenching details of a culture not too many films dare to explore.<\/p>\n<p>DRY is currently available on online platforms such as<strong> iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Sony PlayStation<\/strong> and <strong>VUDU<\/strong> for viewers throughout the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018DRY\u2019 has again recorded another feat!!! The movie has won the Programmers\u2019 Award for Narrative Feature at the recently concluded Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, USA. This award was given alongside other prestigious awards to film makers from across the world whose movies were screened at the largest and most prestigious black film festival in America. It would be recalled that DRY has also won a host of local and international awards including the \u2018Best Protagonist\u2019 Award at the Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas, USA. DRY is nominated in 9 categories at the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards 2016 (AMVCA) which comes up this March, and has also won at the BON Awards and Zafaa Global Awards in categories such as: Movie with the best social message, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Child Actress and Best Producer. Produced, directed, and starring my humble self, the film is an inspired true story that depicts the life of two young girls living as child brides in West Africa. The critically acclaimed movie focuses on child marriage and Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF), journeying into the heart-wrenching details of a culture not too many films dare to explore. DRY is currently available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-6501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-vesico-vaginal-fistula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6504,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions\/6504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}