My Father’s Shadow didn’t submit film to NOSC for Oscars, reveals Stephanie Linus

Filmmaker and actress Stephanie Linus stirred a touchy conversation recently when she submitted that some filmmakers don’t identify with the Nigerian film industry yet latch onto the Nigerian name to promote their films.

Linus, who was a panellist at one of the industry sessions held at the fifth edition of Peace Anyiam-Osigwe Nigeria Digital Content Regulation Conference, made this claim that stirred a broader conversation at the conference.

While making her submission on the topic, ‘From Volume to Value: The Future of Nigerian Motion Picture Industry in the Digital Age,’ Linus expressed that Akinola Jr. and Wale Davies’ film, ‘My Father’s Shadow,’ doesn’t entirely identify with the Nigerian film industry but only latches onto the country’s name to propagate the film.

She noted that the film has been classified as the first Nigerian film to appear at the Cannes despite not being a Nigerian production, but only a Nigerian story.

She buttressed her submission, revealing that while the Nigerian Oscar Selection Committee, NOSC, called for entry submissions, the brothers shunned the call but entered their film through another country for the Oscars.