Everything Nollywood in collaboration with The Embassy of Nigeria Netherlands & Africadelic organised the Nollywood Travel Film Festival in The Netherlands from 5-7 October, 2023. The founder of NTFF is Mykel Parish.

The Nollywood Travel Film Festival is Nigeria’s biggest and foremost travel festival poised to take Nigerian cinema across international borders, promoting film made by Nigerians living all over the world, giving filmmakers and film lovers the platform to interact, network, and discover a new market while exposing the existing markets to a world of potential to invest in.

Launched in Toronto in 2017, the Nollywood Travel Film Festival has visited several cities including Atlanta, New York, Toronto, Hamburg, Berlin, London, and Glasgow and Oslo while it currently seeks to travel to wider regions, taking actors, producers, directors, and storytellers to the host country, promoting them and their work to new opportunities, trade deals, and financing which gives them the leverage to contribute profitably, further push the barriers of Nigerian filmmaking, and tell more stories.

Ali Nuhu, Patience Ozokwor, Georgina Ibeh, Uju Okoli, Fathia Balogun, Dr. Eniola Ajayi (Nigeria’s Ambassador To The Netherlands), the staff of The Nigeria Embassy in The Netherlands, various Ambassadors representing different countries among others attended the Nollywood Film Festival.

Six movies were screened at The Melkweg:

• Love, Lust & Other Things (2023; directed by Kayode Kasum). Read the article about the Q&A session with co-executive producer Kadir Salami: https://tinyurl.com/yc6sc576
• The Boy Who Never Falls (2023; directed by If an Ifeanyi Michael)
• Kamsi (2018; directed by Uzodinma Okpechi). Read the article about the Q&A session with the movie director: https://tinyurl.com/yc53j8kh
• Beckma (2022; directed by Best Okoduwa)
• Sista (2022; directed by Biodun Stephen)
• Eagle Wings (2021; directed by Papel Apel).

The latter was also screened at the award/screening event in Pathe Buitenhof, The Hague on Saturday 7 October, 2023.

The Ekiti Performing Arts Company performed at Melkweg Cinema in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on Thursday 5 October, 2023. They are an award-winning group led by the Honourable Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, Professor Rasaki Ojo Bakare.