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Akinola Davies Jr. Calls Salvador a ‘Fever Dream’ Ahead of Special Screening as Brazilian Filmmakers Work on Doc About His Time in the Country (EXCLUSIVE)

When explaining why they chose British-Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. as the international guest of honor at this year’s Projeto Paradiso National Talent Network gathering in Recife, the initiative’s executive director Josephine Bourgois said it was because Davies Jr’s “My…

This article was originally published by Variety and is republished here under license.

When explaining why they chose British-Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. as the international guest of honor at this year’s Projeto Paradiso National Talent Network gathering in Recife, the initiative’s executive director Josephine Bourgois said it was because Davies Jr’s “My Father’s Shadows” is a film that “could have been made by a Brazilian filmmaker.” This […]

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