★★★★☆ The wondrously lensed The Supreme Price (2014) is a documentary of particular note. It takes on the threads of the construction of the family unit, the power of the African woman and wife, and the pressures of national history as personal heritage. Director Joanna Lipper provides a crucial window into the lives of politicised women and one woman in particular: the daughter of the former democratically elected Nigerian president M.K.O. Abiola and Kudirat Abiola, Hafsat Abiola. This is a perfectly wrought documentary, teased out delicately and respectfully but also completely. It will challenge viewers' but also serve as a call to action, no matter what cause it may be.
- 5/21/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Set to next screen at the New Voices in Black Cinema Festival, at BAMcinématek in Brooklyn, NY, is "The Supreme Price" - director Joanna Lipper's critically acclaimed documentary about the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria and efforts to increase the participation of women in leadership roles. The film screens this Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 2pm. For tickets, visit: http://www.bam.org/film/2015/the-supreme-price. Moshood Abiola was the first democratically elected President of Nigeria in 1993 in nearly three decades, winning the elections with steadfast determination. Decidedly obstinate, believing in the future of Nigeria’s peaceful...
- 3/25/2015
- by Fariha Roisin
- ShadowAndAct
Joanna Lipper's documentary "The Supreme Price" screens at the Toronto Black Film Festival's 3rd edition, which kicked off on the 10th, and will run through February 15th. Lipper's film next screens on the 15th at 5Pm Moshood Abiola was the first democratically elected President of Nigeria in 1993 in nearly three decades, winning the elections with steadfast determination. Decidedly obstinate, believing in the future of Nigeria’s peaceful existence, Abiola demanded productive change---“a smooth transition” from the military government that had enforced an entropic and stagnant state of existence in Nigeria since it’s independence in 1960....
- 2/12/2015
- by Fariha Roisin
- ShadowAndAct
The timely and powerful, critically-acclaimed documentary "The Supreme Price" about women and the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria, will begin its USA theatrical run starting tomorrow, Friday October 3, playing for a week at Quad Cinema in New York City, and at Laemmle Music Hall in Los Angeles. Directed and Produced by award-winning filmmaker Joanna Lipper ("Growing Up Fast," "Little Fugitive," "Inside Out: Portraits of Children"), the film is one of six films competing for the Best Documentary Award won the Gucci Tribeca Spotlighting Women Documentary Award and has been officially selected for over 11 international...
- 10/2/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Hafsat Abiola was a student at Harvard when she learned that her father, Nigerian President-elect M.K.O. Abiola, was in prison. Moshood was a Muslim who had managed to appeal to his country's Christian majority and, in 1996, to win Nigeria's most fair and democratic presidential election in decades. A military coup soon after prevented M.K.O. from taking office. While he was incarcerated, his wife, Kudirat, led Nigeria's pro-democracy movement, and Hafsat became an international activist. In the new documentary The Supreme Price, director Joanna Lipper watches Hafsat and her siblings grapple with their parents' legacy, with what it means to be Nigerian and what it would take to make their country a fair and democratic place. No hashtag activist, Lipper does an e...
- 10/1/2014
- Village Voice
The timely and powerful, critically-acclaimed documentary The Supreme Price about women and the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria, will have its European Premiere on the Anniversary of Nigeria’s independence at the Raindance Film Festival 2014. Directed and Produced by award-winning filmmaker Joanna Lipper (Growing Up Fast, Little Fugitive, Inside Out: Portraits of Children), the film is one of six films competing for the Best Documentary Award. Raindance Film Festival Screenings: Wednesday 1st October, 6.30pm at Vue Piccadilly and Thursday 2rd October, 1.20pm. Having won the Gucci Tribeca Spotlighting Women Documentary...
- 9/25/2014
- by Press Release
- ShadowAndAct
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