Joel Kachi Benson, a Nigerian filmmaker, has won the Lion Award for Best Story at the 2019 Venice Festival for his documentary on Chibok school girls - The documentary explores the pains and suffering the parents of the abducted school girls have been subjecte to;
A Nigerian, Joel Kachi Benson, has won the The Lion Award for Best Story at the 2019 Venice Festival for his documentary on the Chibok school girls that were kidnapped by the Boko Haram insurgent group. His documentary focused on the painful but important story of the abducted girls and what they have had to go through. During his acceptance speech for the award, Benson said he felt it is important to tell the story of the girls and the pain their parents have had to endure as a result of their absence.
He said it is wrong for everybody to forget about them and move on like nothing really ever happened. "With this VR film, all I wanted to do was to take the world to the women of Chibok, who five years after their daughters had been kidnapped, are still living with the incredible pain of their absence. I felt it was wrong for us to forget or even doubt and move on,” he said.
