Camera rolling, sound rolling…! It's festival time again and this means that it is time again for the iREP newsletter, an initiative by Goethe-Institut Nigeria, iREP International Documentary Film Festival and some very talented young film critics. I am very happy that this newsletter is coming out again, not only because it gives us an insight into the filmmaker's perspectives, but also because it offers a platform for a rather rare species of art critics: the film critic. There are not many opportunities in the Nigerian cultural journalism scene to write and publish on films; this opportunity does not only offer some practical experience to the journalists, but also gives the festival a physical and tangible product that can be used for archiving and documenting purposes.
I have to thank the team around Aderinsola Ajao for putting up and continuing this initiative and what remains to be said now is:
"and… action!"

Marc-André Schmachtel
Institutsleiter / Director
Goethe-Institut Nigeria
German Cultural Center