SowetanLive reports that Akin Omotoso’s Man on Ground won the Best Ensemble Cast award at the Monaco Charity Film Festival that took place in Monte Carlo in the Principality of Monaco from 8 to 15 May.
Man on Ground, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada in 2011, stars Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Hotel Rwanda), Fabian Adeoye Lojede (Jacob’s Cross) and Fana Mokoena (State of Violence). Omotoso wrote and directed the film, which he described to Screen Africa as an artistic response to the xenophobic violence in South African townships in May 2008.
The Monaco Charity Film Festival (MCFF) is a yearly charity event to benefit of the children of the Virlanie Foundation in the Philippines. MCFF also helps filmmakers find financing and distribution for their films. The festival screens 12 movies a day for eight days.
