NYAFF32 Panel : From Literature to Cinema

Join filmmakers Angèle Diabang & Awam Amkpa for a masterclass on adapting iconic literature to screen—creative choices, challenges & more.

 

This masterclass invites audiences into a rich conversation on the art of adaptation, exploring how iconic literary works are reimagined for the screen. With NYAFF32 filmmakers—including Angèle Diabang (So Long a Letter) and Awam Amkpa (The Man Died)—the session will examine the creative choices, challenges, and cultural resonances involved in translating text to film.

From personal insight to process, this dialogue celebrates the enduring relationship between literature and cinema, and the new worlds that emerge when they meet.)—the session will examine the creative choices, challenges, and cultural resonances of translating text to film.

Diabang’s adaptation of Mariama Bâ’s feminist classic explores a woman’s defiance in the face of betrayal, while Amkpa’s dramatization of Wole Soyinka’s prison memoir captures the unbreakable spirit of resistance under oppression. From personal insight to process, this dialogue celebrates the enduring relationship between literature and cinema—and the new worlds that emerge when they meet.