Our Awards

Staff at Zuma film festval
CFC Staff at Zuma Film Festival, Abuja 2006

CFC has been recognized over the years, both locally and internationally, for excellence in producing dramas and documentaries that entertain while educating audiences on important social issues.

Our awards include:

  • 1999 Prix Leonardo International Multimedia – Parma, Italy                                                                                        Silver Certificate for Till Death Do Us Part
  • 2001 International Festival of Film & Video (FIFIVIL) – Lome, Togo                                                                       Best Film for Ready or Not – The Future is Ours
  • 2003 Independent Television Producers Association of Nigeria (ITPAN) 10th Year Anniversary Celebration – Lagos, Nigeria                                                                   Best Documentary Production in a Body of Work
  • 2004 AFRICAST Conference – Abuja, Nigeria                                                                              Best Television Documentary for Poverty & the Environment: Making the Link; Best Television Script for Poverty & the Environment: Making the Link; Best Television Documentary Director (Sandra Mbanefo Obiago) for Cash Madam
  • 2006 Zuma Film Festival – Abuja, Nigeria                                                                              Best Film/Video on Social Issues for Mechanical Women
  • 2006 AFRICAST Conference – Abuja, Nigeria                                                                              Best Director for Your Choice
  • 2006 Lagos International Film Festival / African Movie Academy Awards – Lagos, Nigeria                                    Best Student Film for Your Choice
  • 2007 Goethe Institut Film Week – Lagos, Nigeria                                                                                          Audience Award for Best Film for Your Choice
  • 2007 Abuja International Film Festival – Abuja, Nigeria                                                                              Best Documentary for For Love of Indigo
  • 2007 Lagos International Film Festival – Lagos, Nigeria                                                                              Best Documentary for For Love of Indigo
  • 2008 San Francisco Women’s Film Festival (SFWFF) – San Francisco, USA                                                          Best Story for For Love of Indigo
  • 2008 AFRICAST Conference – Abuja, Nigeria                                                                                                  Best TV Drama for My Brother’s Keeper; Best Overall TV Drama for My Brother’s Keeper; Best African Drama Producer on Television (Sandra Mbanefo Obiago) for My Brother's Keeper
  • December 2009: CFC won the Red Ribbon Awards in the Breaker of Silence on HIV/AIDS category. The award is organised annually by Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) in Nigeria to celebrate outstanding media & community responses to the HIV & AIDS challenge in Nigeria.
  • August 2010: CFC won the Special Youth Prize at the 5th edition of the annual Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival in Nairobi, Kenya for its film series, Bayelsan Silhouettes.