The documentary, The Supreme Price, which is about the assassination of Kudirat Abiola as well as the ascendancy of Hafsat Abiola and her Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), is ready and coming to Nigeria soon.
Hafsat Abiola
Film-maker, Tunde Kelani, who said he is proud to be associated with the film, told TheNiche that the feature length documentary is produced and directed by the award-winning filmmaker, Joanna Lipper, who is also a lecturer at Harvard University in the United States of America.
The film traces the evolution of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria and efforts to increase the participation of women in leadership roles.
Following the annulment of her father’s victory in Nigeria’s presidential election in 1993 and her mother’s assassination by agents of the military dictatorship, Hafsat faces the challenge of transforming a corrupt culture of governance into a democracy capable of serving Nigeria’s most marginalised population: women.
Lipper teaches ‘Using Film for Social Change’ in the Department of African and African-American Studies of Harvard. Her work as a documentary filmmaker has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, ITVS, Britdoc Foundation, the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, Women Make Movies and Chicken & Egg Pictures.
The Supreme Price has received the Gucci Tribeca Spotlighting Women Documentary Award. Previous films Lipper produced and directed include Inside Out: Portraits of Children (1996), Growing Up Fast (1999) and Little Fugitive (2006). Lipper is the author of the nationally-acclaimed book, Growing Up Fast.
Her photography has been published and exhibited in the U.S. and elsewhere.
