The Ghana documentary is likely one of the African tasks shortlisted for the brand new Critics’ Prize on the Locarno Open Doorways program, which might be held in Switzerland from August fifth to tenth.
African Movie Press (AFP), the continental confederation of Akoloko, Cinema Focus and What Saved Me Up publications, has joined Open Doorways as an awards accomplice and can award one of many chosen tasks with the AFP Critics Award.
Amongst these tasks is Too A lot Music, directed and produced by Ghana’s Asei Fiagbe. This documentary options the late Ghanaian keyboard genius, Kiki Gyan, and tells her story of Ghanaian origins to a worldwide business viewers.
The award features a money prize of $500, a certificates and continued editorial protection of the winner throughout the AFP community. The judges will identify the winners on August tenth. AFP co-founder Tambay Obenson mentioned the award was a strategy to “place important African voices on the coronary heart of pageant tradition”.
AFP first offered the award on the fifth Surreal 16 Movie Pageant held in Lagos in December 2025, when Nigerian filmmaker Dika Ofoma gained the award for his quick movie “Obi is a Boy.” Ofoma beforehand carried out a featured mission by means of Open Doorways, the place she gained three awards.
The 2026 version is the second 12 months of a four-year open door cycle overlaying 42 African nations, with eligibility based mostly on tips from the Swiss Company for Improvement and Cooperation. This system combines coaching, mentorship and networking with public screenings on the Locarno Movie Pageant and its business sector.
AFP is one in every of two further companions this 12 months, along with a €4,000 scholarship from the coaching community EAVE and the Luxembourg Movie Fund. Established awards might be reinstated, together with the CHF 50,000 Open Doorways Grant, the EUR 8,000 CNC Improvement Award and the EUR 6,000 Arte Kino Worldwide Prize.
