Senator Shehu Sani has reacted to the disqualification of Lionheart movie by the Oscar Academy.
The movie which features Genevieve Nnaji was Nigeria’s submission for Best International Feature. It got disqualified because it goes against the policy of the category.
The policy states that movies have to be mostly non-English before they can make it into the category for Best International Feature.
Lionheart only has 11 minutes out of its 95 minutes in non-English.
Reacting to the disqualification, Shehu Sani tweeted:
“The reasons given for the #Oscars disqualification of LION HEART only exposes the degree of their ignorance of the World outside of theirs,and their discriminatory and contemptuous views about African history and our ways”.
