Kachi Benson’s film, ‘Daughters of Chibok’ has won the Best Virtual Reality story at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.
The film is a story of the April 2014 abduction of 276 female students from Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. Following government negotiations with the terrorists, 107 of them were eventually released. But 112 remains missing.
‘Daughters of Chibok’ is a Virtual Reality (VR) documentary which was premiered at the festival. It tells the story of Yana Galang, whose daughter was among the kidnapped girls.
The movie represented Nigeria and Africa, alongside 12 other Virtual Reality (VR) films selected from around the world.
The film’s director, Benson, who owns a Virtual Reality Film Studio, VR360, said that he wanted to take the world to the women of Chibok using his VR film. He noted that five years after the daughters had been kidnapped, they are still living with the incredible pain of their absence.
In 2018, Benson made his first Virtual Reality film, ‘In Bakassi’, a short film that captures the plight of children living with PTSD in Internally Displaced Persons Camps in the northeast region.