Abuja based Top flight Director, Emmanuel Tagbo Eyaba, has secured the highest ranking official job as the Festival Director of the premier student centred Film Festival in Nigeria.
Eyaba is billed to resume duty August 14, 2025. The International Student Film Festival, ISFF, founded by multiple award winning and top Nollywood filmmaker and culture activist Chief Amb. Lancelot oduwa Imasuen, is highly rated as the gateway to Nollywood in Nigeria.
Director Eyaba is coming onboard with a vast experience within and outside the film industry and festival circuit, trained at the University of Calabar Theatre Art Department, and armed with a professional film training in the Colorado Film Academy USA, Eyaba is well equipped to take ISFF to its desired destination. He has directed some of the biggest film jobs out of in and outside Abuja, and was the first Assistant Director on the much anticipated movie project Issakaba.
Emmanuel Eyaba Tagbo is a skilled and versatile Nigerian filmmaker serving as a CEO, 2et Media Network Ltd. He is a writer, director, producer, educator, and author.
He’s internationally trained, deeply involved in multiple facets of film production, and recognized within the filmmaking guild in Nigeria.
He is the Director of Academics, Cosmopolitan University Film Academy, Abuja and also the Public Relations Officer, Directors Guild of Nigeria.
Director Eyaba and his solid team are poised to deliver a world class festival come November 2025, even as the festival is being hosted this year by the Theatre Arts Department of Imo State University, Owerri and it promises to be one of its kind.
It would be recalled that the International Students Film Festival held its inaugural edition at the prestigious Igbinedion University Okada, Edo State, after which the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, hosted its second edition and now its heading to Owerri Imo State.
