{"id":78498,"date":"2025-08-19T19:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/78498\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:48:12","slug":"lilwins-ibrahim-traore-movie-bags-nomination-at-new-zealand-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/78498\/","title":{"rendered":"LilWin&#8217;s Ibrahim Traor\u00e9 movie bags nomination at New Zealand Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/LilWin-s-Ibrahim-Traor-movie-bags-nomination-at-New-Zealand-Film-Festival-1996862?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/63550127.295.jpg\" alt=\"LilWin is a Ghanaian Kumawood actor\" title=\"LilWin is a Ghanaian Kumawood actor\" width=\"295\" height=\"232\" \/> <\/a>LilWin is a Ghanaian Kumawood actor<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Following a wave of media buzz since its release, the film &#8220;Captain Ibrahim Traor\u00e9,&#8221; produced by Ghanaian actor Kwadwo Nkansah \u2018LilWin\u2019, has received an international nomination at the New Zealand Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>In an Instagram post shared on August 18, 2025, LilWin announced that his movie has been nominated for Best African Movie at the New Zealand International Film Festival. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/He-is-becoming-too-arrogant-Sammy-Rasta-slams-LilWin-over-insults-on-Emelia-Brobbey-1996806\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;He is becoming too arrogant&#8217; &#8211; Sammy Rasta slams LilWin over insults on Emelia Brobbey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He explained that his film came top among over 500 movies pitched during the nominations. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LilWin&#8217;s movie Captain Ibrahim Traor\u00e9, directed by Jackson K Bentum, has been nominated for best African Movie at New Zealand International Film Festival,&#8221; the post reads.  <\/p>\n<p>The Kumawood actor added that only 10 movies were nominated among the over 500 films. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Director-of-Lilwin-s-controversial-Ibrahim-Traor-movie-speaks-1986191\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Director of Lilwin\u2019s controversial Ibrahim Traor\u00e9 movie speaks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The movie came out as an outstanding piece of work in over 500 movies, and only 10 movies were nominated,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, LilWin has been honoured by Burkina Faso&#8217;s military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traor\u00e9, after he recently launched a movie about the Stateman. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/I-had-to-take-a-400-000-loan-to-complete-Captain-Ibrahim-Traor-movie-LilWin-1990410\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I had to take a $400,000 loan to complete Captain Ibrahim Traor\u00e9 movie &#8211; LilWin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LilWin first premiered his much-anticipated movie on August 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The movie talks about how Captain Ibrahim Traor\u00e9 became the leader of Burkina Faso following a coup on September 30, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>It also talks about Traor\u00e9 being a symbol of anti-imperialist sentiment and youth-driven reform in the country.<\/p>\n<p> Read the post below:<\/p>\n<p>JHM\/VPO<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, watch the tense standoff in Bonteso as anti-galamsey unit seizes excavators, arrests four:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LilWin is a Ghanaian Kumawood actor Following a wave of media buzz since its release, the film &#8220;Captain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-78498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}