Actress Caroline Chikezie’s Making Major Moves
When Caroline first told her parents of her acting aspirations, they took action and sent her a boarding school in Nigeria. Small problem. They didn’t tell Caroline about this development. Caroline thought she was going to Nigeria for a 2 week holiday. She tried everything to get back to London even a hunger strike but her parents stood their ground. They wanted her to follow her father’s footsteps and become a doctor. It took 12 years for one parent to come around. Her father still has not accepted her career choice. » Read more…
Nothing Can Stop Hakeem Kae-Kazim
Hakeem Kae–Kazim has been acting in film and television for a long time. You may have seen him in the Oscar nominated, critically acclaimed Hotel Rwanda - it is where he gained international attention for his captivating role. » Read more…
The Wooden Camera
Madiba and Sipho live in poverty in a South African township. They stumble across a dead body during one of their afternoons of play. After searching the body for belongings Sipho immediately takes to the gun and Madiba is drawn to the camera. » Read more…
Director Sanaa Hamri Gears Up for Her Second Motion Picture
Sanaa Hamri was born in Tangier, Morocco. She attended Sarah Lawrence College as a theatre student. Sanaa taught herself to use an Avid editing machine back in 2000. She never once took a filmmaking course. She realized that she had a knack for putting images together to tell a story. Sanaa began making videos and knocking on doors throughout the music industry. » Read more…
This is Nollywood
This documentary highlights the $250 million dollar-yearly industry that is Nollywood. Fueled by crime and insecurity, people resorted to watching videos in the safety of their homes. The first Nollywood movie, Living in Bondage, was a huge success and paved the way for a new industry. This is Nollywood reveals the issues that Nollywood producers face, the obstacles they must overcome, and the small budgets they work with. » Read more…
Nowhere in Africa
A love story spanning two continents, Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel (Juliane Köhler) and their five-year-old daughter Regina each deal with the harsh realities of their new life in different ways. Attorney Walter is resigned to working the farm as a caretaker; pampered Jettel resists adjustment at every turn; while the shy yet curious Regina immediately embraces the country— learning the local language and customs, and finding a friend in Owuor, the farm’s cook. » Read more…
God Grew Tired of Us
Director Christopher Dillon Quinn follows three lost boys from Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp where they remained stagnant for 10 years to the United States in this honest documentary. John Dau, Daniel and Panther were separated from their families in the 1980s. They walked a thousand miles to escape udan after war broke out. They arrived in Ethiopia but had to walk again to Kenya when turmoil struck Ethiopia too. The Lost Boys walked for five years in search of safety and thousands died along the way. » Read more…
Bambadjan Bamba-Actor/Activist
Bambadjan Bamba is originally from Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He made an memorable appearance in the TV series “Law & Order” where he was a main character whose mother set up a murder. He also appears in stage plays, most recently including Till the Break of Dawn, a play about urban hip-hop activist who leads his New York friends on a trip to Havana, Cuba. You may also remember him as the rapper on the elevator in the movie I Think I Love My Wife. He has also had cameos on The Sopranos, The Dave Chappelle Show, Forrest Gump, Crash, and Hindsight, to name a few.
Idris Elba stars in Mekhi Phifer movie!
Idris Elba (Quentin Whitfiled) will be starring in a movie about a family that gets together for Christmas and has to deal with classic family issues. As the family learns about each other’s secrets, they learn to deal with each other as a family, and work together to sort out their problems. The cast is great and includes Chris Brown, Regina King, Chris Londo, Keith Robinson, and Columbus Short, to name a few. Mekhi Phifer is producing this film through his production company, Facilitator Films. This movie is scheduled to be released on November 21, 2007.
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