Netflix’s has unveiled a slate of female-led African projects to coincide with International Women’s Month.
EbonyLife TV boss Mo Abudu will exec produce Baby Farm, a series following Adanna, a young pregnant woman, unknowingly entrusts her unborn twins to a high-profile Ngo, only to discover she’s become a prisoner of a sinister baby farm.
Rita Dominic leads a cast that includes Joseph Benjamin, Onyinye Odokoro, Genoveva Umeh, Langley Kirkwood and Jenny Stead.
Hamisha Daryani Ahuja produces and helms another scripted project, Postcards, following four Nigerians in India discovering their identity through a journey of self-discovery.
Period feature House of Ga’a comes from Bolanle Austen-Peters, who directs and produces. Set in 18th century old Oyo Empire, the film biopic is based on real events and the story of Bashorun Ga’a, a feared prime minister and kingmaker.
The trio of new projects were unveiled at an International...
EbonyLife TV boss Mo Abudu will exec produce Baby Farm, a series following Adanna, a young pregnant woman, unknowingly entrusts her unborn twins to a high-profile Ngo, only to discover she’s become a prisoner of a sinister baby farm.
Rita Dominic leads a cast that includes Joseph Benjamin, Onyinye Odokoro, Genoveva Umeh, Langley Kirkwood and Jenny Stead.
Hamisha Daryani Ahuja produces and helms another scripted project, Postcards, following four Nigerians in India discovering their identity through a journey of self-discovery.
Period feature House of Ga’a comes from Bolanle Austen-Peters, who directs and produces. Set in 18th century old Oyo Empire, the film biopic is based on real events and the story of Bashorun Ga’a, a feared prime minister and kingmaker.
The trio of new projects were unveiled at an International...
- 3/6/2024
- by Stewart Clarke and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is backing three projects from women filmmakers in Nigeria and Africa including the series Baby Farm, executive produced by EbonyLife’s Mo Abudu.
The series follows a pregnant woman who becomes entrapped in a high-profile but sinister Ngo called Baby Farm and must work to save herself and her fellow captives.
Nollywood star Rita Dominic leads the cast with Joseph Benjamin, Onyinye Odokoro, Genoveva Umeh, Langley Kirkwood and Jenny Stead.
The slate also includes the feature House of Ga’a, from Bolanle Austen-Peters, whose 2022 drama Man Of God was also released by Netflix. Her new feature is set in...
The series follows a pregnant woman who becomes entrapped in a high-profile but sinister Ngo called Baby Farm and must work to save herself and her fellow captives.
Nollywood star Rita Dominic leads the cast with Joseph Benjamin, Onyinye Odokoro, Genoveva Umeh, Langley Kirkwood and Jenny Stead.
The slate also includes the feature House of Ga’a, from Bolanle Austen-Peters, whose 2022 drama Man Of God was also released by Netflix. Her new feature is set in...
- 3/6/2024
- ScreenDaily
Dorothy Ghettuba remembers the moment that changed her life. The Kenya-born entrepreneur was traveling with friends in Zambia when their driver fell asleep at the wheel, sending their van careening off the road and into a tree. The group left the accident unscathed, but the brush with death rattled Ghettuba. “Things can happen to you that make you pause,” she tells Variety. “And that was a thing that made me pause and say to myself, ‘If today was my last day, have I lived my best life?’”
Ghettuba had been working at a venture capital firm in Canada, but she left her job and returned to Kenya, where she began to chase a lifelong dream to join the entertainment industry and tell the kinds of stories that spoke to her. Within a few years she’d produced her first pilot for public broadcaster Kbc and was soon developing a slate...
Ghettuba had been working at a venture capital firm in Canada, but she left her job and returned to Kenya, where she began to chase a lifelong dream to join the entertainment industry and tell the kinds of stories that spoke to her. Within a few years she’d produced her first pilot for public broadcaster Kbc and was soon developing a slate...
- 3/3/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
It appears my first foray into Nollywood (Nigerian cinema) was well selected being the latest from director Izu Ojukwu, one of the nation’s most ambitious artists. Add some heavy hitters in Ramsey Nouah, Rita Dominic, and Chidi Mokeme and ’76 delivers a wonderful sampler platter of the best talent this region has to offer. But don’t look at the genre and think Bollywood song and dance because Ojukwu’s film is a straightforward drama with historical significance and emotional gravitas. While it’s first and foremost a love story bridging a racial divide between expectant Suzy (Dominic) and her husband Captain Dewa (Nouah) — who’s already been disavowed by his in-laws — at its back exists a real life assassination plot on Communist General Murtala Mohammed that threatens to rip them apart.
Nigeria is only six years removed from Civil War: a fight pitting Suzy’s father and brother against...
Nigeria is only six years removed from Civil War: a fight pitting Suzy’s father and brother against...
- 9/15/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Nigerian war drama features Nollywood stars Ramsey Nouah, Rita Dominic and Chidi Mokeme.
La-based Shoreline Entertainment is at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18) launching world sales excluding Africa on Izu Ojukwu’s Nigerian Tiff selection ’76 ahead of its world premiere this weekend.’76 will premiere in City To City on Sunday and features Nollywood superstars Ramsey Nouah, Rita Dominic and Chidi Mokeme.
The film takes place against the backdrop of Nigeria’s Civil War in the 1970s as an army officer and expectant father in an intercultural marriage gets caught up in a coup to assassinate military General Murtala Mohammed. Lonzo Nzekwe of Toronto-based streaming platform IronFlix brokered the deal between Shoreline Entertainment, Adonis Production and Princewill Trust.
La-based Shoreline Entertainment is at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18) launching world sales excluding Africa on Izu Ojukwu’s Nigerian Tiff selection ’76 ahead of its world premiere this weekend.’76 will premiere in City To City on Sunday and features Nollywood superstars Ramsey Nouah, Rita Dominic and Chidi Mokeme.
The film takes place against the backdrop of Nigeria’s Civil War in the 1970s as an army officer and expectant father in an intercultural marriage gets caught up in a coup to assassinate military General Murtala Mohammed. Lonzo Nzekwe of Toronto-based streaming platform IronFlix brokered the deal between Shoreline Entertainment, Adonis Production and Princewill Trust.
- 9/9/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
"'76," previously titled "Lions of '76," is an upcoming Nigerian historical fiction drama film produced by Adonaija Owiriwa and Izu Ojukwu, and directed by Izu Ojukwu. It stars some of the more internationally-recognized actors in Nigerian cinema, like Ramsey Nouah and Rita Dominic, as well as Chidi Mokeme, Ibinabo Fiberesima, Memry Savanhu, Adonijah Owuruwa, Daniel K. Daniel, Nelly Ekwereogu and Shuaibu Ebenehi Adams. The story goes... Six years after the Nigerian civil war (also known as the Biafran War, 1967 - 1970, which was fought to counter the secession of Biafra from Nigeria), a young officer from the middle belt gets entangled in a romantic...
- 11/18/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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