2021 Mildred Okwo’s film, ‘La Femme Anjola‘, will be premiered in New York on November 21.
This development comes ahead of the online release of the crime thriller.
Its screening will hold at the MCC Theater in a collaboration between the African Film Festival and MCC Theater.
This first-of-its-kind event precedes global streaming of the film between November 25 and 28.
In March 2021, the movie, Directed by Okwo and written by Tunde Babalola, premiered in Nigeria.
La Femme Anjola is a film noir about a young stockbroker whose life turns upside down after he has an entanglement with a beautiful enigmatic singer; who turns out to be the wife of a wealthy and deadly gangster.
The film features Rita Dominic, Nonso Bassey, Mumbi Maina, and Femi Jacobs.
Speaking about the film, which recently got four Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) nominations; Okwo said: “As a filmmaker, I am drawn to telling stories that capture the essence of my observations.
“With this project, I had the opportunity to present a classic noir tale with a distinctively African twist; one that speaks for the times as it chronicles the journey of a young middle-class man who is a product of today’s Nigeria.”
