After winning Best Director (First Feature Film) at Africa Movie Academy Awards 2022, as well as Best Director at the 2023 American Black Film Festival, ABFF (world’s largest black film festival), filmmaker and multimedia creative designer, Ogo Okpue, has announced at a press briefing that his first feature film, A Song From The Dark, will be released on Friday July 12, 2024 on streaming platform, Amazon Prime.
Starring Nollywood’s Nse Ikpe Etim, Wale Ojo alongside gripping performances from British Ghanaian Vanessa Vanderpuye, Lola Wayne, Garcia Brown, Peace Oseyenum and Paul Coster amongst others, the film is a fantasy-horror, positioned to ingrain heroes and heroines of African traditional mysticism with similar audacity as western films have entrenched the Superman, Wonderwoman and Ironman. Okpue, whose short films like Saving Cain, Cat Face have been recognised and screened at major film festivals around the world, says the film draws a lot of inspiration from the stories he heard as a child whenever he visited the village with his parents.
