Vicker, Omotola in ‘Amina’

The film categorized as ‘Diaspora cinema’ due to the casts which includes a cross-continental collaboration between Africans and people of African descent outside of Africa. The movie which also stars black British actors like Wil Johnson, star in television crime series, ‘Walking Dead’, Vincent Regan (‘Clash of the Titans’, ‘300’, ‘Troy’) and Alison Caroll (‘The […]

The film categorized as ‘Diaspora cinema’ due to the casts which includes a cross-continental collaboration between Africans and people of African descent outside of Africa.

The movie which also stars black British actors like Wil Johnson, star in television crime series, ‘Walking Dead’, Vincent Regan (‘Clash of the Titans’, ‘300’, ‘Troy’) and Alison Caroll (‘The Kids’, ‘Doghouse’), is told in flashback.

‘Amina’ focuses on the life of a gifted young woman (played by Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde) who, devastated by a series of life changing events, suffers a total breakdown and finds herself incarcerated in a mental hospital. Only one person can help Amina, her doctor (Wil Johnson), but he must overcome his own demons before he can help Amina confront her past.

Like recent cross-continental films by other Nigerian filmmakers like Jeta Amata and Obi Emelonye, ‘Amina’, according to its director, Christian Ashaiku in an interview with SmartMonkey Tv, “is the kind of movie that will help push Nigerian cinema forward, challenging outside perceptions of Nollywood cinema, and getting that cinema to a place where it can compete on the international marketplace of films.”