EGÚNGÚN (MASQUERADE)
Nigeria, 15, Digital
In search of healing, a young woman returns home to Nigeria, the country of her birth.
Writer/Director: Olive Nwosu
Producer: Alex Polunin
Director of Photography: Tom Weir
Editor: Olive Nwosu
Production Designer: Jim Ezenmwa
Sound Design: Tzvi Sherman
Composer: Matthew J. Serra
Cast: Sheila Chiamaka Chukwulozie; Teniola Aladese
Contact: Alex Polunin, anipolunin@gmail.com
Program J
Film Screenings:
May 7th at 9pm ET
May 14th at 9pm ET
About the Director/Writer
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Olive Nwosu was a BAFTA-Pigott 2020 Scholar, Alex Sichel Fellow at Columbia University, and an ‘African Promises’ director selected by the Institut Français. Nwosu’s work is informed by the intersectional nature of her life across multiple continents and identities. Her mission is to tell urgent, cinematic, African stories. She is a 2022 Sundance Screenwriting Fellow.