Edius Pro X Edu
€ 200,00 + iva
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Tracks Sarah’s journey from detached avoidance to profound self-awareness as she embraces her inherited community.
To bind Sarah to her lineage, Mensah beautifully intersperses real archival footage of Ghanaian funeral rites throughout the narrative.
Captures the friction experienced by first-generation children navigating highly specific family traditions and Ivy League environments.
The 2021 indie comedy-drama is a heartfelt, award-winning film written by, directed by, and starring Nana Mensah . It explores the life of Sarah Obeng, a brilliant Ghanaian-American PhD student, who must abandon her plans to move to Ohio when her mother dies suddenly and leaves her a Christian bookstore in the Bronx.
The fictional "King of Glory" bookstore in the film was filmed in an actual bookstore owned by Mensah's aunt and uncle.
The film was shot in 2014, and the money required to finish its post-production was raised entirely via a Kickstarter campaign in 2015.