Ogo Okpue, a UK based filmmaker from Nigeria has been adjudged the Best Director in a tie with Bryan Keith Montgomery Jnr at the 2023 American Black Film Festival Award for his film, A Song From The Dark.
The American Black Film Festival, currently at its 27th annual edition is the biggest black film festival in the world, created to highlight audio-visual works of black origin.
A Song From the Dark, which also won the Best Actor category at the American Black Film Festival, had 6 nominations at the 2022 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in Nigeria, while winning Okpue, the Best Director for First Feature film at the last AMAA event.
Starring Nollywood’s Nse Ikpe Etim, and Wale Ojo alongside Ghanaian-born Vanessa Vanderpuye, Dimeji Ewuoso, Garcia Brown, Lola Wayne, Yinka Awoni, Paul Coster amongst others the film is a fantasy-horror, positioned to project heroes and heroines of African traditional mysticism.
Teaser: https://youtu.be/UwH8Gqt1c_
At the ABFF 2023: https://youtu.be/QixaH3xPUn8
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