BronzeLens Film Festival in partnership with Africa Atlanta 2014 and Fulton County Southwest Arts Center Performance Theater & Gallery will host the Atlanta Premiere of Biyi Bandele’s feature film directorial debut of HALF OF A YELLOW SUN 4:00 pm, Sunday June 22 at the Southwest Arts Center Performance Theater, 915 New Hope Road, Atlanta, GA .
The film is based on the best – selling novel by Chimamada Ngozi Adechei.
HALF OF A YELLOW SUN stars Academy Award Nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, John Boyega, Anika Noni Rose, Joseph Mawle and Genevieve Nnaji, in a drama that weaves together the lives of four people swept up in the turbulence of civil war, with a newly independent 1960s Nigeria as the backdrop.
Produced by BAFTA award-winner Andrea Calderwood (The Last King of Scotland) and Gail Ega (The Constant Gardener), the film is a British/Nigerian co-production and was shot at Tinapa Film Studio in Nigeria and in the UK.
Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Upon returning to a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their expensive English education, the two women make very different choices. Olanna shocks her family by going to live with her lover, the “revolutionary professor” Odenigbo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and his devoted houseboy Ugwu (John Boyega) in the dusty university town of Nsukka; Kainene turns out to be a fiercely successful businesswoman when she takes over the family interests, and surprises even herself when she falls in love with Richard (Joseph Mawle), an English writer.
Preoccupied by their romantic entanglements, and a betrayal between the sisters, the events of their life seem to loom larger than politics. However, they become caught up in the events of the Nigerian civil war, in which the lgbo people fought an impassioned struggle to establish Biafra as an independent republic, ending in chilling violence which shocked the entire world.
