Alaskaland
New York African Film Festival 2013
April 3 - 9, 2013
Alaskaland director Chinonye Chukwu and Boneshaker director Frances Bodomo in person April 9!
Alaska-raised Nigerian Chukwuma struggles to balance his cultural heritage with the pressures of the world around him in this gorgeous and assured debut feature.
Alaskaland director Chinonye Chukwu and Boneshaker director Frances Bodomo in person April 9!
In this gorgeous, knowing debut film, Chukwuma, an Alaska-raised Nigerian struggles to balance his cultural heritage with the pressures of the world around him. After a family tragedy forces a two-year estrangement from his younger sister Chidinma, the siblings reconnect in their hometown.
Screening with:
Boneshaker
Frances Bodomo | USA | 2012 | 12m
Boneshaker follows a Ghanaian immigrant family on a road trip to a Pentecostal church in Louisiana to cure its problem child. As the family journeys to a tent revival at the ends of the levee-less Louisiana delta, they discover the complications of trying to perform a traditional ritual away from home. Boneshaker focuses on the feelings of homelessness, landlessness, and rootlessness that accompany immigration.
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