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Rungano Nyoni Talks ‘On Becoming A Guinea Fowl’, Future Projects & Why It’s So Difficult To Release An African Film In Africa: “The Distributors Just Aren’t Interested”
A24 will release the film stateside from March 7.
Set in the Zambian capital Lusaka, the film follows the thirtysomething Shula (Susan Chardy), who is traveling home from a costume party when she discovers her uncle Fred’s dead body lying on a roadside. The buzz, she says, critically, was in part thanks to the film dropping at the height of an industry-wide “diversity drive” where people were “pushing to see other narratives from Britain.” DEADLINE: You’re often lumped into a group with filmmakers like Mati Diop to signal what people describe as a renaissance in African cinema.
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