Micah, an american volunteer takes a teaching job in a small village in ghana where he meets 14 yr old tuigi, who has to become trokosi. Watch an exclusive clip from the film above featuring micah. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. The urban movie channel, or umc, also features five features directed by the ghanaian filmmaker leila djansi, including her most recent, like cotton twines, from 2016. Produced by djansis turning point pictures, it tells the story of tuigi, a 14yearold jss student in a small ghanaian village who has to become a trokosi, a slave to the gods as a. Awesome international feature film that i had the pleasure to produce on. You can watch all latest nollywood and ghana movies featuring yvonne okoro by subscribing to the irokotv mobile app on your smartphone. Locked in a cultural battle, micah is determined to give tuigi a life outside tradition. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Hello everyone, i am ophelia klenam dzidzornu, a passionate teen film and theater actress, commercial, print model, volunteer and a. Like cotton twines follows micah jay ellis, an american volunteer who. The story centers around micah brown ellis who takes a teaching job in a ghanaian village where he meets tuigi, a bright girl who must atone for a deadly accident. Locked in a battle between history, church and state, micah is determined to give tuigi a life outside tradition. Watch me in like cotton twines on urban movie channel umc.
Through screenings, workshops, appearances by industry guests, and special events, the festival has brought filmmakers and their fans together to celebrate the art of film for over 15 years. An american volunteer teaching in a school in africa must save one of his students, a 14 year old girl from religious slavery. With irene adotey, adjetey anang, miranda bailey, david dontoh. Watch me in like cotton twines on urban movi stage 32. The film will also be released on dvd in early 2017. Like cotton twines is a film directed by ghanaianamerican filmmaker leila djansi. Trailer for like cotton twines, starring irene adotey, adjetey anang and miranda bailey from risingstar director leila djansi, comes her latest film festival winner like cotton twines, starring jay ellis hbos insecure. Sign up to for a 14day free trial to watch the full film and many other urban movies. An american volunteer teaching in a school in africa must save one of his students, a. There is currently one video available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. Jay ellis, ophelia dzidzornu, miranda bailey, yvonne okoro, david dontoh, leila djansi.
Wsav like cotton twines tells the story of an american teacher in ghana trying to rescue one of his students from a life of sexual slavery. This article is within the scope of wikiproject film. I will be helping him with this post, by asking him your questions and writing his responses. Cotton twine food grade buy cotton twine food grade. To improve this article, please refer to the guidelines. Like cotton twines tells the story of tuigi ophelia klenam dzidzornu, a yearold girl who is forced into sex slavery as payment for fathers mistake. River bend film festival is a celebration of independent filmmaking, founded in 2002 by a group of filmmakers and avid filmlovers in south bend, indiana. The movie gives insight of an american teacher who comes to. He would like to add that this post makes it sound like his life was a lot more smooth and preplanned than it was. In addition to like cotton twines, rlj entertainment also acquired urbanworld film festival alum knucklehead, which screened in 2015. Like cotton twines is slated to premiere on rljes subscription video on demand service, urban movie channel umc in december 2016. However, tuigis father offers her as a sex slave to atone for a deadly accident he committed. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation.
Like cotton twines micah takes a teaching job in a ghanaian village, where he meets tuigi, a bright girl who must atone for an accident committed by her father. Goodreads members who liked the templar legacy cot. Like cotton twines the 2016 movie, trailers, videos and more at yidio. An american volunteer teaching at a remote school in africa tries to save one of his young students from a religious custom in which she will be offered as a slave to the gods. The film also won the best diaspora film at the 2012 san diego black film festival.
Like cotton twines 2016 an american volunteer teaching at a remote school in africa tries to save one of his young students from a religious custom in which she will be offered as a slave to the. In addition to like cotton twines, rlj entertainment also acquired urbanworld film festival alumknucklehead, which screened in 2015. Around 250 movies roughly 60% of which are exclusive to umc, featuring actors like monique and isaiah washington 2015s blackbird, garcelle beauvais and leon 20s and then there was you, and jay ellis 2016s like cotton twines. The story centers around micah brown ellis who takes a. From risingstar director leila djansi, comes her latest film festival winner like cotton twines, starring jay ellis hbos insecure. Like cotton twines an american volunteer takes a teaching job in a remote african village where he meets a tuigi, yearold girl. Released 2016, like cotton twines stars jay ellis, ophelia klenam dzidzornu, irene adotey, miranda bailey the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 36 min, and received a score of out of 100 on.
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Leila djansi makes history in film festival with like. Rlj entertainments urban movie channel umc is now available on fourthgeneration apple tv devices which the company hopes will spur signups for. Like cotton twines jay ellis ophelia klenam dzidzornu irene adotey 2016 an american volunteer teaching at a remote school in africa tries to save one of his young students from a religious custom in which she will be offer. Like cotton twines micah, an american teaching in ghana, is eager to help his students, especially yearold tuigi. In 2016, leila djansi directed like cotton twines an exploration of the practice of trokosi in her native country of ghana. Scad announces 2016 savannah film festival award winners. Once you select rent youll have 14 days to start watching the movie and 48 hours to finish it. Ghana must go 2016 rebecca 2016 like cotton twines 2016 boxing day. Best foursome ever real twins and busty wife kelly madison, lindsay love, lacey love love twins 5 min pawn3x 544k views 16 min 2. Stub this article has been rated as stubclass on the projects.
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