A Song From The Dark’, the first feature film by the multiple award-winning UK-based Nigerian-British filmmaker, Ogo Okpue, is set for release today, Friday July 12, on the streaming platform, Amazon Prime. Winner of Best Director in the First Feature Film category at Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) 2022, as well as Best Director at the 2023 American Black Film Festival, ABFF, (world’s largest black film festival), Okpue, who announced the release of the film at a virtual press briefing on Tuesday, said ‘A Song From The Dark’ is a fantasy horror, adding that the film draws a lot of inspiration from the stories he heard as a child. Starring Nollywood’s Nse Ikpe Etim, Wale Ojo alongside gripping performances from British Ghanaian Vanessa Vanderpuye, Lola Wayne, Garcia Brown, Peace Oseyenum and Paul Coster amongst others, the film, according to Okpue, is a fantasy-horror, “positioned to ingrain heroes and heroines of African traditional mysticism with similar audacity as western films have entrenched the Superman, Wonder Woman and Ironman.
” Okpue, whose short films like ‘Saving Cain’ and ‘Cat Face’ have been recognised and screened at major film festivals around the world, also stated that the film draws a lot of inspiration from the stories he heard as a child whenever he visited the village with his parents. “The inspiration of the story dates back to a certain period of my childhood when my family would visit my grandmother in our village. She happe.
