QUEEN OF KATWE: LESSONS FOR NIGERIAN FILM MAKERS
Dear Nigerian Movie Producers and Actors, please try and watch Queen of Katwe and learn how movies are made. The characterization, dialogue, sequencing, suspense, moral, story telling, cinematography, and all other elements of a good movie were on point in this movie. And if you have a heart and eyes not made of marble, you'll shed tears while watching this African movie of a female child chess protege. Uganda is not known for film making, they may not churn out 29 movies a day like Nigeria, but in the only movie they've made of note, they killed it. Queen of Katwe, excellent story telling. Not like Nigerian movies that are always about voodoo, get-rich-quick ideology, pathetic action sequence, recycled actors and lame romance. A Nigerian movie will unashamedly cast Mercy Johnson and Kanayo O Kanayo as secondary school pupils. Watch Queen of Katwe and see how directors employed child psychologists and pediatricians to help get children to get ...