Aya Films has acquired U.K. rights to “Mami Wata,” which world premiered in the World Cinema – Dramatic section of the Sundance Film Festival, and won the Cinematography Award. Variety is debuting the ...

The film Mami Wata is doing something different. Firstly, while many (well-made) films set on the African continent — at least those made by Africans themselves anyway — often take the time to show ...

Filmmaker C.J. Obasi’s project has received rave reviews, earning the Special Jury Award for cinematography at the festival. From thrilling documentaries to powerful dramas, the Sundance Film Festival ...

A folkloric African water deity is the titular focus of Mami Wata, the Sundance-premiering film from writer-director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi. The revered Mama Efe (Rita Edochie) serves as the conduit ...

A priestess serves as the intermediary for a water spirit in this poetic stunner, the first homegrown Nigerian film to debut at the festival. Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the ...

An onyx sea, white rippled through inky black, foams away in the moonlight. Grasping for sand it whispers and burbles, as if talking to the shore. On the beach two women stand, deep in discussion ...

Nigeria has submitted CJ Obasi’s Sundance title Mami Wata as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film in the 96th Academy Awards. Inspired by West African mermaid folklore and mythology, ...

Oge Obasi was finally able to exhale. The Nigerian producer was in the freezing mountains of Park City, Utah, to present her latest feature, ‘Mami Wata’ at this year’s Sundance film festival. Directed ...

‘Mami Wata” is the unseen goddess of the sea worshiped by all in an evocatively photographed black-and-white film of the same name that takes place in a coastal West African village whose citizens ...