NIGERIAN PRINCE is the debut feature film from writer-director Faraday Okoro. Okoro was a winner of $1 Million in AT&T’s Untold Stories competition in 2017 and had his film feature in the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. The film is executive produced by Spike Lee alongside Sam Pollard and Biyi Bandele and stars Antonio J. Bell, Chinaza Uche, Tina Mba, Bimbo Manuel, Toyin Oshinaike, and Craig Stott.
When troubled American teenager Eze is sent away to his mother’s native Nigeria against his will, he quickly finds himself entangled in a dangerous web of scams and corruption, with his magnetic con-artist cousin Pius as his guide. Nigerian Prince, the electric debut feature from writer-director Faraday Okoro, seamlessly blends thrilling sequences of elaborate deception and dramatic tension with surprising moments of humor, making it so much more than a fish out of water tale.
US distribution rights to the movie have been obtained by Vertical Entertainment. The movie is set to release in theaters on October 19.
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