The duo of Genevieve Nnaji and Ishaya Bako return again eight years after the success of “Road to Yesterday” with the film adaptation of Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s acclaimed 2009 novel, “I Do Not Come To You By Chance”
Ishaya Bako (The Royal Hibiscus Hotel, TIFF ’17) directs this adaptation of Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s award-winning 2009 novel about a struggling Nigerian graduate whose only surefire path forward seems to be abetting his shady uncle’s fraudulent email scam.
Kingsley (Paul Nnadiekwe) has always been smart. As a child, he would help his uncle, Boniface (Blossom Chukwujekwu), write letters to people abroad. Each message was addressed to a stranger, professing his uncle’s undying love and urgent need of financial assistance. Envelopes containing cash and money orders would come in return but, when Kingsley’s mother found out about her son’s involvement, she banished her brother from the house. Fifteen years later, now a university graduate, Kingsley can’t find work. Faced with his father’s expensive medical care and no apparent options, he makes the uncomfortable decision to ask Uncle Boniface for help.
Now a well-respected big man preferring to be called “Cash Daddy,” Boniface offers to provide much more than just Kingsley’s father’s medical expenses. Still jobless and shouldering the responsibilities of the opara (the firstborn son in Igbo culture), Kingsley must choose between a chance at the life his father fought for him to have and the path now laying at his feet.
The 1 hour and 45minute movie is filmed in Igbo and English. It is set to premiere worldwide this September (2023) at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
The movie is directed by Ishaya Bako (Road to Yesterday, The Royal Hibiscus Hotel), co-written by Chika Anadu and executive produced by Genevieve Nnaji. IDNCTYBC is produced by Chioma Onyenwe, Chinny Carter, and Genevieve Nnaji. So far, the released cast includes Blossom Chukwujekwu and Paul Nnadiekwe alongside Jennifer Eliogu, Sambasa Nzeribe and Beverly Osu.
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