Ogo Okpue, a Nigerian filmmaker working in the United Kingdom, won the Best Director prize at the 2023 American Black Film Festival for his movie “A Song From The Dark.”
At the ceremony, which took place in Miami, Florida, Okpue and aspiring African American filmmaker Bryan Keith Montgomery Jnr. shared the prize.
The American Black Film Festival, which is currently in its 27th year, was founded to promote audio-visual creations of black origin. It is the largest black film festival in the world.
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A Song From the Dark which also won the Best Actor category at the American Black Film Festival had 6 nominations at the 2022 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in Nigeria while winning Okpue, the Best Director for First Feature Film at the last AMAA event.
Starring Nollywood’s Nse Ikpe Etim, and Wale Ojo alongside Ghanaian-born Vanessa Vanderpuye, Octavia Gilmore, and Dean Kilby amongst others, the film is a fantasy-horror, positioned to project heroes and heroines of African traditional mysticism.
Okpue, during his acceptance speech dedicated the award to God and his family and friends.
He said, “You only do something you are sure you believe in. Thank you, God. Thank you, my wife. Thank you, my casting crew. I’m overwhelmed, thank you so much.”
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