LAFF 2016: First Clip To Leila Djansi’s Like Cotton TwinesPosted by Wilson Morales
May 31, 2016
Here’s the first clip to Leila Djansi’s Like Cotton Twines, which will make its World Premiere at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival on June 2 in the World Fiction Competition.
Directed and written by Leila Djansi, the film stars Jay Ellis, Ophelia Dzidzornu, Miranda Bailey, Yvonne Okoro, Luckie Lawson and David Dontoh.
Micah Brown (Jay Ellis), an American English teacher thought his life in Ghana was going to be serene and self satisfying until he discovers his student, 14 year-old Tuigi (Ophelia Dzidzornu) is being forced to drop out of school. To atone for her father’s crime, she will become a Trokosi – Wife of the gods. A practice of religious sexual slavery. Locked in a battle between church and state, the past and the present, Micah is determined to help Tuigi have a life outside this tradition.
