Urbanworld 2016 Preview: Leila Djansi’s Like Cotton TwinesPosted by Wilson Morales
September 22, 2016
Making an appearance at the 2016 Urbanworld Film Festival is Leila Djansi’s Like Cotton Twines, which made its World Premiere at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival.
Directed and written by 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.
