After a successful premiere and screening in Nigerian cinemas, Turning Point from the stable of Niyi Towolawi, the director of Twisted, which got two Africa Movie Academy Award nominations in 2013, has gone ahead to win more awards across the world.
According to
the head honcho of Hekcentric Films, Towolawi, the lead actor of the movie
Igoni Achibong clinched the 2013 City People award for Best Actor. The movie
also won in the Best Drama Category of the Trinidad International Film
Festival.
“These
awards have shown that the movie is making the impact that we dreamt of while
producing it”.
Turning Point has also been nominated for
eight awards at the forthcoming 2013 edition of the Nollywood and African Film
Critics Awards (NAFCA) in the Best Sound, Best Drama Diaspora Film, Best
Screenplay Diaspora Film, Best Cinematography Diaspora Film, Best Actor in
leading role Diaspora Film, Best Actress in leading role Diaspora, Best Actor
in Supporting role Diaspora Film and Best Actress in supporting role Diaspora
Film categories.
In the words
of elated Towolawi, the awards and nominations were as a result of the appeal
of the movie which he described as a compelling drama full of thought provoking
tales, karma, moral justifications and redemption.
The story
follows the life of Ade (Igoni Archibong), a playboy Nigerian-American
investment guru, dating a keen-to-marry African-American Stacey (KD Aubert).
But his manipulative mother (Patience Ozokwor) back in Nigeria would rather her
son gets serious and dumps “that girl with no traceable roots” in favour of a
wife from within her social circle. He is tricked into visiting Nigeria only to
discover an arranged marriage had already been conducted on his behalf with a
complete stranger. The unfolding drama is better imagined than experienced.
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