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Friday, August 9, 2013

Turning Point gets global honours

 
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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