There’s so much background to the indie drama Nigerian Prince, but here’s what you need to know: the movie is the directorial debut from Faraday Okoro, the Nigerian-American filmmaker who received a $1 million grant from AT&T’s Untold Stories program to make the film. Making its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year,... Read More

If you are wondering who Faraday Okoro is, here’s a crash course: he is a NYU graduate student and became the inaugural winner of the Tribeca Film Festival’s AT&T Untold Stories program, a competition designed to champion diverse artistes who are underrepresented in mainstream cinema. Given that he had only previously produced shorts, this triumph... Read More