Anchor Baby is a movie movie to watch out for, not just cos the producer is my brother but also cos for a fact, it's an excellent production with an amazing story line.
The movie is about a married, illegal immigrant couple Joyce (Omoni Oboli) and Paul Unanga (Sam Sarpong) have been ordered by the U.S. immigration to leave the country. They decide that they will leave, but only after Joyce, who is five months pregnant, delivers her baby in the U.S. This will guarantee automatic U.S. citizenship for their child. Ignoring the deportation order the couple goes into hiding. Later, Paul is caught and deported by a team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, led by agent Mark Castello (Michael Scratch). This leaves Joyce to struggle on her own to accomplish their dream.
But bureaucracy keeps getting in the way of Joyce achieving her goal and just as she is about to give up hope, she meets Susan Backley (Terri Oliver), a married freelance writer who offers to help in the form of safe, free accommodation until the baby is born. With the help of her newfound friend, Joyce sets out to make the ‘American Dream’ come true for her unborn child.
Anchor Baby highlights the struggles of many immigrants in the United States and other developed countries across the world, and features Nigerian “Nollywood” star Omoni Oboli (Figurine, Guilty Pleasures), Ghanaian-raised LA-based Sam Sarpong (Street Kings, The Dedd Brothers, Keeping Up with the Steins) and Canadian actress/songwriter Terri Oliver.
The movie was recently entered for the Harlem International Film Festival and it scooped the Best Film Award and the Best Actress Award went to Omoni Oboli for her outstanding performance. So, obviously, this is not a "joke-joke" movie.
Another award is the one won by my big bro, Lonzo, who was selected by Reel World Film Festival as one of the Emerging 20 Filmmakers in Canada...
That's something.... more so, we should all be set to go and watch the movie when it hits the cinemas in Nigeria, U.K. etc.
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