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Like Cotton Twines is a 2016 film written and directed by Ghanaian-American filmmaker Leila Djansi. Djansi's film Like Cotton Twines was an official selection to the 2016 Los Angeles film Festival under the World Fiction Section, the film went on to win the best narrative feature at the Savannah Film festival in 2016. Plot
Like Cotton Twines: Directed by Leila Djansi. With Irene Adotey, Adjetey Anang, Brian Angels, Miranda Bailey. An American volunteer teaching in a school in Africa must save one of his students, a 14 year old girl from religious slavery.
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Jan 20, 2017 · Like Cotton Twines tells the story of Tuigi (Ophelia Klenam Dzidzornu), a 13-year-old girl who is forced into sex slavery as payment for father’s mistake. An American volunteer named Micah...
Djansi's LIKE COTTON TWINES was an official selection to the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival under the World Fiction Section. The film shot entirely on location in Ghana explores issues of modern-day slavery when an African American volunteer travels to a rural community in Ghana to teach and discovers one of his students, a 14-year-old girl has ...
Sep 17, 2018 · Leila Djansi is a Ghanaian-American writer and filmmaker who tackled this subject in her movie Like Cotton Twines (available on Netflix) in 2016 through a protagonist named Tuigi. The movie stars Jay Ellis who plays Micah, an American teacher on assignment to teach English in Ghana’s Volta region.
Feb 5, 2022 · Leila Djansi’s film In Cotton Twines offers little glimpses of hope for an African teenage girl named Tuigi stuck in old ways. While set in a modern time with patriarchal structures and problematic religious practices set in stone, Black women and girls like Tuigi suffer the most tremendous costs.
Feb 8, 2017 · Premiering on UMC in January, Like Cotton Twines is a harrowing story of sexual slavery justified by religious tradition. Ellis is also co-executive producer.
