Farewell Amor
Logline
After 17 years in exile, Walter’s wife and daughter are reunited with him in the U.S., now absolute strangers. They struggle to overcome the personal and political hurdles between them, sacrificing the lives they built while separated and need to rely on the muscle memory of Angolan dance to rediscover each other.
Ekwa Msangi
DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER, PRODUCER
Ekwa has written & directed several shorts, most recently award-winning comedy SOKO SONKO (The Market King), recipient of the Ousmane Sembene Short Film Development award, which produced her newly released film FAREWELL MEU AMOR starring Tony Award nominee Sahr Ngauja, and actress Nana Mensah of the famed series AN AFRICAN CITY. She is currently in development on the feature-length sequel FAREWELL AMOR and received the 2018 Jerome Foundation Grant and Tribeca All Access Fellowship to that end.
Ekwa has also written & directed several drama series for mainstream broadcasters in Kenya and MNET South Africa, including THE AGENCY, MNET’s first ever original hour-long Kenyan drama series. Ekwa was selected for the 2012 Focus Features’ Africa First Program and the 2016 Berlin Talent Campus. In the past Ekwa has been adjunct faculty at Tisch School of the Arts, as well as a recurring mentor in Mira Nair’s East Africa based Maisha Screenwriting Labs. Currently Ekwa is the resident educational instructor with the African Film Festival, teaches Screenwriting 3 at The New School, and Short Film Screenwriting at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn College. Ekwa’s first webseries ALL MY FRIENDS ARE MARRIED launched to rave reviews, and she is in development on her first feature documentary about Tanzania’s first president, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, and her podcast entitled African Cinema NOW!
Huriyyah Muhammad
PRODUCER
Huriyyah Muhammad is an avid writer, director and producer whose passion lies at the intersection of telling great stories and helping others do the same. As an independent film producer, she has led the production of multiple feature films from development to market, and recently completed projects in Kenya and India. More recently, her supernatural web-series, KELOID, was met with rave reviews and continues to win awards. Huriyyah is now in the development phase, producing the narrative feature film FAREWELL AMOR, which was recently awarded the competitive Jerome Foundation Grant.
Bruce Francis Cole
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Bruce Francis Cole is a cinematographer who lives in both NY and LA and works globally. Early in his childhood he was an exceptional student in the form of visual art. Raised in the inner-city, his art carried him to places beyond his immediate surroundings. After traveling around America working for non-profit social justice programs and inspired by the late Haskell Wexler, he decided to explore film as an art form. Eventually after studying cinematography at both UNCSA (David Gordon Green, Jeff Nichols) and The American Film Institute, he worked his way up from electrician to gaffer and eventually DP.