Monday, January 14, 2013

Tunde Kelani Shoots Movie About Sickle Cell

Award winning producer-director, Tunde Kelani has announced plans to begin shooting a new movie in a few weeks.
The new project is an adaptation of the book Dazzling Mirage, written by Olayinka Abimbola Egbokhare, about a person living with sickle cell.
‘I’m intrigued by the writer’s approach to weave a love story with it and that to me, it is an attraction. I have also had personal relationship with sufferers of this ailment and I consider it my responsibility to bring their story to [the] fore’, Kelani said.
The story narrates the travails of a sickle cell patient who has to face several challenges because of her genotype.

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