Say Grace Before Drowning
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By NIKYATU JUSU | Fall 2015
After meeting her African Refugee mother for the first time in six years, 8 year old Hawa is forced to coexist with a woman teetering on the brink of insanity.
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Sierra Leonean-American filmmaker Nikyatu's short films have played at festivals nationally and internationally, garnering her NYU’s prestigious Spike Lee Fellowship Award, the Princess Grace Foundation Narrative film grant and Director’s Guild of America Honorable Mentions, to name a few. Nikyatu studied narrative filmmaking at New York University’s MFA film program and lives and teaches in Brooklyn, NY. |
