JOSEPH, an African-Caribbean film recorded huge numbers at its first premiere held on Saturday night at the Accra City Hall (Snap Cinemas).
The movie as part of ‘The Year Of Return’ events for December 2019 festivities featured actors from Ghana, Jamaica and Barbados.
Audience who witnessed the first screening commended the cast, director and producer.
The movie featured actors like Mawuli Gavor, Sika Osei, Christopher MacFarland, Alison Hinds, Shontelle Layne, Adjetey Anang, Edward Agyekum Kufour, Harold Amenyah, Miriam Owusu-Poku and many other actors.
The movie will have its full release to the public on 24th January 2020 at Silverbird Cinemas.
Present at the premiere were Executive Secretary to the President of Ghana – Nana Bediatuo Asante, Mayor of Accra – Mohammed Adjei Sowah, CEO of Ghana Tourism Authority – Akwasi Agyeman, Former Black Stars player – Derrick Boateng, Akorfa Ejeani and many others.
JOSEPH, a feature-film by Step By Step Productions Inc. was directed by Marcia Weekes and Produced by MariettaCarter-Narcisse.
ABOUT JOSEPH MOVIE
JOSEPH is an African-Caribbean film featuring actors from Ghana, Jamaica and Barbados. The star Kevoy Burton is a successful doctor in Jamaica working alongside Mawuli Gavor of Ghana, Christopher MacFarland of Jamaica (his dad), Alison Hinds of Barbados (his mom) and Shontelle Layne of Barbados (his sister). This drama sees the family torn apart between the Caribbean and Africa and the discoveries that ensue.
‘Joseph’ is a film that explores the life of a Jamaican doctor who has Ghanaian ancestors. Throughout his life he’s only considered himself as a Jamaican, but through a series of life twists and turns, he makes the life-changing decision to travel to Ghana and embark on a journey of self-discovery.
The “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” is a major landmark spiritual and birth-right journey inviting the Global African family, home and abroad, to mark 400 years of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia. The arrival of enslaved Africans marked a sordid and sad period when our kith and kin were forcefully taken away from Africa into years of deprivation, humiliation and torture. While August 2019 marks 400 years since enslaved Africans arrived in the United States, “The Year of Return, Ghana 2019” celebrates the cumulative resilience of all the victims of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade who were scattered and displaced through the world in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.
