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Directed by | Obi Emelonye |
Produced by | Patrick Campbell |
Written by | Obi Emelonye |
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Narrated by | Frazier James |
Cinematography | Clive Norman |
Edited by | Andrew Webber |
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120 min |
Country | Nigeria |
Language | English |
Budget | £250,000 (estimated) |
The Mirror Boy is a 2011 Nigerian fantasy adventure drama film written and directed by Obi Emelonye, produced by Patrick Campbell and starring Genevieve Nnaji, Osita Iheme and Edward Kagutuzi. The film which was shot in England and the Gambia, received 3 nominations at the 2011 Africa Movie Academy Awards.
The film tells the uplifting story of a young teenage African British boy who is taken back to the land of his mother's birth, but then gets mysteriously lost in a foreboding forest and embarks on a magical journey that teaches him about himself and the mystery of the father he has never seen.