Anietie Isong’s ‘Radio Sunrise’ set to hit big screens

By Benjamin Njoku

The movie adaptation of Anietie Isong’s award-winning novel, ‘Radio Sunrise’, is acceptable to premiere connected October 1.

Produced by Emem Isong Misodi of Royal Arts Academy and directed by Uduak Isong Oguamanam of Closer Pictures, the movie boasts a talented cast, including:Bimbo Ademoye, Maurice Sam, Akin Lewis, Uche Montana, Pere Egbi, Tomi Ojo,and Adebowale “Debo” Adedayo (Mr. Macaroni). Kenneth Ochije, Emmanuel Ekpenyong and Anietie Isong were the enforcement producers of the movie.

The communicative explores the commodification of journalism and socio-political realities of the Niger Delta done biting satire and poignant reflection. The book, primitively published successful the UK successful 2017 and republished successful Nigeria by Narrative Landscape Press, won the McKitterick Prize successful the UK and was shortlisted for the 9mobile Prize for Literature.The BBC described the publication arsenic ‘a hilarious, yet sobering instrumentality connected the foibles of Nigerian life.’

The filmmakers’ passionateness and idiosyncratic transportation to the communicative radiance done successful their comments:

“Telling this communicative has been profoundly idiosyncratic for me. As idiosyncratic from the Niger Delta, I’ve seen firsthand the struggles, and the quiescent resilience of radical surviving successful that region. Radio Sunrise gives dependable to truthful galore realities that are often overlooked”, said the director,Udoka

For the producer, Emem Isong-Misodi, “This movie is adjacent to my bosom due to the fact that it speaks to the spot I travel from. The Niger Delta is affluent successful civilization and history, but it’s besides been shaped by years of neglect and conflict. With Radio Sunrise, we wanted to spotlight those complexities with honesty and empathy. At the aforesaid time, it’s breathtaking to spot the Nigerian movie manufacture rising to archer much layered, socially conscious stories. We’re arrogant to beryllium portion of that evolution.”

Adding his dependable the writer of the caller said “Seeing Radio Sunrise adapted for the surface by my sisters is incredibly moving. We each travel from the Niger Delta, and this communicative is rooted successful the land, people, and truths we grew up with. I wrote the caller to shed airy connected the challenges faced by journalists successful a strategy wherever integrity is perpetually tested, and to research the deeper societal and governmental tensions successful our country. I’m arrogant that this adaptation remains existent to those themes, and adjacent prouder that it’s a task driven by family, passion, and purpose.”

The station Anietie Isong’s ‘Radio Sunrise’ acceptable to deed large screens appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.