Director of Disney’s ‘Madu’ Producing Documentary About Chibok Girls.
The director of Disney’s Madu, Nigerian Kachi Benson, is currently producing a documentary for Hunting Lane and Impact Partners called The Harvest, which explores the 2014 Boko Haram abduction of young Nigerian schoolchildren.
It has been ten years since 276 teenage girls from a school in the Borno state hamlet of Chibok were attacked and abducted by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
Nothing has been disclosed about its plot but the documentary is said to be about four Nigerian women.
Benson had previously produced the documentary titled Daughters of Chibok, which focused on the aftermath of the kidnapping in 2019, the 76th Venice Film Festival presented Daughters of Chibok with the award of Best Immersive Story.
In an interview, the producer of the movie speaking about the Harvest said, “I have spent the last five years with the mothers and survivors of the Chibok kidnappings, I’ve listened to their stories, and what I’ve learnt is that these women are more than the tragedy that is mostly used to describe them. My aim with The Harvest is to give them a platform to tell their own story and show a side to these heroines that the world hardly sees: a community of mothers who have stood, and continue to stand as pillars, working together to make tomorrow better for their children. That is the ultimate bravery.”
Jamie Patricof, Katie McNeill, Rachel Halilej, Samira Mohammed and Adeyinka Oduniyi are the producers of the movie and they have this to say about it; “We were honoured to be able to work with ‘Kachi on this powerful film,” stated Patricof of Hunting Lane. “What the women in this film accomplish is nothing short of miraculous. They are real-life superheroes.”
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