‘Bisesero: A Daughter’s Story:’ Eugene Boateng Joins Pan-African Rwanda Genocide Drama — EFM
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: German actor Eugene Boateng (Borga) has joined the cast of Rwanda genocide drama Bisesero: A Daughter’s Story.
Boateng joins Tracy Kababiito (African Folktales), Wale Ojo (The Foundation), and Isabelle Kabano (Sometimes in April) in the film, which has been billed as the first major feature about the tragic events in Rwanda in 1994 to be told exclusively about and by Africans.
Between 500,000 to 800,000 people belonging to the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa were killed by armed Hutu militias over the course of 100 days between April 7 and July 15, 1994.
Nigerian director Ema Edosio-Deelen will direct from a script that she is co-writing with award-winning Rwandan director and screenwriter Joël Karekezi.
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