A film dedicated to the Chibok school girls abducted in north eastern Nigeria has premiered in the USA. The short documentary is the the first Nigerian production ever selected to debut at the prestigious Sundance International Film Festival, focuses on the Chibok girls.
“The short documentary, waiting for Hassana, tells the story of the Chibok abductions from a single perspective – a voice of one of the fifty-seven escapees.” Said a statement by Adam Segal, a representative of The 2050 Group – Publicity, obtained by the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
The film tells the story of 276 teenage girls who came together for exams in Chibok, Nigeria but by dawn, nearly all had disappeared and their school was burnt. Jessica, an escapee, shares her haunting account of a friendship violently interrupted by Boko Haram.
Waiting for Hassana is a powerful short documentary directed by Ifunanya ‘Funa’ Maduka and produced by Uzodinma Iweala and Ifunanya Maduka premiered before thousands of fans at the Sundance film festival one of the largest independent film festival in the U.S.
276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.
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