A Taste of Our Land (2020): Michael Wawuyo Sr. & Princess Alia

  The FILM:  A Taste of Our Land (2020) ( Drama | 84 min)

While trying to provide for his pregnant wife, Yohani, an older African man (Michael Wawuyo Sr.), retrieves a gold nugget in a Chinese-run mine built on his land and runs away to sell it for $100. When he learns its real value, he becomes as obsessed with it as Cheng (Panagiotis Karakitsos), the Chinese mine supervisor who will stop at nothing to get it back.

Set in an unnamed African country, 'A Taste of Our Land' is a film about greed told against the backdrop of colonialism and the current Chinese influence in Africa.

The CAST:

Yohani - Michael Wawuyo Sr. (Kafa Coh 2022)

Yohani's Wife - Princess Aliya

Actor - Michael Sseggujja

Donald - Jonathon Wardley (27 Guns 2018)

Chinese Miner - Panagiotis Karakitsos

PHOTOS:

  

The CREW:

Director: Yuri Amuli (The Island 2017)

Writer: Yuri Amuli

Producers: Yuri Amuli, Mutiganda Wa Nkunda (The Secret of Happiness 2017)

Co-Producers: Rauben Mwahulwa, Lucky Laura Atwine

Cinematographer (D.O.P): Joshua Alibet (Keycard 2021)

Composer (Original Soundtrack): Cecil Kayiregawa (Neptune Frost 2021), Vincent Niyigaba

Editor: Joshua Alibet (Keycard 2021), Ali Musoke (N.G.O - Nothing Going On 2016)

Sound Design: Shantos Ssekito (aKasha 2018)

Executive Producers: Hester Lanting, Philip West Arscott.

Production Company: IZACU, Witsaflicks, Stone Age Pictures, Nomadic Image & Jajja Productions.

Country of Origin: Uganda, Rwanda.
Language: English.
Date of Release: December 21, 2020 (In Poland, Uganda and South Africa)

Reviews:

"Credit is due to the filmmakers for avoiding the conventional African film tropes of war, HIV, and witchcraft to focus on the growing Chinese influence in Africa. It’s rare to see an African film implicating other national powers." – Rowan Sullivan, Film Root.

AWARDS:

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Won: 2020, Best First Feature Narrative, Pan African Film Festival.
                    2020, Best First Feature Film, Africa Movie Academy Awards.

❤️ 

Official Selection: 2020, New African Film Festival, African Diaspora International Film Festival.
        

NEWS about this Film:

The film was inspired by the director’s experience working in a Chinese mine in Rwanda, where he saw a colleague beaten so badly he was hospitalised. His crime? Asking for his pay - Source, Film Root.

WATCH THE TRAILER for 'A Taste of Our Land' (1:31 min):