EXCLUSIVE: Dekanalog has picked up North American rights to the Sundance competition title Mami Wata, the third feature film from Nigerian filmmaker C.J. “Fiery” Obasi. Based on West African mermaid ...

Seven years before its Jan. 23 world premiere in Park City — the first-time that a homegrown Nigerian feature has scored a coveted slot in the World Cinema Dramatic competition at Sundance — C.J.

Long before 'mermaidcore,' Black mermaids haunted American history, their siren song a clarion call for rebellion against ...

Cinemalovers has acquired all rights in Germany and Austria for “Mami Wata,” which world premiered in the World Cinema – Dramatic section of the Sundance Film Festival, and won the cinematography ...

EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian filmmaker C.J. “Fiery” Obasi debuts his third feature Mami Wata in competition at Sundance later this month. Today, Deadline can share a first-look clip from the film. Watch the ...

For decades, the image of a surf lifestyle has been one of Southern California’s chief exports, but for too long it’s been tied to an all-white, geographically limited ideal. “Everyone assumed the ...

Oge Obasi was finally able to exhale. The Nigerian producer was in the freezing mountains of Park City, Utah, to present her latest feature, ‘Mami Wata’ at this year’s Sundance film festival. Directed ...

Nigerian epic story heads for international theatrical release this month. Mami Wata heads for US debut this month. [Twitter/FieryCJ] C.J. "Fiery" Obasi, the director of Mami Wata, has announced the ...

When a South African surf company wanted to put African culture on the global surfing map, it knew it needed a distinct African symbol. It chose the name Mami Wata or “Mother Ocean,” a mermaid-like ...