Ekwa’s award-winning and critically acclaimed feature film Farewell Amor premiered in competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, garnering 100% on Rottentomatoes, and was bought for distribution by IFC Films. Previous to that, she has written & directed several shorts, most recently award-winning comedy Soko Sonko (The Market King), and Farewell Meu Amor starring Tony Award nominee Sahr Ngauja, and actress Nana Mensah of the famed series An African City. For Farewell Amor Ekwa was awarded the Jerome Foundation Grant, Tribeca All Access Fellowship, Cine Qua Non Lab Fellowship, IFP/No Borders, and Sundance Feature Film Development Fellowship. Ekwa has also written & directed several drama series for mainstream broadcasters in Kenya and MNET South Africa, including The Agency, MNET’s first-ever original hour-long Kenyan drama series. In the past Ekwa has been adjunct faculty at Tisch School of the Arts, as well as a recurring mentor in Mira Nair’s East Africa based Maisha Screenwriting Labs. Currently, Ekwa is the resident educational instructor with the African Film Festival, and teaches Screenwriting at The New School and Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn College. One of Ekwa’s key goals as an artist is to transform our society’s images and relationships with African cultures, and to empower African filmmakers in telling their stories.
Farewell Amor
Feature Film
2020
Writer/Director/Producer Ekwa Msangi DP: Bruce Francis Cole
After 17 years in exile, Walter finally reunites with his wife and daughter and they quickly discover how the years of separation have turned them into absolute strangers. As they attempt to overcome the personal and political hurdles amongst them, they rely on the muscle memory of dance to find their way back “home.”
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Farewell Meu Amor
Short Film
2016
- Writer/Director/Producer: Ekwa Msangi
- DP: Shawn Peters
On the morning of the long-awaited reunion with his exiled family, a man is faced with the heartbreak of a different type of parting – from his lover.
Soko Sonko (The Market King)
Short Film
2014
- Writer/Director/Producer: Ekwa Msangi
- DP: Andrew “Dru” Mungai
When her mother falls sick, Kibibi’s father, Ed, is tasked with taking her to the market to get her hair braided before school begins. Soko Sonko is a hilarious, fish‐out of‐water roller‐coaster of a journey, about a well‐intended dad who braves the fires and goes where no man has gone before…because only women have been there!
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What an incredible week at the @luxorafricanfilmfestival where @farewellamorfilm took home Best Diaspora Film! Thanks to all these wonderful people for making the week so memorable. Shukran Luxor! @ Luxor, Egypt https://t.co/uRDrcXp5Ds
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This was such a fun conversation and review!! thank you ladies for your thoughtful breakdown! you have a new fan here as well! https://t.co/Qrs1phtcfI
[NEW EPISODE] This week, we reviewed family-drama #FarewellAmor 💔👨👩👧 (2020) from dir. @ekwapics. Starring @BewareOfTime, @LadyzjahKitty & #JaymeLawson
LISTEN+SUBSCRIBE 🎧
#TheNewChitlinCircuit #PodsInColor
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