{"id":5939,"date":"2015-07-28T07:13:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T06:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2015-07-29T07:55:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T06:55:04","slug":"dry-will-be-showing-in-nigerian-cinemas-nationwide-from-august-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=5939","title":{"rendered":"DRY Will Be Showing In Nigerian Cinemas Nationwide from August 14th!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful screening debut in Wales, UK, the critically acclaimed movie \u2018<strong>DRY<\/strong>\u2019 will premiere nationwide in Nigeria beginning August 14th, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Produced, directed, and starring my humble self, the film is an inspired true story that follows a trail of Zara\u2019s (played by me) trip to Africa, her constant turmoil as a result of inexplicable horrors from her child hood, her experiences and heartaches while working with young girls suffering from complications from early child birth as child brides, against the backdrop of a rich African culture. It is full of intrigue, suspense, unbelievable surprises, the joy of reconciliation and the power of the human spirit that is guaranteed to captivate and engage moviegoers.<\/p>\n<p>The film stars: <strong>Darwin Shaw<\/strong> as Dr. Alex, the legendary <strong>Liz Benson Ameye<\/strong> as the Matron, <strong>Bill McNamara<\/strong> as Dr. Brown, and Introducing<strong> Zubaida Ibrahim Fagge<\/strong> as Halima the teenager who had to endure a life not designed for a child: to be married to a man who was more than four times her age. Produced by <strong>Next Page Productions<\/strong>, this film was supported by the Office of the special adviser to the president on MDGs Nigeria, <strong>Aberystwyth University Wales, Diamond Bank, Ford Foundation, Project Act Nollywood, USAID Acquired fistula, Vlisco<\/strong> and more.<\/p>\n<p>Also starring in the film are <strong>Olu Jacobs, Tijjani Faraga, Hauwa Maina, Rahama Hassan, Rekiya Attah, Hakeem Hassan<\/strong> and <strong>Afamefuna Klint Igwemba<\/strong> (aka Klint da drunk). The production\u2019s creative team includes director of photography, <strong>Angel Barroeta<\/strong>, executive producer, <strong>Linus Idahosa<\/strong>, co-produced by <strong>Jane Lawalata<\/strong> with <strong>Akanimo Odon<\/strong> and <strong>Murtza Ali Ghaznavi<\/strong> as line producers and <strong>Chinedu Omorie<\/strong> as first assistant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDry journeys into heart-wrenching details of a culture not too many films dare to explore. The issue might seem controversial, but if it will set one girl free and open the minds of the people, and encourage us all to take action, then the movie would have served its purpose.\u201d \u2013 Stephanie Linus, Writer, Director &amp; Producer.<\/p>\n<p>So SL Fabz, save the date. From Friday August 14th 2015, you can head over to the Cinema near you and watch DRY!<\/p>\n<p>xoxo<\/p>\n<p>SL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful screening debut in Wales, UK, the critically acclaimed movie \u2018DRY\u2019 will premiere nationwide in Nigeria beginning August 14th, 2015. Produced, directed, and starring my humble self, the film is an inspired true story that follows a trail of Zara\u2019s (played by me) trip to Africa, her constant turmoil as a result of inexplicable horrors from her child hood, her experiences and heartaches while working with young girls suffering from complications from early child birth as child brides, against the backdrop of a rich African culture. It is full of intrigue, suspense, unbelievable surprises, the joy of reconciliation and the power of the human spirit that is guaranteed to captivate and engage moviegoers. The film stars: Darwin Shaw as Dr. Alex, the legendary Liz Benson Ameye as the Matron, Bill McNamara as Dr. Brown, and Introducing Zubaida Ibrahim Fagge as Halima the teenager who had to endure a life not designed for a child: to be married to a man who was more than four times her age. Produced by Next Page Productions, this film was supported by the Office of the special adviser to the president on MDGs Nigeria, Aberystwyth University Wales, Diamond Bank, Ford Foundation, Project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[341,351,354,352,339,356,337,452,105,343,350,347,353,304,338,355,111,345,348,349,346,133],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stephs-lounge","tag-aberystwyth-university-wales","tag-afamefuna-klint-igwemba","tag-akanimo-odon","tag-angel-barroeta","tag-bill-mcnamara","tag-chinedu-omorie","tag-darwin-shaw","tag-diamond-bank","tag-dry","tag-ford-foundation","tag-hakeem-hassan","tag-hauwa-maina","tag-jane-lawalata","tag-linus-idahosa","tag-liz-benson-ameye","tag-murtza-ali-ghaznavi","tag-next-page-productions","tag-olu-jacobs","tag-rahama-hassan","tag-rekiya-attah","tag-tijjani-faraga","tag-vlisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5941,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions\/5941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}