Leila Djansi’s “Like Cotton Twines”: Savannah Film Festival (USA) Best Narrative Feature

Leila Djansi’s “Like Cotton Twines”

Savannah Film Festival (USA)

Best Narrative Feature

Source (text and images):

http://www.turningpointpics.com/in-production 

Synopsis

Leila Djansi on set

Micah Brown (Jay Ellis), an American English teacher thought his life in Ghana was going to be serene and self satisfying until he discovers his student, 14 year-old Tuigi is being forced to drop out of school. To atone for her father's crime, she will become a Trokosi – Wife of the gods. A practice of religious sexual slavery. Locked in a battle between church and state, the past and the present, Micah is determined  to help Tuigi have a life outside this tradition.

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Leila Djansi: A Portrait