Ndiva Women’s Film Festival 2019: Sunday by Angella Emurwon (Uganda)

Ndiva Women’s Film Festival 

(Ghana)

NWFF 2019

Sunday

Angella Emurwon

Uganda

Fiction

Synopsis

Anna and JJ have loved each other from childhood and have been married a long time. But JJ has a debilitating mental illness that has slowly chipped away at their life leaving nothing but flat routine.  Anna starts each day the same. She has made a ritual of her life that helps both her and JJ cope. (25 min 27 sec)

Biography

Angella Emurwon is a writer, award-winning playwright, and filmmaker. She divides her time between an uneventful writing life in Tororo, Uganda and her exciting work mentoring screenwriters. She has written two radio plays that have won BBC Radio Drama awards; one of which, Sunflowers behind a Dirty Fence, is being adapted into a feature film. In 2016, she wrote and directed a short film, Sunday. (Source: http://maishafilmlab.org/maisha-mentor/angella-emurwon/)