Faraday Okoro’s “Nigerian Prince” is the first winner of AT&T’s Untold Stories program, a “Shark Tank”-like competition in which an underrepresented filmmaker bags a $1 million grant to produce a film. But the money comes with the added pressure of having to premiere the film 12 months later at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Okoro, a 31-year old Nigerian-American – who studied under Spike Lee at NYU’s graduate film school – premiered “Nigerian Prince” at the 2018 festival. He teamed with actor Antonio Bell (“Greenleaf”) to help tell his semi-autobiographical story about Eze (Bell), a Nigerian-American teenager sent by his mother to Nigeria, where he teams up with his cousin Pius to scam foreigners in an effort to raise money for a return ticket back to the States.
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