Half Of A Yellow Sun- The Movie

 Half of a Yellow Sun follows the lives of several characters before and during the Nigerian-Biafran War of 1967-1970.

CREEK TOWN, NIGERIA -- Six days into shooting the film adaptation of "Half of a Yellow Sun," the bestselling novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, cast and crew in this small tropical village had grown used to life in the trenches.
Daytime temperatures hit muggy highs in the 90s. 

The start of the rainy season had the makeshift dressing room for a cast that includes Thandie Newton, Dominic Cooper and Chiwetel Ejiofor looking like a triage unit. But spirits were high, as the production, which wrapped principal photography in June, marks the most ambitious attempt yet to bring Hollywood-style filmmaking to a nation-best known for the low-budget fare of its local Nollywood industry. 

Far from the smoothly run locations industries of South Africa and Kenya, the producers know they're blazing a trail in a country that still scares off most potential filmmakers and investors. For co-producer Andrea Calderwood, who lensed "The Constant Gardener" and "The Last King of Scotland" in Kenya and Uganda at a time when both nations were largely uncharted territory for filmmakers, the upside is clear. "At that time, nobody wanted to let us make a film in East Africa," she says, "but now people don't think twice about shooting in Kenya." In order to give investors confidence in filming in a country that remains untested, Calderwood says the goal of "Yellow Sun" was to show the film as being international in scope from the beginning.

 The cast includes recognizable foreign talent. When executive producer Yewande Sadiku began to raise financing, she worked with a U.K. sales agent and secured a bond for the film. Her pitch to Nigerian investors -- who ponied up roughly 80% of the coin -- was based on international sales estimates. 

Foreign partners like the British Film Institute gave the proposal more muscle. Nigeria, as Calderwood points out, is a business-oriented culture with a can-do attitude. Once investors were confident in the film's potential, they began lining up. In the end, the producers raised more than $7 million.

Credited cast:
	Thandie Newton	...	Olanna
	Chiwetel Ejiofor	...	Odenigbo
	Anika Noni Rose	...	Kainene
	Joseph Mawle	...	Richard
	John Boyega	...	Ugwu
	Rob David	...	Redhead Charles
	Hakeem Kae-Kazim	...	Captain DUTSE
	Genevieve Nnaji	...	Ms Adebayo
	Babou Ceesay	...	Okeoma
	O.C. Ukeje	...	Aniekwena
	Paul Hampshire	...	Professor Lehman
	Onyeka Onwenu	...	Mama
	Susan Wokoma	...	Amala
	Zack Orji

We are looking forward to a 2013 release date