Channel 4 is reuniting the makers of its award winning film The Last King Of Scotland to make a new drama inspired by the evils of people-trafficking.
The film, currently untitled, will bring together the writer Jeremy Brock and producer Andrea Calderwood on their first project since The Last King of Scotland, with which Forest Whitaker won the best actor Oscar for his portrayal of Idi Amin. The new film is being directed by Gabriel Range, who directed Channel 4's 2006 spoof documentary Death of a President.
Their new project tells the story of Malia, played by Moses Jones actor Wunmi Mosaku, who is snatched from her Sudanese village and sold into slavery before eventually being sent to work in London.
Co-starring will be Nonso Anozie, who appeared in the BBC1 Iraq film Occupation, and Igal Naor, who played Saddam Hussein in BBC2's drama The House of Saddam. The latter part of the 90-minute film will see the heroine struggle to find her way back to Sudan and to her father.
Production has already begun on the movie, which is being made by Slate Films/Potboiler Productions and the Borough Picture Company. Financing is by Channel 4, the UK Film Council, the Film Agency for Wales, Limelight and Molinare.
The film is being distributed internationally by ContentFilm and may have a theatrical release in the UK before its television premiere on Channel 4 later this year.
Camilla Campbell, Channel 4 head of drama, said: "This project continues C4's established reputation for tackling difficult subject matter that sets the agenda. With the writer and producer of the Oscar winning Last King of Scotland, as well as the director of Death of a President, this will be an outstanding piece of film-making which will raise challenging and difficult questions."
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