An African family, lost in America, travels to a Louisiana church to find a cure for its problem child. " BONESHAKER " written and directed by Frances Bodomo 12 min / Super16mm / Colour 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection 2013 Pan African Film Festival, Official Selection CAST BLESSING - Quvenzhané Wallis WILLIE - Playshena Rose Thomas GRANDMA - Caroline Idakula FATHER - Moussa Kone PASTOR - Dr. Stella, God’s Warrior Princess PRODUCERS Executive Producers - Felecia Hunter, Kwabena Ayirebi, Theresa Dery Producers - Alana Pryor Ackerman, Frances Bodomo Co-Producers - Shruti Rya Ganguly, Wyatt Rockefeller Production also funded by Kickstarter Backers CREW Unit Production Manager - Alana Pryor Ackerman Cinematography - Joshua James Richards Production Design - Laura Moss Costume Design - Sarah Williams Assistant Director - Chloé Zhao Script Supervisor - Elif Eda Karagöz 1st AC - Benjamin Rutkowski 2nd AC - Margherita Arco Gaffer - Chananun Chotrungroj Production Sound - Katrina Whalen Boom Operator - Jackson Blalock Chef/Catering - Andru Okun Transportation - Joey O’Mahoney, Jackson Blalock Editor - Pau Dalmases
Boneshaker directed by Frances Bodomo, Sundance Film Festival 2013 ( U.S. Narrative Short Films) Quvenzhané Wallis. Photo by Joshua James Richards. Boneshaker follows a Ghanaian immigrant family taking a road trip to a Pentecostal church in Louisiana to cure its problem child. As the family journeys to a tent revival at the ends of the levee-less Louisiana delta, they discover the complications of trying to perform a traditional ritual away from home. Boneshaker focuses on the feelings of homelessness, landlessness, and rootlessness that accompany immigration.
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Boneshaker ( U.S. Narrative Short Films) Director Frances Bodomo. Photo by Marie Constantinesco. NUOTAMA FRANCES BODOMO is a Ghanaian filmmaker based in New York City. She grew up on four continents—in Ghana, Norway, California, and Hong Kong—before moving to New York to attend Columbia University as a Kluge Scholar. She received her B.A. in English Literature and Film Studies in 2010. Her thesis focused on making African-generated images part of the popular image of Africa. Her work features doppelgangers, imaginary friends, ventriloquist dummies, and the un-institutionalized crazies who constantly break society’s view of itself.Her ultimate goal is to make conceptually strong films that bring African images to the forefront. She is currently an MFA Candidate and Dean’s Fellow at NYU’s Graduate Film Program. She was inspired to make Boneshaker for a generation of kids that have nowhere to call home.