{"id":377107,"date":"2017-11-24T07:29:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=377107"},"modified":"2017-11-24T07:31:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T07:31:32","slug":"joselyn-dumas-wins-toronto-international-nollywood-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=377107","title":{"rendered":"Joselyn Dumas wins at Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghanaian actress Joselyn Dumas was named \u2018Best Actress\u2019 at the recently held\u00a0Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival\u00a0for her lead role in Shirley Frimpong Manso\u2019s \u2018Potato Potahto\u2019.<\/p>\n

The movie, a romantic comedy, was premiered in Lagos last week and is expected to be premiered in Accra, at the Silverbird Cinema on November 30, 2017.<\/p>\n

\u2018Potato Potahto\u2019 has featured at international film festivals such as Cannes Film Festival, Durban International Film Festival and the British Urban Film Festival.<\/p>\n

It was also selected for the Film Africa Festival which was held from October 27 to November 5, 2017.<\/p>\n

The film, an African comedy of errors, is about a divorced couple who cannot agree on divorce terms and settle for co-ownership of their matrimonial home and other property.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Potato Potahto\u2019 stars Nigerian actor OC Ukeje and Ghana\u2019s Joselyn Dumas who play the lead roles, alongside Joke Silva, Blossom Chuckwujekwu, Chris Attoh, Nikki Samonas, Adjetey Annang, Lala Akindoju and Victoria Michaels.<\/p>\n

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At a press screening of the movie on about a week ago, Shirley Frimpong Manso said that the movie was collaboration between Ghanaians, Nigerians and some Swedish people.She also added that due to the vagaries of the film production in Ghana, she adopted a different strategy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPotato Patahto has been out for almost a year but we\u2019ve decided to have a different approach. We decided to pursue different market because Ghana is not enough anymore. We been to festivals and we\u2019re releasing in other countries too,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u2018Potato Potahto\u2019 highlights the fact that marriages are fraught with challenges and it takes the two to iron out their differences.<\/p>\n

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By: Kwame Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghanaian actress Joselyn Dumas was named \u2018Best Actress\u2019 at the recently held\u00a0Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival\u00a0for her lead role in Shirley Frimpong Manso\u2019s \u2018Potato Potahto\u2019. The movie, a romantic comedy, was premiered in Lagos last week and is expected to be premiered in Accra, at the Silverbird Cinema on November 30, 2017. \u2018Potato Potahto\u2019 has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":377108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[3,14883,14884],"class_list":["post-377107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-ghana-news","tag-joselyn-dumas","tag-toronto-international-nollywood-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/377108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}