Daniel Oriahi’s Tribeca Film Festival selection ‘The Weekend’ heads to cinemas in August.

Out of an impressive 13,016 submissions, The Weekend was selected as one of the final offerings at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival in New York. It was the only Nollywood film to be screened at the international festival this year. The annual festival attracts many individuals in the film community to the Tribeca district of New York City for a celebration of cinema.

The movie is produced by Trino Motion Pictures. The cast include Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Bucci Franklin, Meg Otanwa, James Gardiner, Gloria Anozie, and Keppy Ekpeyong Bassey.

In an interview with The New York Times, Oriahi spoke about making the movie, which he said is a big-budget film by Nollywood standards.

I haven’t had the opportunity to make necessarily big-budget films, and in the Nigerian landscape, The Weekend is seen as a high-budget film. Such films are rare to come by. But I pride myself as a filmmaker who wants to make films that are seen, so I’ve made a lot of stuff for local streamers. Over time, I have discovered I am drawn to narratives that have dysfunctional family dynamics. I come from a country where it’s very dysfunctional, to be honest,” he said.

SOURCE;PULSE Ng