Amma Asante, Vamba Sherif, Joyce DiDonato
The director Amma Asante talks about her new film A United Kingdom and opera singer Joyce DiDonato on performing for men in a maximum security prison in New York
Director Amma Asante talks about her latest film A United Kingdom and the challenges that women still face in the film industry. Opera singer Joyce DiDonato on performing for men in a maximum security prison in New York. Liberian writer Vamba Sherif discusses using letters to create authentic detail in his historical novel Land of My Fathers. And Aaron Eckhart talks starring alongside Tom Hanks in Sully and explains how a childhood travelling around the world formed him as an actor. Joining Nikki this week are LA based British film maker Ngozi Onwurah and award winning Nigerian novelist Chibundo Onuzo.
(Photo: Amma Asante (c) Gareth Cattermole/Getty, Vamba Sherif (c) Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, Joyce DiDonato (c) Ilya S. Savenok/Getty)
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