Sometime in 2017, the pictures began to make their rounds on social media. Nollywood superstar Genevieve Nnaji was entering the filmmaking business, but unlike in Road to Yesterday, this time she is directing. After a long wait, the premiere is finally near.
Lionheart is an upcoming movie directed by Genevieve Nnaji, produced by Chinny Onwugbenu and starring Genevieve Nnaji, Nkem Owoh, Pete Edochie, and Onyeka Onwenu. The movie is set to premiere this September at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
In order to save her father’s ailing bus company, competent but perennially overlooked Adaeze must find a way to work alongside feckless uncle Godswill, in the sharp and comically observed directorial debut from Nollywood star Genevieve Nnaji.
Nollywood superstar Genevieve Nnaji returns to TIFF, this time behind the camera with a directorial debut that puts a new spin on the old adage “family and business don’t mix.”
Nnaji plays Adaeze, a level-headed executive in her father’s bus company, Lionheart Transport. Time and again, Adaeze has proven her keen ability to make a profit and to manage the most heated situations. But when her father (stalwart star Pete Edochie) falls ill, both she and her rival (Kalu Egbui Ikeagwu, boosting the marquee cast) are passed over in favour of Adaeze’s less-than-suave uncle, Godswill (Nkem Owoh, who lights up the screen with his comic presence)
Determined to fight her way to the top, but not wanting to go against her father’s wishes, Adaeze feels like the proverbial bus has left the station without her. She must quickly shift gears, however, when she and Godswill discover that Lionheart is running on fumes, financially. Together, the unlikely duo must come together to save the company and their family name.
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