Romance Is Overrated is a series of short films written and directed by Belinda Yanga-Agedah.
SYNOPSIS:
Romance is Overrated (RIO) is a tapestry of 3 independent but mutually inclusive short films which reveal young individuals who are struggling with their illusions of the idea of love and commitment as they face their various demons. This unfolds in 3 chapters: Slow Fade, Romance is still Overrated and Two Colours of Rainbow.SLOW FADE: Slow Fade canvases the life of soulful musician, Toke whose expressions, are brewed from the pain of a deep sense of regret premised on the loss of his great love Isis.ROMANCE IS STILL OVERRATED: Romance is Still Overrated frames the life of KB; whose future is left to the tenets of fate as decided by his fiance Kike, after he makes an Anthrax coded confession on the arrival of Nicole.TWO COLOURS OF RAINBOW: After a chance meeting by a mutual friend; two couples- the Manga’s and the Oliver’s are faced with series of events that test the commitment of their relationship and ultimately their marriages.
The short films were shot in Lagos and Calabar and stars Bryan
Okwara, Kiki Omeili, Keira Hewatch, Omowunmi Dada, Mofe Duncan, Omotu
Bissong, Oyekunle Oluwaremi, Chiemele Azurunwa, Judith Audu, Godwin
Osakwe and Belinda Yanga.
On
Friday the 18th of September, Romance is Overrated (RIO) was screened
at Terra Kulture, VI, Lagos, Nigeria. It was a very happy moment for us
as we shot the movie in 2013 so it has been two years coming. The movie
will be premiered at the Genesis Delux Cinema, Palms Shopping Mail,
Lekki, Lagos on the 24th of September to get an invite you can send a
mail to rioscreening@rme.company. The movie featured Mofe Duncan, Keira
Hewatch, Omowunmi Dada, Omotu Bissong, Oyekunle OluwaRemi, Kiki Omeili,
Godwin Osakwe, Chimera Azurunwa, Bryan Okwara, Judith Audu (Moi) and
Belinda Yanga. It was directed and produced by Belinda Yanga.
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