On the Precipice: The short, dark films of Julius Amedume

This year when I attended the Africa Movie Academy Awards, I rode in the bus from the Port Harcourt airport to Yenagoa seated beside Ghanaian-British filmmaker Julius Amedume. Amedume's short film 'Precipice' had been nominated for the best Diaspora short and his feature film A Goat's Tail had won the best feature award at the 2010 Pan African Film Festival. He told me about his love of suspense films and how he hoped to remake 'Precipice' into a full-length feature. The next night at the award ceremony, he was called up to receive the award for Best Diaspora Short. When after the festival he sent me a DVD of four short films made as part of his MA in Fiction Directing at the U.K.'s National Film and Television School, I realized why 'Precipice' had won.
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