Kimberly Elise and Omotola Jalade- Ekeinde Talk ‘Ties That Bind’

The film, Ties That Bind, directed by Leila Djansi, and starring Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Ama K Abebrese, and Kimberly Elise (one of Black Hollywood’s TOP actresses – For Coloured Girls,  Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Set It Off), opens in Nigeria on May 25.

The film received six nominations at the African Movie Academy Awards (2012), and won the award for Best Screenplay.

The film also won Best Diaspora Film (San Diego Black Film Festial), Official Selection to the American Film Institutes New African Films Festival, Official Selection to the Samsung International Womens Film Festival in India, Official Selection to the Pan African film Festival and 9 wins at Ghana movie awards, Ties That Bind is also one of the few independent films sporting a predominantly African Cast that has received major mainstream distribution in Hollywood. Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, and Kimberly Elise have spoken(video below) with Herve Clemont (Celebville 360) about their characters in the movie.

Ties That Bind is a story of three women Adobea (Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde), Buki (Ama K Abebrese) and Theresa (Kimberly Elise). Though the three are from different backgrounds, they are bound together by the shared experience of losing a child. In a destined meeting in a small village in Kroboland, the women journey together to redemption, love, life and forgiveness as they renovate a dilapidated clinic for the villagers.

Watch the interview with Omotola and Kimberly:

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