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ZENITH
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ZENITH
 
Queens Premiere

Director: Ellie Foumbi

United States, 2017, 15min
Format: Digital (screening) - Digital, 2K, Sony F55 (shooting)
Festival Year: 2019
Category: Short Narrative
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Cast:  Ellie Foumbi, Rudy Mungaray, Benton Greene , Michelle Macau
Crew:  Producers: Sola Fasehun - Screenwriters: Ellie Foumbi - Co-Producer: Joseph Mastantuono - Associate Producers: Apoorva Charan, Steven Chua, Christina Chae - Line Producer: Mark Brytoswski - Director of Photagraphy: Charlotte Dupré - Editor: Daniel Gross - Production Designer: Gabriella Moses - Sound: Alistair Farrant
Email:  ef2452columbia.edu

synopsis
When an adopted black Mennonite has an unexpected connection with a migrant worker, she is torn between her faith and her desire to explore the outside world.

director
Ellie Foumbi is an actor/writer/director from Cameroon. She holds an MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in Directing. Her films have screened at several international film festivals, as well as placed in the Student Academy Awards Semifinals and been nominated for an African Movie Academy Award. She was invited to participate in New York Film Festival’s prestigious Artist Academy. She's is a Tribeca Film Institute Alumni and Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow. Ellie made her TV directorial debut on BET’s hip-hop anthology, Tales. She is a finalist of the 2019/2020 Venice Biennale Cinema College with her first feature which will be presented at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in 2020.
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