Monrovia- This year’s Thanksgiving Day national holiday in Liberia this Thursday, November 5, 2019 will be punctuated be a standard comic family drama titled, “Worlds Apart”.
Premiered by Vision International Production (VIP), this family drama will be held at Millennium Guest House in the Congo Town suburb of the Liberian capital.
Organizers say tickets are on sale at African Methodist Episcopal University (AMEU) Finance Office, Camp Johnson Road and Philadelphia Central Church; Congo Town; with prices ranging from US$10, to US$20. The colorful event will include live interviews on the Red Carpet, Photo op, raffle draw and full viewing of the film.
The film will be shown at five different time on the holiday. At 10am for US$10, 12 noon for US$15, 2pm for US$15, 4pm for US$20 and 6pm for US$20. According to Cosme R. Pulano, Jr., this was done to ensure that those attending are seated apart and health protocols are obeyed.
“As our way of giving back to our fans and supporters, we have also included a raffle draw where those attending will stand the chance to win rice cooker, ice box and 32-inch tv, amongst others.
The film, based on a real event, is a story of love and the wrong choices people sometimes make in relationships. Murphy, an older man who has lived a promiscuous life, decides to leave his woman of over 10 years for a younger girl who he claims will respect, honor, love and obey him; but unsurmountable problems await him.
He arranges with his uncle in the village to get a young girl for him, who is only nineteen years-old and “a young chicken,” as he describes her. To ensure her sustainability and livelihood, Murphy withdraws all of his saving and purchases things before his young wife arrival.
‘Worlds Apart,’ a movie about resentment, love and regrets, is full of twists and turns that will keep you glued to your seat asking “What’s next?” Critically, it is a film with amazing suspense-filled storylines, which starts with Murphy’s earlier relationship break down, that leads to him getting a second wife he barely knows anything about.
The movie is directed by Liberian emerging filmmaker – movie writer, actor and director, Cosme R. Pulano Jr, Vision International Production’s Executive Director. He intoned that, like their projects before now, the movie provides education and entertainment for generations.
Worlds Apart is the third film by VIP. The first, ‘Decisions,’ was a blockbuster, which was the nation highest gross film on open day, in April 2017. The production company, in 2019, premiered ‘Hells Gate’. “It is the first-ever future film shot in Liberia about the deadly Ebola Virus Disease outbreak and goes beyond the makings of independent movies,” he stated.
According to CNN “Inside Africa Lollywood”, this has placed an emerging film industry on an enviable upward trajectory toward unending development and growth, which will expose it to new markets, producers and directors. Vision International Production (VIP) in collaboration with Messiah Investment completed the film’s principal photography in June, 2019.