In 2014, 276 teenage girls came together for exams in Chibok, Nigeria-by dawn, nearly all had disappeared, and their school was burned to the ground. Jessica, an escapee, shares her haunting account of a friendship violently interrupted by Boko Haram.

A film by Ifunanya Maduka

Nigeria, 2017, Short documentary, 10 mins

Producers: Uzodinma Iweala, Ifunanya Maduka
Co-producers: Victor Okhai, Jennifer Tiexiera
Executive producers: Nnamdi Asomugha, Edward Tyler Nahem, Ann Rubenstein Tisch, Andrew Tisch
Associate producers: Uzoamaka Maduka, Marjon Javadi, Abiola Oke
Senior Color Producer: Andrew McLintock

Director: Ifunanya Maduka
Music by Saul Simon MacWilliams
Cinematography by Victor Okhai
Film Editing by Jennifer Tiexiera
Sound: Pius Fatoke
Consulting editor: Luca Campanale

Thanks
Kaaranja Daniel
Josh Ludmir
Rob Meyer
David Oyelowo
Jessica Oyelowo
Adam Pines
Tony Tagoe
Dehanza Rogers

Very special thanks
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Mateo Prado

Production:
Gombe Road Productions
Iam21 Entertainment




2017 | Sundance Film Festival, USA
* World Premiere / Première Mondiale
* Projection / Screening: Friday 20 January 2017, 6:30 PM, Redstone Cinema 1
* Projection / Screening: Sunday 22 January 2017, 9:00 PM, Broadway Centre Cinema 6
* Projection / Screening: Monday 23 January 2017, 5:30 PM, Yarrow Hotel Theatre
* Projection / Screening: Thrusday 26 January 2017, 9:00 PM, Yarrow Hotel Theatre
http://www.sundance.org/projects/waiting-for-hassana