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FilmHouse Live Read + Reception: Karolina and Udochi Dance in the Woods at Dusk!

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Join us for a staged reading of Osinachi Ibe’s feature script, Karolina and Udochi Dance in the Woods at Dusk!. Karolina and Udochi Dance in the Woods at Dusk! is […]
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Join us for a staged reading of Osinachi Ibe’s feature script, Karolina and Udochi Dance in the Woods at Dusk!.

Karolina and Udochi Dance in the Woods at Dusk! is a surreal, romantic drama about two childhood best friends who fall in love with each other during their first summer apart. On the eve of Udochi’s summer trip to Nigeria, lifelong best friends, 19-year-old Karolina and 18-year-old Udochi, share an intimate moment that reveals a deeper longing between them. As their feelings intensify, they fear risking their friendship by exploring their growing passion. Now, 8,000 miles apart, they experience a romantic awakening that changes them forever.

The project is the recipient of the 2024 SFFILM Rainin Grant and the Sundance Uprise Grant Fund. It was developed in SFFILM’s FilmHouse Residency and Headlands Centers for the Arts’s Artist in Residence program.

The table read will feature: Ashante Ford, Emmanuel Nwandu, Tajianna Okechukwu, and Patrice Binaisa. Producers Megan Carlson and Thomas Ethan Harris will be in attendance.

Following the reading there will be a reception featuring authentic Nigerian food and music!

Biographies

Director Osinachi Ibe

Osinachi Ibe is a Nigerian-American writer, filmmaker, and film programmer from the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates intimate, feminine portraits that meditate on the complexities of the spirit, heart, and the divine. Her work is expressive and incorporates elements of narrative and experimental cinema, and poetry. Osinachi earned her MFA in Film Directing from Chapman University where she received a graduate fellowship. She is an alum of the 2022 Sundance Uprise Grant Fund, Headlands Center for the Arts’ 2023 Artist in Residence program, and SFFILM’s 2023 & 2024 FilmHouse Residencies. She was just awarded SFFILM’s 2024 Rainin Grant for her debut feature film, Karolina and Udochi Dance in the Woods at Dusk!.

Osinachi currently manages and produces Mind the Gap, Mill Valley Film Festival’s acclaimed gender equity and inclusion program, and is a programmer for the festival.