Soon after co-directing Beyoncé’s Disney+ visual album feature Black Is King, Ghana-born filmmaker Blitz Bazawule is set to direct Warner Bros. musical film, The Color Purple, based on the Tony-winning Broadway musical. According to reports, the feature’s producers Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders, and Quincy Jones caught Bazawule’s movie The Burial Of Kojo on Netflix, and were wowed by …
Filmmaker Blitz Bazawule has signed with CAA. The Ghanaian New York-based visual artist was formerly with Paradigm. Bazawule, who has recorded several Afrobeats records as Blitz the Ambassador, had his feature directorial debut, The Burial of Kojo, acquired by Netflix through Ava DuVernay’s Array Films. Bazawule shot the film in Ghana, where he was born, while also composing and performing …
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