Soul Diaspora


Soul Diaspora is a 2009 film written and directed by Odera Ozoka. The film receivednominations at the 6th African Movie Academy Awards in 2010 for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best film by an African Filmmaker in Diaspora, and AMAA Achievement in Sound, winning the award for Best film by an African Filmmaker in Diaspora. In addition, the film won the Audience Favorite Award at the 2010 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, USA.

Saidus lifes path brings him to working less than minimum wage at a mechanic shop, forging little by little a friendship with a sixteenyearold AfghaniAmerican, Reza Kristian Steel, the son of the shops friendly owner. Yet, even then, the mysterious Saidu is unable to fully overcome his alienation and loneliness. He soon meets and bonds with a stripper, Latisha Mimi Vasser, after frequenting the same bar.During the film, the audience meets an AfricanAmerican named Tyrone Serge Eustache who may not share Saidus morality, but is confronted with internal troubles. He is embroiled in a seamy love triangle with Saidus encounter, Latisha and another woman, Lori Maggie Maki, whom he has no feelings for but seems unableor rather unwilling to rid himself of. ........

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