DR BELLO SET TO PREMIERE IN NEW YORK & LONDON

Dates are Friday, November 23 & 30, 2012.  Venues are African Diaspora International Film Festival 2012, Peter Jay Sharp Thalia Theater at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, 95th Street, New York 10025-6900, USA. While in the UK, it is at the Odeon Cinema, Bugsby Way, Greenwich, SE 10. It is the premiere of one of the biggest and most star studded Nollywood/Hollywood movie so far. It stars the following Genevieve Nnaji, Stephanie Okereke, Vivica A. Fox, Rachel Oniga, Isaiah Washington, Femi Brainard & Jimmy Jean-Louis. 

Film Synopsis

Brilliant Cancer specialist Dr. Michael Durant is emotionally troubled, wrestling with the traumatic loss of his 10 year old daughter from Cancer. Immersing himself in his work in the hospital, away from his wife who blames him for their child’s death, he forms an unlikely bond with a sick, loving, but rambunctious seven year old boy Sam, the son of a rich Jewish couple who are major contributors to the Hospital’s Cancer Research Fund.

Unfortunately, Sam’s health deteriorates drastically, and soon, he slips into a coma, with only a few days to live. Dr. Durant becomes desperate, willing to risk anything to save the child’s life. A surreptitious Nigerian Nurse convinces him to seek the help of Dr. Bello, an uncertified Nigerian Doctor, known in the Brooklyn-African underground as a miracle worker. Dr. Bello, an introvert with a controversial past, secretly visits the child at night and administers a strange African potion, replete with incantations and by the next morning, miraculously, the child begins to recover, the Cancer speeding into remission.

The Hospital Medical Board immediately orders an investigation and soon the secret is revealed and Dr. Durant is suspended. Dr. Bello is arrested and charged with medical malpractice. Dr. Durant soon falls into depression after his wife leaves him. Meanwhile, Dr. Bello has fallen critically ill in jail and can only be saved by the ingestion of the same potion that can only be found in the mysterious “Garden of Life,” nestled on the peak of Nigeria’s sky mountains.

In the US, event starts at 7:30pm prompt, while in the UK

Red Carpet starts- 9PM

Screening starts- 10:30PM

It's a Tony Abulu Production.

GENEVIEVE NNAJI

VIVICA A. FOX

STEPHANIE OKEREKE