Prior to “Mami Wata,” Obasi wrote the screenplay for the drama “Lionheart,” which was set to become Nigeria’s first-ever Oscar entry in 2019.

In “Mami Wata,” the archetypes are familiar, but they work to make this Nigerian film a distinctly economical masterpiece. Written and directed by C.J. Obasi (also known as Fiery), ...

Shot in transfixing black-and-white by Lílis Soares, director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s Sundance sensation beguiles with family tensions and spiritual dimensions.

PSA dominated the sports card and trading card grading space in 2023, and Wata is hoping to do the same for physical media in 2024. Most known for grading video games, Wata recently made a push to ...

Mami Wata is a multifaceted figure whose personae is as diverse as the diaspora that venerates her. A patroness of beauty, money, and all things that ebb and flow, she’s sometimes depicted as ...

Mami Wata 2023, NR, 107 min. Directed by C.J. Obasi. Starring Evelyne Ily, Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Rita Edochie, Emeka Amakeze, Kelechi Udegbe, Sofiath Sanni, Tim Ebuka ...

Last month, “Mami Wata,” the latest movie by writer-director CJ “Fiery” Obasi, became the first feature by a Nigeria-based filmmaker to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

‘Mami Wata” is the unseen goddess of the sea worshiped by all in an evocatively photographed black-and-white film of the same name that takes place in a coastal West African village whose ...

Mami Wata also has an unmissable Afro-feminist presence in it from how women center the narratives to how the deity herself is discussed and depicted — terrifying, marvelous, powerful.

Mami Wata is told in chapters, with each section introduced by a title card. The action takes off in the third part when a man named Jasper (Emeka Amakeze) washes up on the village’s shore.

Director C.J. Obasi’s Mami Wata, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, is a bold and beautiful mythic parable about true believers questioning their faith in all things.

Last month, “Mami Wata,” the latest movie by writer-director CJ “Fiery” Obasi, became the first feature by a Nigeria-based filmmaker to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.