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About the Film
BRONX PRINCESS follows headstrong 17-year-old teenager Rocky's journey as she leaves behind her mother in New York City to reunite with her father, a chief in Ghana, West Africa. Filmed over the tumultuous summer between high-school and college, BRONX PRINCESS tells Rocky's coming-of-age story. By confronting her immigrant parents' ideas of adulthood, Rocky reconciles her African heritage with her dream of independence.
The story behind the Bronx Princess music: http://www.pbs.org/pov/bronxprincess/soundtrack.php
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Festivals
- Big Sky Film Festival, 2009 – Winner - Best Documentary Short
- AFI/Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Film Festival, 2009
- Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), 2009
- International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), 2008
- True/False Film Festival, 2009
- Rooftop Films Summer Series, New York, NY, 2009
- New York African Film Festival at Lincoln Center, New York, NY, 2009
- UrbanWorld Film Festival, New York 2009
- Chicago International Children's Film Festival, 2009
- Real Life Documentary Festival, Accra, Ghana, 2009
- Festival Dei Popoli, Florence, Italy 2009
- Connecticut Film Festival, 2009
- Pawtucket Film Festival, Rhode Island, 2009
- Dokufest, Prizren, Kosovo, 2009
- Encounters South African Documentary Festival, Capetown, South Africa, 2009
- ViewFinders International Film Festival for Youth, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2009
- African Film Festival National Traveling Series, 2009
Film Info
Documentary Film
HDCAM Digital Video
Length: 38 min
2008
Directed and Produced by Yoni Brook and Musa Syeed
Executive Producer: Marco Williams
BRONX PRINCESS is made possible by:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Cinereach
Fiscal Sponsor: The Hartley Film Foundation
International Broadcast Sales: DR International Sales