SYNOPSIS
Oscar winner Kim Basinger and Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke are reunited in this wrenching account of Americans caught up in the violence of Nigeria’s petroleum-rich Niger Delta region. As a small community struggles to survive in a land slow-poisoned by decades of oil spills and incessant gas flares, the young western-educated Ebiere, touchingly portrayed by Mbong Amata, becomes the voice of her people against the Western Oil Corporation, and the government that serves as its accomplice.
After a gasoline explosion kills hundreds from her town, Ebiere’s pleas for justice and compensation seem to find sympathetic ears. But when the CEO of Western Oil (Rourke) tries to make the problem go away by throwing money at it, the community is soon torn apart by personal interests. As Ebiere passionately makes her case for non-violent resistance, the men around her, led by her lover Dede, are drawn into a bloody struggle with an army now turned against its own people.
Ebiere tries to end the violence by giving the authorities what they want most: her. But her show trial instead leads the rebels to America, where they hope a kidnapping will bring Ebiere’s plight to the world’s attention.
Acclaimed Nigerian director Jeta Amata turns an incisive eye on the collusion of corporate money and crooked politics — and all the broken hearts and sacrificed lives caught in the middle.
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Cast
Mbong Amata
as Ebiere Perime
A Nigerian woman with integrity beyond her years. Ebiere still believes that change is possible, in spite of the loss of her family and decades of tragic environmental and human devastation at the hands of Western Oil. Now she only has two choices: to stand by and watch her people struggle, or to fight for what she believes in.
Mickey Rourke
as Tom Husdon
A powerful and eccentric CEO of Western Oil – who will stop at nothing to achieve the bottom line, even if innocent lives are lost in the process. With the Nigerian government on his side, nothing can stop his greed and human disregard.
Hakeem Kae-Kazim
as Dede
A strong-willed Nigerian man who has lost any hope of achieving peaceful resolution between his people and the unregulated oil companies who have destroyed them. Pushed over the edge by the loss of his family, he decides to fight back as a powerful militant leader convinced that violence is the only answer.
Kim Basinger
as Kristy
While interviewing the leader of a dangerous militant group, Kristy, a renowned journalist, finds herself in the middle of one of the most meticulously planned hostage take-overs in US history. Repercussions reach all the way to the President of the United States as she is forced to report along side the danger.
Enyinna Nwigwe
as Tamuno
A Nigerian police officer who struggles to see his own people suffer while he is under the protection of the corrupt nigerian government, soon realizing that he has chosen the wrong side, he attempts to make amends with his people and himself.
Sara Wayne Callies
as Kate
A compassionate journalist throws her safety aside when she discovers the truth – that global oil giants will spare no expense to maintain the flow of billions of dollars into their pockets. And she may have found the Nigerian woman who could change everything.
Anne Heche
as Barbara
A seasoned FBI agent must take control of a hostage situation in Downtown L.A. The angry Nigerian militants on a mission, armed with C-4 and AK-47′s may prove to be the challenge of her career.
Vivica A Fox
as Angela
A high powered American government official suddenly finds herself negotiating a hostage situation in Downtown L.A. where her actions will decide the fate of many innocent lives.
Jeta Amata
Director
Director Jeta Amata aspires to bring African culture to the world through filmmaking. By bringing authentic stories to life that focus the spotlight on situations in Africa, which the western media tends to ignore.
Black November an epic feature exposing the environmental devastation and corruption surrounding the billion-dollar oil industry in Nigeria.
Black November © 2012 Wells & Jeta Entertainment