Afrobeats star Burna Boy is making a unexpected move into filmmaking. Black Mic Mac, a content company focusing in film and TV content by African and Middle Eastern talent and producers, announced Burna Boy will executive produce their upcoming thriller, “3 Cold Dishes.”
Directed by Asurf Oluseyi and written by Tomi Adesina, “3 Cold Dishes” is a story set across Nigeria, Rep. of Benin,
and Côte d’Ivoire. The film follows three teenagers, victims of sex
trafficking, who reunite thirteen years later to plot their revenge. Spoken in
French, Yoruba, and English, “3 Cold Dishes” is a co-production between Black
Mic Mac, Ifind, Alma Prods., Asurf Films and Martian Network. Burna Boy will
executive produce through Spaceship Films, the company he co-founded with his
mother, Bose
Ogulu.
In a press statement on Variety, Asurf describes “3
Cold Dishes” as a testament to the character’s strength and a groundbreaking
pan-African film. He emphasises the dedication required, stating it “took blood
and sweat to get it to this stage.”
The cast includes top Nollywood actors like Osas Ighodaro, Wale Ojo, Femi Jacobs, Ruby Akubueze, Brutus Richards, and Greg Ojefua, alongside some Ivorian and Senegalese actors. The star-studded soundtrack may include Angelique Kidjo, Burna Boy, Asa, Tems, Brymo, Johnny Drille, and Ayra Starr.
Besides being a lead actor in the film, Osas
Ighodaro also holds a co-executive producer credit on “3 Cold Dishes”
This
collaboration with Burna Boy is just one of several projects on Black Mic Mac’s
slate. South African filmmaker Mandla
Dube is
creating “The Devil Inside,” a detective story set
against a backdrop of child abductions and Nigerian director Ishaya Bako is producing “The
Three Rascals,” a Nigerian adaptation of the comedic “Les Trois Lascars.”
The
lineup also includes “La
Sape,”
a documentary about a young fashion designer by Congolese filmmaker Jean Luc Herbulot, and “Apophenia,” a Johannesburg-based
action movie by writer-director Loukman
Ali.
“I’m so proud to work with so many different filmmakers all over the continent, and to continue to try to discover talent who want to entertain the world,” said Pape Boye, the founder of Black Mic Mac.
