Anthony Nti’s Award Winning Film DA YIE shares a story of two children who are taken on a dangerous road trip
Nominated for BAFTA LA, Student Academy Awards and selected for over 140 film festivals LISTEN
JAN 27, 2021
This stunning African film is an intense day trip in sunny Ghana, that endangers the innocence of two kids. Co-written by the talented emerging duo Anthony Nti and Chingiz Karibekov, DA YIE has garnered four Oscar-qualifying Grand Prize (Leuven Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, Indy Short International Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival) amongst its 25 awards and 140 high profile film festivals selections.
Young Matilda and Prince are taken on a life-changing trip by a stranger. Kids, gangsters and Ghana s coast as you ve never seen them.
DA YIE is a Gem of a Short Film that Begs Reflection
Budding Ghanaian filmmaker, Anthony Nti, explored the topic of innocence as it pertains to our children the and role of adults in protecting both this innocence and their lives, by way of his film his award-winning short film Da Yie.
Child Trafficking on the African Continent
Trafficking: The recruitment, harbouring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude.
A definition by the African Centre for Strategic Studies whose 2019 report states that over 50% of trafficking victims in sub-Saharan Africa are children.