Chineze Anyaene Abonyi

Biography

Chineze Anyaene is a filmmaker with a passion and drive for telling stories with thorough cinematic interpretation benchmarked on the acclaimed international technical standard. She is the founder/CEO of Xandria Productions, a fully integrated studio that specializes in the production, acquisition, marketing, and distribution of theatrical motion pictures within Africa and the international film market. Xandria Productions' feature film debut "Ije: The Journey" in 2010 was produced and directed by Chineze Anyaene starring Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and Genevieve Nnaji with a production sponsorship from Kodak. Ije tells the story of two Nigerian sisters, Chioma and Anya, and how Chioma travels to the US to help save her sister from being convicted of murder. The critically acclaimed picture was shot in Nigeria and the United States as the first feature film to be made by a student of the New York Film Academy; "Ije: The Journey" traveled around film festivals across the globe, won prestigious awards, and then became a Nigerian box office hit and instant classic as well as contributed to the revolution of Nigerian cinema. The money spent on producing Ije is up to 2.5 million dollars.

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