Kamsi (2018) was screened on the 2nd day of The Nollywood Travel Film Festival at Melkweg Cinema in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on Friday 6 October, 2023.

In the movie, loving father, Dozie Nnamani (Wole Ojo), deals with the struggle of being a single parent after his wife passed away. One year after the loss, Dozie and his 8-year-old daughter Kamsi fall victim to a violent crime. This incident puts Kamsi in a very precarious situation, needing surgery or even amputation. Raising money for the surgery becomes an uphill task for Dozie, who spent his life savings on his sick wife. Dozie, now forced to extreme measures, he is lured into a notorious gang whose leader believes everybody is disposable. Dozie must not only try to stay one step ahead of gang leader Nicholas Katanga (Sam Dede) and the police, but also to not allow violence to take over him.

Uzodinma Okpechi directed the movie. The main casts were Wole Ojo, Sam Dede, Timini Egbuson, Kiki Omeili, Ben Lugo Touitou and Bimbo Ademoye.

Uzodinma Okpechi is a filmmaker and has 25 years of experience in filmmaking, creating music videos, documentaries and TV productions. He started off as a music video director. Uzodinma attended had attended a MasterClass in Film Production at the Colorado Film School in Denver, U.S.A. in March 2014. 

Uzodinma Okpechi

The post-production of Kamsi was completed in 2022. The movie has also been screened at various festivals. According to Uzodinma, Kamsi has won awards in all the festivals that it was screened before it was screened at NTFF 2023.

Below is the Q&A session with Uzodinma Okpechi.

The Nollywood Travel Film Festival is Nigeria’s biggest and foremost travel festival poised to take Nigerian cinema across international borders, promoting film made by Nigerians living all over the world, giving filmmakers and film lovers the platform to interact, network, and discover a new market while exposing the existing markets to a world of potential to invest in.

Launched in Toronto in 2017, the Nollywood Travel Film Festival has visited several cities including Atlanta, New York, Toronto, Hamburg, Berlin, London, and Glasgow and Oslo while it currently seeks to travel to wider regions, taking actors, producers, directors, and storytellers to the host country, exposing them and their work to new opportunities, trade deals, and financing which gives them the leverage to contribute profitably, further push the barriers of Nigerian filmmaking, and tell more stories.