From: Africa DirectA grandmother in Jos, Nigeria goes from breaking rocks for a residing to rocking social media together with her tune.Hamsatu Izang sings out as she hammers rocks into small gravel items for the development trade.
Singing brings her pleasure and peace, she says, amid this tough handbook labour. However when a neighborhood music producer hears her tune, her life takes a stunning flip and a complete new world opens up.
This movie follows Mama Hamsatu as she navigates two very totally different realities, her work as a lifelong stone crusher and a brand new function as a singing star, within the hope that her new success may carry lasting change.
Dorcas Sheffy Bello is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker from Jos, Nigeria. She is the founding father of Unzipped Tales Africa, and has received awards for scriptwriting and reporting. Her documentary on polio, Not All Darkness, has received many regional plaudits.