Amma Asante

  • EntertainmentVariety

    Amandla Stenberg Defends Her Upcoming Controversial Holocaust Film ‘Where Hands Touch’

    Amandla Stenberg’s upcoming film “Where Hands Touch,” which is set during the Holocaust, has raised many eyebrows ahead of its release. The romantic period piece from filmmaker Amma Asante revolves around the romance between two German teenagers — Stenberg as a biracial young woman coming of age during the time of the Holocaust and George […]

  • NewsDeadline

    Amma Asante To Direct Drama Thriller ‘The Billion Dollar Spy’ For Walden Media

    <strong>EXCLUSIVE:</strong> Amma Asante has been set to direct the upcoming film adaptation of David E. Hoffman's drama thriller  <em>The Billion Dollar Spy </em>for Walden Media and Weed Road Pictures. Asante is a British writer-director whose  <em>A United Kingdom</em> (starring David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike) won critical kudos both here and abroad. <em>The Billion Dollar Spy </em>is the true story of a man who became the Pentagon's most valuable spy during the last years of the Cold War. Desp

  • NewsYahoo Movies UK

    IWD 2017: A United Kingdom director Amma Asante shares inspirational 'Be Bold For Change' advice

    Amma Asante is one of the most exciting directors working in the British film industry right now. The former ‘Grange Hill’ star made her feature debut in 2004 with the critically-acclaimed ‘A Way of Life’, which she recently followed up with ‘Belle’ in 2013, and 2016’s ‘A United Kingdom’ which arrives on Blu-ray and DVD 20 March.

  • NewsYahoo Movies UK

    A United Kingdom: David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star in this exclusive new clip

    Amma Asante’s stirring new drama ‘A United Kingdom’ hits cinemas on Friday 25 November, and to celebrate we’ve got an exclusive new clip that showcases one of the film’s key moments.