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THE WOMAN KING (2022) – AFI Movie Club

Featuring two recipients of the AFI Honorary Degree – director Gina Prince-Bythewood and star Viola Davis – and shot by AFI Alum Polly Morgan (AFI Class of 2010), THE WOMAN KING (2022) was honored in the year of its release with an AFI AWARD, recognizing it as one of the most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image for that year. According to the official rationale, “THE WOMAN KING rules! All hail Gina Prince-Bythewood, who delivers a rousing epic as empowering as it is enlightening. And all bow to the warrior that is Viola Davis, whose performance is royal, resplendent and ranks among the year’s finest. Here she reigns over a story of the heroic Agojie, commanding audiences to look at history anew in a tale of prodigious bravery embodied by the fearless performances of Thuso Mbedu and Lashana Lynch.”