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When Phiona meets Robert Katende (Oyelowo), a soccer player turned missionary who teaches local children chess, she is captivated. Her mother, Harriet (Nyong’o), is fiercely determined to take care of her family and works tirelessly selling vegetables in the market to make sure her children are fed and have a roof over their heads.
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Throughout the film, she makes stunning use of the brightly colored patterns of traditional African clothing.For 10-year-old Phiona Mutesi (Nalwanga) and her family, life in the impoverished slum of Katwe in Kampala, Uganda, is a constant struggle. Club "Director Mira Nair has a proven ability to find beauty in the most desperate of circumstances, and QUEEN OF KATWE is no different. Weiske Special Effects Supervisor Cordell McQueen Choreographer Colin Lubega Movie Critics A.V. Carls / Lydia Dean Pilcher Director of Photography Sean Bobbit / Sean Bobbitt Editor Barry Alexander Brown Costume Designer Mobolaji Dawodu Hairstylist Melanie Harris Assistant Director Mike Topoozian / Atilla Yucer Sound Blake Leyh Sound Re-Recording Blake Leyh / Dominick Tavella Stunt Coordinator Cordell McQueen Set Decorator Melinda Launspach / Jeanette Scott Post-Production Supervisor Kelley Cribben Music Director Linda Cohen / Zohran Kwame Mamdani Visual Effects Designer Black Ginger Production Manager/UPM Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo / Janine VanAssen / William W. Poster Videos Trailer Queen of Katwe - Official Trailer PlayĬast & Crew Director Mira Nair Star Martin Kabanza / Taryn "Kay" Kyaze / Madina Nalwanga / Lupita Nyong'o / David Oyelowo Co-Star Teslim Animashaun / Maggie Benedict / Anne-Marie Bewulira-Wandera / Joanitta Bewulira-Wandera / Jonathan Diabaig / Isaac Muwawu Gwayambadde / Ivan Jacobo / David Kisakye Kagwa / Irene Kulabako Kakembo / Edgar Kanyike / Sheebah Karungi / Flory Kegbia / Maurice Kirya / Sarah Kisauzi / Ivy Komukyeya / Lele Ledwaba / Nicolas Levesque / Ethan Nazario Lubega / Philip Luswata / Zohran Kwame Mamdani / Jessica Mazzi / Aida Mbowa / Aaron Moloisi / Rori Mortuba / Lezon Mark Mugwanya / Charles Mulekwa / Peter Musibira / Allen Musumba / Ntare Mwine / Rehema Nanfuka / Sarah Nansubuga / Warren Ncube / Nhlahla "Minkey" Ndlovu / Carina Nel / Peter Odeke / Akin Omotoso / Charity Rose Pimer / Okuyo Joel Atiku Prynce / Linda Radebe / Ronald Ssemaganda / Jack Kinobe Sserunkuuma / Esther Tebandeke / Samuel Tebandeke / Richard Tuwangye / Nikita Waligwa / Siyabonga Xaba / Lukenge Yusuf / Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine Screenwriter William Wheeler Source Writer Tim Crothers / Author: Tim Crothers Composer Alex Heffes Executive Producer Troy Buder / Connor Schell / Dan Silver / Will Weiske Producer John B. Produced as a joint venture between Disney and ESPN Films, QUEEN OF KATWE was directed by Mira Nair (MONSOON WEDDING), and was adapted from a nonfiction book by sportswriter Tim Crothers, who became acquainted with Mutesi's story while on assignment for ESPN. Lupita Nyong'o co-stars as Mutesi's mother, who worries that her daughter's dreams of becoming a chess champion are a frivolous distraction from real life. Synopsis This biopic of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi (Madina Nalwanga) traces her journey from the Kampala slum of Katwe, where she is forced to abandon her formal schooling at the age of nine, to the upper echelons of the chess world after she develops an interest in the game at a youth-outreach program run by Robert Katende (David Oyelowo). Title Queen of Katwe Release Year 2016 Running Time 124 min Categories Dramas / Champions / Competitions / Dreams / Poverty Language English Country United States of America Budget $15 million US Box Office $227.0 million Revenue $10.4 million Ratings IMDb 7.4 Rotten Tomatoes® 94% 87% Metacritic 73 The Movie DB 73 % Overview A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.