‘12 Years A Slave’ debuts on M-Net
The much acclaimed movie,12 Years a Slave, starring Chiwetel Ejiofo, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson and Brad Pitt makes its debut on M-Net today, Monday, February 16.
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12 Years A Slave is a 2013 period drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 slave narrative memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man, who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and sold into slavery.
The movie has received widespread critical acclaim, and was named the best film of 2013 by several media outlets. It proved to be a box office success, earning over $187 million on a production budget of $20 million.
The film won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Nyong'o, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Ridley. The Best Picture win made McQueen the first black producer ever to have received the award and the first black director to have directed a Best Picture winner.
The film was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts recognised it with the Best Film and the Best Actor award for Ejiofor.
In 1841, Solomon Northup, is a free African-American man working as a violinist, lives with his wife, Anne Hampton, and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Two men, Brown and Hamilton, offer him a two-week job as a musician if he will travel to Washington, D.C., with them. Once there, they drug Northup and deliver him to a slave pen owned by James Burch.
After being enslaved for twelve years, Northup is restored to freedom and returned to his family.
