Chocolate City [Poster] Theatrical release poster

Directed by Paa Kwesi Gordon

Produced by Desmond K. Nkansah

Written by Paa Kwesi Gordon

Starring Jessica Williams

Richard Asante

Bernard Nyarko

Kwaku Anderson Frimpong

Eric Nti Agyemang

Music Enam

Cinematography Emmanuel K. Kwarteng

Edited by Emmanuel K. Kwarteng

Production Company Infinity House

Release Date 29th September, 2018

Running Time 120 minutes

Country Ghana

Language English

Chocolate City is a Ghanaian drama, love and comedy film written, and directed by Paa Kwesi Gordon. The film stars Jessica Williams, Richard Asante (Kalybos), Bernard Nyarko, Kwaku Anderson Frimpong and Eric Nti Agyemang. Principal photography began in March 2018 in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. Chocolate City is to be released in Ghana on September 29, 2018 at CCB, KNUST-Kumasi. Content of the movie does not include violence, nudity or vulgar language.

Content

Plot

Cast

Production

Music

Release

Plot

Carl loves developing software but studies Biology in the University just to please his parents. He wins a contract for a software development which comes between him and his education, especially his Head of Department. Here is the case the Head of Department's Teaching Assistant, Hetty and daughter, Jane are both in love with Carl. Choosing between Biology and contract; Jane and Hetty become his challenge now. Ken is a womanizer who thinks he can lay every lady in bed until he meets Becca, a waitress. It takes a very long time before Becca accepts Ken as her boyfriend. Finally, he is able to make love to her just to realize later that she is HIV positive. This happens after Ken realizes he is already in love with Becca. Violet is one of the ‘boss chicks’ on campus and everybody thinks she only ‘does’ sugar-daddies. She is beautiful and rich but only hopes to get a boyfriend. She then mistakenly makes love to Dobido, a foolish nerd. The thing is, Violet does not want anyone to know about them but Dobido wants to claim ownership of her body. Chocolate City unveils the tricks and competitions of these students; the thieves, fake friends, masturbators, fake pastors and among others as they try their possible means to overcome their challenges. Chocolate City also captures other challenges students face on campus as they pretend or lie of their backgrounds and lifestyles just to feel accepted by friends and the society.

Cast

Kwaku Anderson Frimpong (Kaf Jnr) as Carl

Richard Asante (Kalybos) as Dobido

Bernard Nyarko as the Lecturer/Head of Department

Eric Nti Agyemang as Ken

DJ Aroma as Himself (Cameo)

Production

The screenplay was written by Paa Kwesi Gordon in 2015 after his tomato picking whiles a student in the university. His main aim of Chocolate City is to inspire the public to achieve their dreams, no matter the challenges they face.

On 18th January, 2018, Desmond K. Nkansah accepted to produce the script into a movie for Infinity House. He was convinced to motivate the public to live a pure and faithful life to the society, to decrease the population of feeling discriminate and tends to impose fake lifestyles just to please the society, educating the society to accept people no matter what they do, what they have or where they come from.

Shooting began on Friday, 30th March, 2018. All scenes were shot on the campus of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. Most of the scenes were shot in Ultimate Hostel and Faculty of Theoritical and Applied Biology. Equipment used in shooting include but not limited to Panasonic Lumix 4K Camera, Phantom 4 Pro 4K drone, slider and a dolly.

DJ Aroma played a cameo in a party scene where Carl introduced his girlfriend, Jane to Betty as his friend which later tricked Jane’s trust to prank him.  

Release

The movie is expected to at least sell 4000 tickets within the first thirty days of release, only for premieres in Ghana in September, 2018. The means of promoting the film include Social Media hype (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Youtube, Snapchat etc.), Bloggers, Radio, Television, Posters, Banners, Stickers, Flyers and Billboards.

The movie would be distributed through cinemas and auditoria including Silverbird Cinemas, Accra and Weija, KNUST, Kumasi, University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), University of Cape of Coast (UCC), University of Education, Winneba, Eusbett Hotel, Sunyani, Takoradi Polytechnic, Koforidua Polytechnic, Accra Polytechnic, Central University College, Accra and Watch N Dine Cinemas, Kumasi. Copyrights would be given to other individuals and companies to premiere in other regions or auditoriums. The movie would also cross the borders to be premiered in Nigeria, United Kingdom and Italy.