Kojo McPherson wins Immersion prize for Adero at ttff

Kojo McPherson collecting his award for best project idea and pitch for a feature film at the trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff photo)

Guyanese filmmaker Kojo McPherson has won the prize for best project idea and pitch for a feature film at the RBC Focus: Filmmakers’ Immersion at the trinidad+ tobago film festival (ttff).

Kojo won top honours and TT$20,000, when he pitched his idea to a jury at the end of the fifth annual ttff last month in Trinidad.

Kojo’s pitch was for a film titled Adero, in the genre of magic realism. He revealed that it follows “Adero, a brooding 30-odd year old corporate drone, on a quest to find his true identity. His journey – through his dreams as much as in the physical world – will threaten his