Posted by | Cyrena Rose
Regina King will star and co-direct/produce the documentary The Story of A Village, alongside L.A. writer/director/journalist Dwayne Johnson-Cochran. King revealed details about the doc, which follows Tiffany Persons, who traced King’s maternal DNA roots back to Sierra Leone, as Persons goes to Sierra Leone to repair a school in a village.
Below is what Regina shared:
It’s about a woman named Tiffany Persons who is a friend of mine that I’ve known for years. About five years ago she traced my mother’s side of DNA, and it went back to West Africa. Specifically, Sierra Leone, Senegal, and Nigeria. So maybe about two weeks after I had gotten those results, Tiffany called me and told me that she was raising money to go back to Africa to repair a school in a village that she found, that was dear to her heart, in Sierra Leone. I felt that it needed to be documented.
So, long story short, I got my shots and got my son his shots and went and talked to his school and took him out of school for a month and we went to Africa and documented it. Since then, it’s just gotten bigger and bigger and all of things that Tiffany’s done since then. She’s built a whole new structure and she’s got running water there, just so many things. Each year she has done more there, so there’s more being added to the documentary. There is something really intriguing about Tiffany and how she has just dedicated her life to this village, Bungoma. It’s pretty amazing to me. And I feel like that blueprint can be applied to any circumstance where you’re investing your time to improve a situation.