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  • Rocky Otoo offers advice to first-generation Americans who are heading to college.

    Rocky Otoo offers advice to first-generation Americans who are heading to college.

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  • Rocky Otoo, 17, center, stands with her father, Nii Adjedu, and her mother

    Rocky Otoo, 17, center, stands with her father, Nii Adjedu, and her mother "Auntie" Yaa Otoo

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The Film

Rocky Otoo is the Bronx-bred teenage daughter of Ghanaian parents, and she's no pushover. She is a sassy high-achiever bound for college. With freedom in sight, Rocky rebels against her mother's rules. When their relationship reaches a breaking point, Rocky flees to her father, a chief in Ghana. What follows is captured in Bronx Princess, a tumultuous coming-of-age story set in a homeland both familiar and strange. Her precocious — and very American — ideas of a successful, independent life conflict with her father's traditional African values. Reconciling her dual legacies becomes an unexpected chapter in this unforgettable young woman's education.

The Filmmakers

  1. Yoni BrookProducer/Director
  2. Musa SyeedProducer/Director