Written and directed by Nuotama Bodomo (HBO's Random Acts of Flyness), a distinguished Ghanian New York City-based filmmaker whose other short, Boneshaker (2013) starring Quvenzhane Wallis struck a personal chord for its American Southern timbre with a surrealist shake about a family looking to jar Christian spiritual tradition into Wallis' "problem child". Where Boneshaker meets a visual warmth, Afronauts reverses the temperature with stunning angles and miminal dialogue, making exchanges that are much more paramount to the greater action.
Afronauts is being converted into a feature currently in development.