Nair introduces Queen of Katwe and participates in a post-screening conversation on June 5 at TIFF Bell Lightbox, as part of TIFF’s ongoing Books on Film series, hosted by Eleanor Wachtel. Starring newcomer Madina Nalwanga, who was discovered in a community dance troupe performing for tourists at a Kampala hotel, Nair’s dramatization of Phiona’s story sports a $15 million budget, an all-African cast featuring many children from Katwe’s neighbouring communities (even the film’s Hollywood co-stars, Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o - who was once an intern for Nair - boast African heritage), and a woman of colour behind the camera - which, as Nair noted in an interview with Wired, makes it “a radical film for Disney in many ways.” The film is inspiring and family-friendly, but doesn’t shy away from the grim realities of Phiona’s origins and the community from which she came as Nair says, the film shows “beauty and barbarity side by side.”
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Opportunity struck when missionary Robert Katende taught Phiona chess at an afterschool program she went on to become one of Uganda’s first female professional players, representing her country at four Olympiads.
After her father died of AIDS when she was eight, Phiona and her mother began selling maize on the streets to support themselves.
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Premiered at TIFF in 2016, Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe tells the true story of 10-year-old chess champion Phiona Mutesi, who learned how to play the game in Katwe, the largest slum in Kampala, Uganda.
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