Take a filmic journey with Alexandra Amon
You can see one of our favorite young Ivorian actresses, Alexandra Amon, in a new Ghanaian feature film, Yvonne Nelson’s Fix Us, which has been picked up by streaming giant Netflix and can now be streamed worldwide on the platform.
Fix Us tells the story of three young women—Naadie (Yvonne Nelson), Chioma (Yvonne Okoro), and Jaya (Alexandra Amon)—who meet at an audition, sharing the common, art-imitating-life dream of becoming well-known actresses. However, when their dreams start coming true, the three women start to realize that they may want more from life than stardom. Fix Us takes its characters, and the viewer, on a journey of faith, destiny, and, above all, friendship.
In addition to the Nelson, Okoro, and Amon, the film stars Prince David Osei, Michelle Attoh, Jessica Williams, Belinda Dzattah, Mofe Duncan, and Tobi Bakre.
Alexandra Amon is not merely an actress with beautiful face—named on a list of Most Influential Africans in 2017, she is also a successful director and producer, with an impressive résumé under her belt. The Paris-born Ivorian moved to New York in 2003, after having graduated from the Pratt Institute Art School, less than ten years later, in 2012, she had founded her own production firm ZIV, producing her first television series, African Chronicles, in 2014.
She has collaborated with acclaimed American photographer and director David LaChapelle, worked as an artistic director in the Ivory Coast, and worked as an actress and director in Nollywood.
In addition to her recent role in Fix Us, which is a must-watch, Amon has produced the Ivorian series 20, 30, 40, which is currently being broadcast via the Ivorian public broadcaster Radiodiffusion-Télévision Ivoirienne (RTI) and will also soon be available to stream online.
You can keep up with Alexandra on Twitter and Instagram—her recent birthday snaps are highly enviable.
By Illona Meyer
