The latest film from Indian-American director Mira Nair, responsible for the critically acclaimed “Salaam Bombay!” and Golden Lion-winning “Monsoon Wedding,” “Queen of Katwe” is a joint effort between ...

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Meet Phiona. She is an international chess champion who grew up in a slum in Uganda. Phiona Mutesi's inspiring true story will play out on the big screen in Disney's Queen of Katwe, starring Lupita ...

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QUEEN OF KATWE A movie about that crazy newfangled game all the kids are playing. There’s a not insignificant legacy of terrible movies about poor brown kids being taught out of poverty by godly white ...

KATWE, Uganda (AP) — In a two-room shack in the heart of a Kampala slum, a barefoot 5-year-old boy is being taught how to move his pawns. He is one of scores of Ugandan children following in the ...

"Queen of Katwe" stars David Oyelowo (left) and Madina Nalwanga (right). Tales of diamonds in the rough are as old as stories themselves, but when done well, they challenge our preconceptions and ...

She's known as the "Chess Queen of Africa". The new movie, "Queen of Katwe" is the true life story of Ugandan native, Phiona Mutesi, that escaped poverty by becoming a world renowned chess player.

Phiona Mutesi, a famed Uganadan chess player, was first introduced to the public by Tim Crothers’ 2012 book The Queen of Katwe, which was later adapted into a Disney movie starring Madina Nalwanga as ...