Hanging out with Filmmaker Pascal Atuma on the set of 'My American Nurse II'

About a month ago I had sat over lunch with Pascal Atuma and his attorney at Veronica's Kitchen, in Inglewood, California. We had met to discuss on a series that would probably run about five parts within the next couple of years.

The first part of the series has just been released on DVD and Pascal had brought along with him a copy for me, and talks on part II had commenced as we sat on the corner doing justice to the orishirishi soup and pounded yam at Veronica. I first watched the movie at its premiere on the Crenshaw thoroughfare at Magic Theaters.

Though the movie started shooting about a week ago, Pascal called me to visit the set at Calabar Finger-Licks Restaurant in Gardena last Sunday. Quite busy with the Sunday activities, the African Marketplace Festival and the carnivals of African drums at Leimert Park's "Black Township," I still gave it a shot and popped up at Calabar Finger-Licks Restaurant where the actors, crews and extras milled around the set.

Pascal had told me the second part will be coming up much better when it's released sometime next year. The stars on the set included Hakeem Kae-Kazim and Aloma Wright.

More jabs to come on the set as Shehu's (Pascal Atuma) wife tries to gain ground in the US with all sorts of uncertainties coupled with domestic violence calls.