Independent distributors Music Box Films will release on Blu-ray Djo Munga's Viva Riva! (2010). Earlier this year, the film won six African Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Hoji Fortuna), and Best Supporting Actress (Marlene Longange). Viva Riva! also won Best African Film Award at the MTV Movie Awards.
Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline. Director Djo Tunda Wa Munga's Kinshasa is a seductively vibrant, lawless, fuel-starved sprawl of shantytowns, gated villas, bordellos and nightclubs and Riva is its perfect embodiment.