One Night in Vegas is a 2013 Nigerian comedy drama film directed by John Uche. It stars Jimmy Jean-Louis, John Dumelo, Yvonne Nelson, Sarodj Bertin, Van Vicker, Michael Blackson and Koby Maxwell. The film focuses on a Ghanaian couple who attempt to better their relationship by taking a trip to Las Vegas. The film was created by the same team that produced Paparazzi: Eye in the Dark in 2011. Produced on a low six-figure budget and filmed over the course of 19 days, the film has been noted in the Nollywood USA market as poised to raise the bar of African films by utilizing a more western approach to production quality and standards. It notably employed the experience of an American filmmaker (Tim "Black Magic Tim" Wilson) who served as cinematographer and editor. The film's official release in Ghana had one of the largest turnouts in the history of Silverbird Theater at Accra Mall. The film has been screened at the United Nations in New York City, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., the Pan African Film Festival, Dublin Ireland, Haiti, Nigeria (on July 18, 2014), Maryland, Virginia, California, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Sierra Leone. This film was written by Hollywood screenwriter and actor B.J. Winfrey, an Atlanta, Georgia native, whose credits include Army Wives, Sabotage (with Arnold Schwarzenegger), and Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots, and who in 2014 became the first American to win the Nigerian and African Film Critics Award (NAFCA) for the...