Project Detail

It's The Blackness

Name: It's The Blackness
Director: Hakeem Kae-Kazim
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 2026
Duration: 130 min

A family sitting around a dinner table with food, sharing a meal in a warmly lit dining room. One man is embracing a smiling woman dressed in blue while the children look on.

Synopsis

Eniola Baba-Lola and Jordan Dante - two brilliant young Black graduates with first-class master’s degrees in business - should be on the fast track to six-figure salaries and global success. Instead, they're hitting closed doors at every turn, even from their best friend’s father, the powerful tycoon Sir John Fenton. With job rejections piling up, dreams of becoming footballers, barbers, or even rappers fizzle fast - especially after a sharp warning from Eniola’s no-nonsense mother.
As the pressure mounts, Eniola discovers his girlfriend Monica is pregnant, while Jordan faces a family crisis in Jamaica, a brother veering towards gang life, and an expiring visa that could lead to deportation. With time running out, the friends take a bold leap - starting a business of their own. But with everything on the line, will their gamble pay off - or break them completely?

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Details

Year: 2026
Type of project: Features
Running time: 130 min
Format: 6k Digital Format
Director: Hakeem Kae-Kazim 1st Feature
Producer: Dapo Oshiyemi
Executive Producer: Jezz Vernon
Editor: Arthur Harrison
Screenwriter: Dapo Oshiyemi
Director of Photography: Violetta D’Agata
Production Designer: Alessandra De Palma
Sound: Michael Powell
Composer: Oluremi Okunlola (AKA Ibejii)
Principal cast: Daniel Davids, Matthew James Morrison, Dolapo Oni, Kalu Ikeagwu, Kierath Jandoo
Associate Producer: Dipo Abdul Osiyemi

Genre

Comedy Drama Romance

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Talking Drum Entertainment

Info@talkingdrum-entertainment.com

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