Leaving Ikorodu in 1999
Synopsis
Official Selection S16 Film Festival Nigeria 2024
Official Selection BlackStar Film Festival 2025
Official Selection Melbourne International Film Festival 2025
Details
- Year
- 2024
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 17 min 32 sec
- Director
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Rashida Seriki
- Producer
- Tobi Kyeremateng
- Executive Producer
- Aoife Hayes, Amy O'Hara
- Editor
- Marnie Hollande
- Screenwriter
- Rashida Seriki
- Director of Photography
- Jaime Ackroyd
- Production Designer
- Zainab Abimbola Oladipupo
- Sound
- Chad Orororo
- Composer
- Cassie Kinoshi
- Principal cast
- Motunrayo Abiola-Oloke, Tomi Oojo, Tobi Bakre, Sheila Atim
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Supported by FUTURE TAKES a joint initiative from the BFI (awarding National Lottery funding) and Film4
Them Ones Productions
Tobi Kyeremateng85 Great Portland Street
First Floor
London
W1W 7LT
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