Out / Side of Time
Synopsis
Official Selection BlackStar Film Festival 2022
Details
- Year
- 2021
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running time
- 4 min 55 sec
- Director
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Jenn Nkiru
- Producer
- Rachel Watanabe-Batton
- Executive Producer
- Jenn Nkiru, Mishka Brown, Nanette Nelms
- Editor
- Kit Wells
- Director of Photography
- Pierce Robinson
- Production Designer
- Toni Barton
- Sound
- Peter Adjaye
- Principal cast
- Adepero Oduye and Abiodun Oyewole. With Zainab Jah, Emir Filz, Avery Magras, Adyan Copes, Apryl Pinkett, Nia Madison Thompson
- Costume Designer
- David F. Zambrana
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
A co-production of MOTHERSHIP, Ummah Chroma Creative Partners and Iconoclast
MOTHERSHIP
Somerset HouseSomerset House Studios — Studio M13
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
Sales Company
MOTHERSHIP
Somerset HouseSomerset House Studios — Studio M13
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
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