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Sausage Rolls & Jollof Rice

A young female mixed-race director stares with shock and anger at a young Black male actor

Synopsis

On a chaotic London film set, tensions simmer between a rising Black actor, a frustrated sound man, and an ambitious young director. Between takes, cultural clashes, class anxieties, and hidden insecurities bubble to the surface - all over a table of sausage rolls and jollof rice.
A sharp, darkly comic meta-film exploring identity, tokenism, and the politics of ‘representation’ in the British film industry. As the line between the film-within-the-film and reality begins to blur, each character is forced to confront who really gets to tell their story - and what’s left on the cutting-room floor when ‘diversity’ becomes performance, and identity itself becomes the role.

Details

Year
2026
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
18 min 34 sec
Director
Benjamin Turner
Producer
Benjamin Turner
Editor
Benjamin Turner
Screenwriter
Benjamin Turner
Director of Photography
Tee Visuals
Sound
Ryan Walker
Principal cast
Tyrelle Boyce, Vidal Logie, Rita Bernard-Shaw, Tate Boyce, Toni Olabanji, Tresor Roland, Andy Bewley
Line Producer
Ria Thomas

Genre

Comedy Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

The Spit Game UK

Benjamin Turner

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