Born in London to a Nigerian couple, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was given up to a white, middle-class family at just 6 weeks old. When his birth parents decided to take him back to Nigeria at age 8, Akinnuoye-Agbaje wasn’t accepted because he only spoke English.
So Akinnuoye-Agbaje returned to London, where he struggled with his identity. He joined a local skinhead gang and turned to a life of violence before a suicide attempt at age 16 served as a wakeup call. The actor, now 50, went on to graduate law school and discover modeling before landing in Hollywood.
Now as the star of ABC...
So Akinnuoye-Agbaje returned to London, where he struggled with his identity. He joined a local skinhead gang and turned to a life of violence before a suicide attempt at age 16 served as a wakeup call. The actor, now 50, went on to graduate law school and discover modeling before landing in Hollywood.
Now as the star of ABC...
- 10/27/2017
- by Dana Rose Falcone
- PEOPLE.com
Kenya
Films Without Borders is a non-profit which works with African youth from troubled backgrounds to make short films. Supported by Swarovski, in partnership with Nairobi City County Government, Fwb is building a hub in Nairobi within walking distance from the Kibera slums offering free filmmaking and post-production workshops and other film-related activities.
At the Shorts Film Corner, Kenyan Russel Bonguen and his short crime thriller,“Who Murdered Judge Dunia Kafir?” are making the rounds with his feature script. Russel is a graduate of Conservatoire Europeen decriture audiovisuelle, the best screenwriting school in Paris, but has returned to his home in Nairobi where he now lives. He has written “News Diva” a feature script with the potential of becoming a series or franchise. Imagine “Broadcast News” as “Chinatown” wherein the station’s lead anchor and Woman of the Year partners in crime with an ex-cia agent to smuggle blood diamonds from the Congo to Nairobi.
Films Without Borders is a non-profit which works with African youth from troubled backgrounds to make short films. Supported by Swarovski, in partnership with Nairobi City County Government, Fwb is building a hub in Nairobi within walking distance from the Kibera slums offering free filmmaking and post-production workshops and other film-related activities.
At the Shorts Film Corner, Kenyan Russel Bonguen and his short crime thriller,“Who Murdered Judge Dunia Kafir?” are making the rounds with his feature script. Russel is a graduate of Conservatoire Europeen decriture audiovisuelle, the best screenwriting school in Paris, but has returned to his home in Nairobi where he now lives. He has written “News Diva” a feature script with the potential of becoming a series or franchise. Imagine “Broadcast News” as “Chinatown” wherein the station’s lead anchor and Woman of the Year partners in crime with an ex-cia agent to smuggle blood diamonds from the Congo to Nairobi.
- 6/6/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
HanWay Films to introduce coming-of-age drama to Cannes buyers.
Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw will star in Farming, which HanWay Films will introduce to international buyers in Cannes.
Nigerian-British writer Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje makes his feature directorial debut based on his upbringing in a white working class foster family in 1980s Britain, where he became the head of a white skinhead gang.
Production is scheduled to begin in August in the UK and Nigeria. Wme Global represents Us rights.
Farming is based on Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s Annenberg Award-winning screenplay developed with the Sundance Film Institute.
Idris, star of John Singelton’s upcoming FX series Snowfall, will play the lead. Beckinsale will portray his foster mother, a stern, loving, and self-serving woman who takes huge pride in her foster children.
Mbatha-Raw is the teacher who offers the youngster a chance of redemption.
Throughout the 1960s and the 1980s tens of thousands of Nigerian children were farmed out to...
Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw will star in Farming, which HanWay Films will introduce to international buyers in Cannes.
Nigerian-British writer Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje makes his feature directorial debut based on his upbringing in a white working class foster family in 1980s Britain, where he became the head of a white skinhead gang.
Production is scheduled to begin in August in the UK and Nigeria. Wme Global represents Us rights.
Farming is based on Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s Annenberg Award-winning screenplay developed with the Sundance Film Institute.
Idris, star of John Singelton’s upcoming FX series Snowfall, will play the lead. Beckinsale will portray his foster mother, a stern, loving, and self-serving woman who takes huge pride in her foster children.
Mbatha-Raw is the teacher who offers the youngster a chance of redemption.
Throughout the 1960s and the 1980s tens of thousands of Nigerian children were farmed out to...
- 5/5/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Kate Beckinsale, Damson Idris and Gugu Mbatha-Raw have been cast in Farming, the directorial debut from Nigerian-British writer-director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The project is an autobiographical story based on Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s Annenberg award-winning screenplay, which was developed at the Sundance Film Institute, and chronicles his own story growing up fostered by a white working-class family in the UK. HanWay Films is handling international sales for the project and…...
- 5/5/2017
- Deadline
Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and rising star Damson Idris (star of John Singleton’s upcoming FX series Snowfall) will star in Farming, a story based on the life of Nigerian-British actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.
Akinnuoye-Agbaje wrote the script for Farming and will make his directorial debut with the project, which is based on his youth when he was fostered by a white working-class family in the U.K.
From the 1960s through the 1980s, Nigerian children were farmed out to white working-class families in the U.K., and as they were in private foster care, many of them were never registered with social services, making...
Akinnuoye-Agbaje wrote the script for Farming and will make his directorial debut with the project, which is based on his youth when he was fostered by a white working-class family in the U.K.
From the 1960s through the 1980s, Nigerian children were farmed out to white working-class families in the U.K., and as they were in private foster care, many of them were never registered with social services, making...
- 5/5/2017
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
About a year and a half ago, a reading of British actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's feature screenplay titled Farming, took place at the first-ever Sundance London Film Festival - news which was covered on this site. The script, which Akinnuoye-Agbaje developed at the Sundance Labs, is said to be based on his life story, and is described as a true story about "a young African boy's search for love and belonging within a brutal skinhead subculture." I don't know about you, but I'm certainly intrigued by the premise alone. The project might be getting closer to being fully realize, after it was selected by the Sundance...
- 2/25/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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