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🧡🇳🇬 really grateful for how the year ended

Leaving Ikorodu in 1999 has been nominated for Short Film of the Year at the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. Big congratulations to the brilliant cast and crew💫🇳🇬

@melbfilmfest 2025 City of Melbourne Grand Prix award winner🙂‍↕️ the award makes us eligible for the Oscar’s which is pretty cool. really grateful to MIFF for this because it’s a testament to the efficacy and importance of our lil story + the huge talents I collaborated with to make it💚

🟠 WATCH NOW: ‘Colby’ in the #linkinbio Colby is young, pregnant and rebelling against feeling stifled by her friends and society’s expectation of her. Writer and Director: Rashida Seriki @rahhh.shida Producer: Kareem Adeshina @kareemadeshina DOP: Jamie Ackryod @jaimeackcroyd Cast: Colby: Precious Mustapha Lace: Percelle Ascott Zora: Nina Jade Jaspaul Jayde: Yasmin Monet Prince

In January, we started the year shooting this film in Lagos. Next month in December, it will have its first first first screening in Lagos. A pure full circle. As it should be. Playing at @s16filmfestival on 11th and 12th December. Visit their page for times🇳🇬 It was a big production so the full credits list is too many characters for this app. That said, I appreciate the many other masters of their skill and kind, helpful souls that contributed to making this film. PRODUCER - TOBI KYEREMATENG DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY - JAIME ACKROYD EDITOR - MARNIE HOLLANDE CASTING DIRECTOR - KEMI LALA AKINDOJU PRODUCTION DESIGNER - ZAINAB ABIMBOLA OLADIPUPO SOUND RECORDIST - PIUS OLAMILEKAN FATOKE HAIR & MAKEUP STYLIST - ADEJOBI ADEBISI HANNAH COSTUME DESIGNER & STYLIST - MOMO HASSAN-ODUKALE COMPOSER - CASSIE KINOSHI SOUND DESIGN & RE-RECORDING MIXER - CHAD ORORORO COLORIST - JASON WALLIS UNIT STILLS PHOTOGRAPHER - WALE ADEBISI ADDITIONAL UNIT STILLS - DAMILARE IMORU 2ND UNIT STILLS - EMILY NKANGA 2ND UNIT PRODUCTION DESIGNER - LOTTIE TOON 2ND UNIT COSTUME DESIGNER - SEYON AMOSU 2ND UNIT HAIR & MAKEUP - AMRITA MUDAN POSTER DESIGN - JAY BENNETT And Tobi, Tomi and my Motunrayo, I’m grateful for your talent, grace and humility throughout the whole thing. For understanding these characters and embodying them with the care and vim💐

Maneater, official selection at @raindancefilmfestival later this month🩸

co-wrote episode 4 with the mastermind of it all Nida Manzoor, airs tomorrow night on @channel4 , also playing on @peacock

Ohun ti ko pa ọ…

deviated from my norm to direct a comedy, horror, action or something. drops on @bbciplayer tomorrow. written by anna brook-mitchell & angela nesi starring @azadi.mp3 & @seraphinabeh DP @jaimeackroyd 1ST ASSISTANT CAMERA Robbie Cairns 2ND ASSISTANT CAMERA Esther Edusi DIT Oliver Hadlow-Martin GRIP Gareth Robinson CAMERA TRAINEE @scarlettmcnulty PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Hannah Harley PRODUCTION SECRETARY Nick Bechman PRODUCTION RUNNERS Reece Pike, Lulu Welford-Carroll 2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Rosie Brown 3RD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Ahmed Amare PRODUCTION DESIGNER Jonathan Wingrove PROP MASTER Marc Everett STANDBY ART DIRECTOR Gideon Palmer STANDBY PROPS Aston Jai GRAPHIC DESIGNER Joe Lynch COSTUME DESIGNER Kathryn Poon COSTUME SUPERVISOR Cristina Benlloch COSTUME STANDBY Adam Baldwin MAKE-UP DESIGNER Chloe Edwards MAKE-UP ARTISTS Jane Emily-Arnold, Rhian Webster SOUND RECORDIST Jeremy Brown BOOM OPERATOR Garie Kan UNIT PHOTOGRAPHER Ikram Ahmed SCRIPT SUPERVISOR Diana Aden COMPOSERS Benji Merrison + Will Slater CASTING DIRECTOR Aisha Bywaters STUNT PERFORMER Michael Byrch STUNT COORDINATOR James Grogan GAFFER Gordon Goodwin ELECTRICIANS Dragos Czinjepolschi, Marton Gosztonyi EDITORS Chris Watson, Robbie Morrison, Hettie Griffiths HALO POST PRODUCER Marie Valentino DUBBING EDITOR Tashar Manek ONLINE EDITOR Ronnie Newman COLOURIST Paul Koren VFX Automatik TITLES Peter Anderson Studios COMMISSIONING EDITOR for BBC Emma Lawson ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER for BBC Emma Barnard LOCATION MANAGER Mandy Edwards PRODUCTION EXECUTIVE Rachel Alabaster PRODUCED BY John Pocock

🪜directed 2nd unit across Rebel Cheer Squad that dropped on @netflix today.

This short film is about a young woman who’s not on letting other people stifle her because she doesn’t move the way they think a pregnant person should. But more than that, and this is at the core of everything I write, Colby is about the power of a moment of kindness.    My best friend died five years ago, and she leaves an oscillating void but it’s the type of thing that’s fleetingly, wholesomely filled by people willing to try to understand me in a particular moment or situation.   This character needed someone to let her talk about herself outside of the societal constraints of a pregnant body – shit was cathartic and just enjoyable. A random did that.    Being me, and I know bare of us are like this, I wish we had more for this project, I wanted more for it but there’s kindness in intrigue, and kindness isn’t typically an overt thing, it’s like the roots running underground, it’s silently indispensable, it’s a point of departure – and I get that from this, so I’m good. I got this from my crew. My g and producer @kareemadeshina embodies this. I’m gassed we got our first project together done. Thank you to @mathieuajan for believing in the idea and dropping us pzzz. It’s screening at London Film Festival over the next couple weeks. Dates and times on the third slide. Link to details in @kareemadeshina ’s bio.