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Throwback Wednesday

By |2014-05-28T09:36:43+00:00May 28th, 2014|Poetry, Rant, Thoughts|0 Comments

It really should be throwback Friday, but couldn't wait that long before posting this.  I must also point out that I've exceeded my own expectations, two posts in one week. Hmm. :-) Okay enough silliness. I was digging through my overcrowded storeroom and found a poem a wrote many moons ago which was subsequently published in the first issue of my university's creative writing magazine. What struck me, is the fact that although a decade has gone by since I wrote it, things haven't really changed that much.  It's called Not Black and White.  Let me know what you think.   NOT BLACK AND WHITE by Sade Adeniran The poison of racist politics exploited a highly unusual configuration of ethnic geographic and political factors to gain a tiny grip on the reins of community power... I feel the curdling of my guts Fear stalks me. ... however the threat must [...]

1:33 am 1:33 am

Day 4 in Lagos

By |2013-12-06T01:35:53+00:00December 6th, 2013|Funding trip, Lagos, Thoughts|0 Comments

This morning I woke up earlyish to go to the Lagos short film festival which was billed to start at 9:30am, I was ready on time but unfortunately the driver had a pressing errand to run which means I got there at 10:30 instead. Now I rushed up the stairs thinking, OMG I'm late and I'm going to be walking in at the wrong moment.  Like the time me and my best friend were late for a funeral and we arrived as they were bringing the coffin out of the church. Truly embarrassing moment and that was down to the M3 being closed. Anyway I digress and to cut a long story short, the whole thing didn't start until 12:37pm. I've been away too long and I'm still operating on Western Time. :-)  It's day 4 of my trip and each morning I quail at the enormity of the task ahead, [...]

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Day 3 in Lagos

By |2013-12-04T22:51:46+00:00December 4th, 2013|Film, Funding trip, Lagos, Thoughts|0 Comments

First day I wasn't up at the crack of dawn and managed to sleep till 8am for a change.  A sort of productive day, kicking round ideas on the film industry in Nigeria and how I was going to make Imagine This an enticing prospect for investors to want to put their hands in their pockets. First problem I have is there are no available statistics to show ROI on films made in Nigeria, HOAYS, which could be used as a bench mark has not been released yet so those investors are yet to see any money coming in.  Films like Phone Swap, or Last Flight to Abuja which are still fairly low budget but well made films have no readily available data to use for comparison. It would be interesting to find out how much film revenue is actually generated at the Nigerian box office.  How many Nigerians actually go to [...]

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My Thoughts on the Diversify Conference

By |2016-12-31T02:17:31+00:00November 14th, 2013|Film, Imagine This, Thoughts, Who am I|0 Comments

Today started with me not wanting to get out of bed, because as usual I was up late. I had to get a draft of the script to the lovely Ben, who is sorting out the budget. Anyway I woke up and thought, I have so much work to do, do I really want to go to a conference and listen to people tell me what I already know? But then I thought, but maybe they will have solutions or action points or suggestions on what can be done to improve the diversity of minority groups in the UK film & TV industry.  I've dipped in and out of the media world through the passing years. I started with radio, managed to get one radio play on Radio 4, but then my lovely producer left to have a baby and that was the end of that.  The next play she [...]

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