Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "My Fathers Shadow" (Credit: Cannes Film Festival) Akinola Davies Jr. feels, as many do, that he grew up in the shadow of his ...
The British Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr. and his brother Wale were both toddlers when their father died. As adults, they could hardly remember him. Then Wale had an idea for movie. What if, by ...
EXCLUSIVE: Element Pictures’ Rachel Dargavel, producer of Akinola Davies’s My Father’s Shadow, Nigeria’s first Cannes entry, tells Deadline that she and the filmmaker are in very early stages of ...
Following its Cannes premiere earlier this year, My Father’s Shadow has released the first trailer of its semi-autobiographical tale. Premiering Feb. 6 in theaters, via Mubi, the Akinola Davies ...
Nigeria is going to Cannes. In what is understood to be a first in the film festival’s near-80 year history, a movie from Africa’s most populous nation has been chosen as part of the Cannes Film ...
Sopé Dìrísù is struggling to connect, and to protect, his two young sons as the city of Lagos and the country of Nigeria falls apart around them, in the lyrical trailer for Akinola Davies Jr.'s My ...
Akinola Davies Jr. feels, as many do, that he grew up in the shadow of his father. He died when Akinola and his older brother Wale were both very young, almost too young to remember. Growing up in ...
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