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Rushlake Media Takes World Sales Rights to Nigerian Collective’s ‘Vagabond Queen’ Ahead of Toronto World Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
Based on real-life events in a poor Lagos fishing community, the film is the feature debut of the Nigerian filmmaking group the Agbajowo Collective.
Based on real-life events that took place in 2016 and 2017 during violent, forced evictions from Lagos’ Otodo Gbame fishing community, the film tells the story of Jawu, a young mother from a waterfront slum who stumbles upon a horde of corrupt blood money marked for a real-estate development that threatens her home. The collective is composed of seven directors: James Tayler, Ogungbamila Temitope, Okechukwu Samuel, Mathew Cerf, Edukpo Tina, Bisola Akinmuyiwa and A.S. Elijah. The company’s most recent acquisition, “ After the Long Rains,” the sophomore feature from 23-year-old Kenyan-Swiss filmmaker Damien Hauser, screened at the Red Sea Film Festival in 2023 and Rotterdam and Durban this year.
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