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Teddy Award Winner Babatunde Apalowo Preps ‘Londoner,’ an Immigrant’s Story of Identity, Belonging and Shattered Dreams
The Nigerian filmmaker's follow-up to 'All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White' follows a man's heartbreaking odyssey to the U.K.
Nigerian filmmaker Babatunde Apalowo, who won the Teddy Award at last year’s Berlin Film Festival for his gay romance “All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White,” is prepping his next feature. “Londoner,” which won the Red Sea Film Fund Award for best fiction feature at the recently wrapped Durban FilmMart, is the story of a Nigerian man whose life unravels after he arrives in the U.K. to be reunited with his wife and daughter. I struggled with it.” It hardly helped matters that he decided to become a filmmaker, a profession that while certainly respected in the home of the booming Nollywood film industry, wasn’t likely to win over parents hoping to raise a lawyer or doctor in a land of overachieving daughters and sons.
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