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The Agbajowo Collective Talk Toronto Player ‘The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos,’ Drop Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
The film debuts as part of the fest’s Centrepiece program, which touts compelling, global stories.
Written and directed by the diverse seven-member team of budding and established talents, the narrative follows single mother Jawu (Temi Ami-Williams) as she goes head-to-head with the hired guns doling out a brute force-fate to her waterside village, the story based on the 2017 destruction of informal settlements in the fishing community of Otodo Gbame. In a first-look trailer shared exclusively with Variety, the village is introduced through a sweeping aerial shot, framing its sutured structures nestled among waterways, several with bright teal and clay-colored tin roofs that shine effortlessly through thick gray skies. The Agbajowo Collective are Okechukwu Samuel, Ogungbamila Temitope, Bisola Akinmuyiwa, Atinkpo Elijah, Edukpo Tina, James Tayler and Mathew Cerf – film professionals and storytellers, some from the slums and the very community where evictions took place in 2016 and 2017.
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