Cast
Tanya Fear
Hussina Raja
Aki Omoshaybi
Alex Austin
Yrsa Daley-Ward
Yinka Oyewole
Crew
Shola Amoo
Writer & Director
Shola is a graduate of the National Film and Television School. His last short film Touch, starred Tanya Fear (Kick Ass 2) and Alexis Rodney (Guardians Of The Galaxy).
Touch played at The New Voices in Black Cinema Festival 2014 in New York and The London Short Film Festival 2014. It won Shooting People’s Film of The Month competition, chosen by Oscar nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto. Touch also toured the UK as part of The BFI’s Sci-Fi season.
Shola is currently developing features projects, he was selected for full development with Creative England, The BFI and BBC Films under the iFeatures 2014 scheme, for his drama The Last Tree, working with Producer Lee Thomas (Crush, The Road To Guantanamo). He’s also developing a feature project called Dome, which was developed on the British Council’s Script Junction program, in conjunction with The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) and The Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) In Nigeria.
Rienkje Attoh
Producer
Rienkje started her professional career as a broadcast journalist at the BBC in 2006, moving on to produce news and current affairs programmes for TV and Radio. She has also worked as a production journalist for ITN and voice artist for Euronews. Rienkje is a graduate of the National Film and Television School (NFTS). While a student she was one of the three Prince William scholars supported by BAFTA and Warner Bros. and became part of Warner Bros. Creative Talent. She’s produced a number of short films, including fiction, animation and documentary, which have all been screened at a number of notable film festivals. Her short HEN PECKED was selected for the prestigious Cork Film Festival.
Having moved into scripted production, she worked in development with Headstrong Pictures under Head of Drama Myar Craig-Brown and Managing Director John Griffin. She has worked as a Script Editor on Studio4, a project run by Acme Films to develop TV drama with underrepresented Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) talent for Channel 4.
She is currently developing A MAN DIED by Biyi Bandele, and is prepping to shoot the short film CLA’AM by Nathaniel Martello-White with Acme Films, which is being funded by the BBC and Creative England.