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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje makes movie on finding his identity in foreign land

Written by AaronWeb on October 7, 2019

Leading movie distributor, FilmOne, is set to release Nigerian-British filmmaker, Adewale Akinnuouye-Agbaje’s movie in West Africa.

The movie titled Farming, documents the life of Adewale, who found himself in the British society in the 1960s, being raised by a white family, as he struggled to find his identity.

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The movie which attempts to educate audience on the practice of ‘farming’, a popular practice in Britain in the 1960s to 1980s, where Nigerian parents paid white families to foster their kids as they worked and schooled abroad, focuses on the life of Adewale, who found himself in search of an identity as a black child in a foreign land.

His experiences joining a skinhead gang was highlighted in the movie and Damson Idris acted as Adewale. Other notable actors in the movie include Adewale himself, who played the role of his father and Nigerian star actress, Genevieve Nnaji.

Other stellar cast include: Kate Beckinsale, John Dagleish, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Jaime Winstone. The movie which is already out abroad, won the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film at the 2019 Edinburgh International Film Festival in June and the lead actor, Damson Idris, won award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film at the festival.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje makes movie on finding his identity in foreign land