NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. His new movie Farming is about a Nigerian boy who joined a British white supremacist group.
Imagine watching This is England, but with all the humour and tenderness sucked out and replaced with more savagery, more brutality and even more unremitting bleakness. That’s where we are with Farming,
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Kate Beckinsale, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Damson Idris at an event for Farming (2018)
The film is Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s feature debut.
Lionsgate UK has acquired UK rights to writer and director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s autobiographical feature debut Farming, which debuted at Toronto. The film follows Enitan (Damson Idris), a young Nigerian ‘farmed out’ by
While there are many reasons for an artist to strike out with their feature directorial debut, Farming’s Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje had one that was extremely personal and expressly his own. “The genesis was literally
Becoming a series-regular on a show as storied as Lost is a lofty achievement for any actor. But for Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, the path that brought him there—and to films like Suicide Squad and Thor: The Dark
History had a strange way of catching up with Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who wrote the autobiographical story that would eventually become the screenplay for his directorial debut, “Farming,” 16 years ago.
Becoming a series-regular on a show as storied as Lost is a lofty achievement for any actor. But for Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, the path that brought him there—and to films like Suicide Squad and Thor: The Dark
