EXCLUSIVE: M88 has signed Nigerian American filmmaker Walé Oyéjidé, on the heels of his first narrative characteristic, Bravo, Burkina!‘s world premiere within the NEXT part of the 2023 Sundance Movie Pageant.
The movie written, directed and exec produced by Oyéjidé tells the story of a Burkinabé boy who flees his village and migrates to Italy. When later disillusioned by heartbreak, and haunted by reminiscences of residence, he travels by way of time in hope of regaining all he has misplaced. Pic premiered in Park Metropolis, UT on January 23 and was nominated for the NEXT Innovator Award.
Oyéjidé beforehand helmed the documentary brief After Migration: Calabria, which is at present obtainable to stream on The Criterion Channel. Subsequent up is the characteristic Chiaroscuro, which went by way of final 12 months’s Sundance lab and will likely be packaged by M88.
Oyéjidé is a Sundance Characteristic Movie Program fellow, in addition to a Nationwide Geographic explorer, TED fellow, Open Society Foundations fellow, and Google Picture Fairness fellow. He’s additionally identified for his work as a designer, author, speaker, photographer, musician and lawyer, having employed his vogue design as a automobile to have a good time the views of marginalized populations. Oyéjidé’s work in that area has beforehand been displayed in each Marvel’s Black Panther and Coming 2 America.
Former WME Companion Phillip Solar and Macro Founder & CEO Charles D. King launched M88 in 2020, with an eye fixed towards supporting the work of the subsequent technology of artists and cultural leaders. Solar leads the agency, representing storytellers, actors, writers and multi-hyphenates, with Companions Oronde Garrett and Gaby Mena.
