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Bariga Sugar

  • Bariga Sugar
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2017
Format : Short
Running time : 21 (in minutes)

Ese is a reclusive 8 year old girl living in Bariga Sugar - a ghetto brothel in Bariga, Lagos. Her mother Tina is one of Bariga Sugar's working women. 10 year old Jamil and his mother Hanatu move into the brothel, Ese and Jamil begin an unlikely friendship.

A film by Ifeoma Nkiruka CHUKWUOGO

Nigeria, 2017, fiction, 21min, Short | Drama

Stars: Halima Olarewaju, Tunde Azeez, Tina Mba



Country: Nigeria
Language: Creoles and pidgins
Runtime: 21 min
Color: Color (HD)

Produced by
Ifeoma Nkiruka Chukwuogo
Ikenna Edmund Okah

Director: Ifeoma Nkiruka Chukwuogo
Writers: Ifeoma Nkiruka Chukwuogo, Ikenna Edmund Okah

Original Score by Ré Olunuga.
Additional music by Alex Zitto, Inferno.

Cinematography by
Ademola Soares

Film Editing by
Ifeoma Nkiruka Chukwuogo

CAST
Halima Olarewaju... Ese
Tunde Azeez... Jamil
Tina Mba... Madam Sugar
Lucy Ameh... Hanatu
Blessing Samuel... Tina
Gregory Ojefua... Soldier

Release Date: 23 February 2017 (Nigeria)

Budget: NGN 1,700,000 (estimated)

Production Company: Fizzy K Pictures

Partners

  • Kenya : Arterial Network chapter
  • Kenya : Ketebul Music
  • Kenya : Studio Vista Network
  • Kenya : Kuona Trust
  • Kenya : The Theatre Company

With the support of