Teddy Award Winner Babatunde Apalowo Preps ‘Londoner,’ an Immigrant’s Story of Identity, Belonging and Shattered Dreams
variety.comChristopher Vourlias Nigerian filmmaker Babatunde Apalowo, who won the Teddy Award at last year’s Berlin Film Festival for his gay romance “All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White,” is prepping his next feature. “Londoner,” which won the Red Sea Film Fund Award for best fiction feature at the recently wrapped Durban FilmMart, is the story of a Nigerian man whose life unravels after he arrives in the U.K.
to be reunited with his wife and daughter. Produced by Apalowo for his Polymath Pictures shingle and Sarudzayi Marufu of Cato Street Productions, the film was also selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market earlier this year.
Apalowo’s sophomore feature is a loosely autobiographical film based on the director’s own struggle to “find a home away from home” after moving to the U.K.
two years ago. The Lagos native had fled Nigeria’s dense, crowded, teeming metropolis in the hopes of a fresh start in the U.K.
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