Freedom Way
2024 Nigerian action drama film directed by Afolabi Olalekan
Freedom Way is a 2024 Nigerian action thriller drama film written and produced by Blessing Uzzi and directed by Afolabi Olalekan in his feature film directorial debut. The film sheds light on some of the pressing issues facing Nigerians, such as rampant corruption, police brutality, political oppression, and economic insecurity and their impact on Nigerian youth. The film premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival in the Discovery section on 7 September 2024. In November the film went on to win the Special Jury Award at the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF).
Synopsis
After years of hard work software developers Themba (Jesse Suntele) and Tayo (Ogranya Jable), launch their highly anticipated venture, Easy Go — a rideshare app that connects Lagos's motorcyclists with customers in the metropolitan area. The elation of the successful launch of their venture turns to despair when confronted with the realities of dealing with unfavorable government laws, rules and regulations, and police brutality.
Cast
Adebowale Adedayo as Abiola
Bimbo Akintola
Jesse Suntele as Themba
Meg Otanwa as Abiola's wife
Femi Jacobs as police cop
Mike Afolarin
Ogranya as Tayo
Teniola Aladese
Taye Arimoro as doctor
Tiwalola Adebola-Walter
Akin Lewis as Mr Ademola
Production
The film was bankrolled by Blessing Uzzi under her production banner Bluhouse Studios. The story was mostly shot and set in Lagos. The filmmakers faced a series of challenges due to budgetary constraints, reshoots and even unexpected recasting—one of the actors signed to the project backed out fearful that his aspirations for a future political career would be hampered due to the film's politically sensitive subject matter.
Theme
Uzzi set out to tell a story that was in part inspired by recent Nigerian headlines, but for structure, looked to Crash, the Oscar-winning 2004 drama about race relations in Los Angeles, and to Ava DuVernay’s 2019 series When They See Us, which fictionalized an egregious miscarriage of justice in New York City in the 1980s.
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