Before he had even shot a single frame in Lagos, director Babatunde Apalowo knew his film depicting two men falling in love would never see the inside of a cinema in Nigeria. He made it anyway.
The 37-year-old wrote and helmed “All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White” as a gay-themed love story produced under the Polymath Pictures banner.
For a Nollywood film, Apalowo’s directorial feature debut is an extremely testy on-screen exploration within an African country where homosexuality is illegal and punishable by imprisonment, flogging and death.
Apalowo tells Variety he was shocked a few years ago to hear from a friend that his former roommate at university was lynched for being gay.
“Our residence was small rooms with bunk beds. It’s difficult to move around in that small physical space and not get to know people well. Yet I never knew he was gay.
The 37-year-old wrote and helmed “All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White” as a gay-themed love story produced under the Polymath Pictures banner.
For a Nollywood film, Apalowo’s directorial feature debut is an extremely testy on-screen exploration within an African country where homosexuality is illegal and punishable by imprisonment, flogging and death.
Apalowo tells Variety he was shocked a few years ago to hear from a friend that his former roommate at university was lynched for being gay.
“Our residence was small rooms with bunk beds. It’s difficult to move around in that small physical space and not get to know people well. Yet I never knew he was gay.
- 2/28/2024
- by Thinus Ferreira
- Variety Film + TV
“Bucky F*cking Dent,” the second movie written and directed by David Duchovny, is based on a novel by Duchovny that was published in 2016, and whether or not the story is autobiographical, it feels autobiographical, and I mean that as a compliment. Set in the summer of 1978, it’s framed around one man’s obsession with the Boston Red Sox — meaning, of course, the curse of the Bambino, going back to 1918, the last time (until 2004) the Sox won the championship.
The man is Ted Fulilove, which is a terrible last name for a movie character, though he’s played by Duchovny as a cussed crab apple with an amusing misanthropic put-down for every occasion (like: “Closure’s for morons”). “Bucky F*cking Dent” has a handful of characters, but it’s essentially a father-son two-hander — one of those dramadies in which the dad is a heartless-on-the-surface coot who was no good when...
The man is Ted Fulilove, which is a terrible last name for a movie character, though he’s played by Duchovny as a cussed crab apple with an amusing misanthropic put-down for every occasion (like: “Closure’s for morons”). “Bucky F*cking Dent” has a handful of characters, but it’s essentially a father-son two-hander — one of those dramadies in which the dad is a heartless-on-the-surface coot who was no good when...
- 6/13/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White, the debut feature from director
Babatunde Apalow, has won the 2023 Berlin Film Festival’s Teddy Award for best Lgbtqia+ film at this year’s Berlinale.
Apalow’s drama follows the story of two men, Bambino and Bawa, who meet in Lagos and immediately hit it off but struggle, in a society where homosexuality is illegal and socially taboo, to give into their desires. Produced by Polymath Pictures, All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White is being sold worldwide by Nigeria’s 2o9ine Films.
The Teddy for best documentary of the 2023 Berlinale went to Orlando, My Political Biography, which screened in Berlin’s Enocunters section. The cinematic debut of acclaimed trans writer Paul B. Preciado, author of Countersexual Manifesto, and Pornotopia, the film is a sort-of retelling of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 classic novel Orlando: A Biography,...
Babatunde Apalow, has won the 2023 Berlin Film Festival’s Teddy Award for best Lgbtqia+ film at this year’s Berlinale.
Apalow’s drama follows the story of two men, Bambino and Bawa, who meet in Lagos and immediately hit it off but struggle, in a society where homosexuality is illegal and socially taboo, to give into their desires. Produced by Polymath Pictures, All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White is being sold worldwide by Nigeria’s 2o9ine Films.
The Teddy for best documentary of the 2023 Berlinale went to Orlando, My Political Biography, which screened in Berlin’s Enocunters section. The cinematic debut of acclaimed trans writer Paul B. Preciado, author of Countersexual Manifesto, and Pornotopia, the film is a sort-of retelling of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 classic novel Orlando: A Biography,...
- 2/25/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Italy’s Coccinelle Film Sales has acquired world rights to Nigerian director Babatunde Apalowo’s gay-themed drama “All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White,” ahead of the film’s Berlin Film Festival launch.
“All the Colours” is the feature film debut of Apalowo, who was born in Ogbagi-Akoko, Nigeria, and is U.K.-based. Pic is world premiering in Berlin’s Panorama section. Apalowo also wrote and produced the restrained and tender drama about two men named Bambino and Bawa who meet in Lagos during a photography competition and immediately hit it off. During long trips exploring the city they develop a deep affection for each other. But in a society which considers homosexuality taboo, they feel the pressure of social norms.
Five years ago, the Nigerian government signed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, which essentially bans gay relationships.
Coccinelle, which is run by sales agent Francesca Breccia,...
“All the Colours” is the feature film debut of Apalowo, who was born in Ogbagi-Akoko, Nigeria, and is U.K.-based. Pic is world premiering in Berlin’s Panorama section. Apalowo also wrote and produced the restrained and tender drama about two men named Bambino and Bawa who meet in Lagos during a photography competition and immediately hit it off. During long trips exploring the city they develop a deep affection for each other. But in a society which considers homosexuality taboo, they feel the pressure of social norms.
Five years ago, the Nigerian government signed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, which essentially bans gay relationships.
Coccinelle, which is run by sales agent Francesca Breccia,...
- 2/14/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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