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Meet the director and star behind a new kind of London coming-of-age film. Writer-director Shola Amoo and actor Sam Adewunmi are the rising talents behind brilliant London drama...
Nicholas Pinnock as Mr Williams. Ruthxjiah Bellenea as Tope. Demmy Ladipo as Mace. Release. After premiering at 2019 Sundance Film Festival where it was well received, the film had its UK premiere at Sundance London in May 2019 and was released in UK cinemas on 27 September by Picturehouse Entertainment. [4] .
The Last Tree (2022) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Sep 27, 2019 · Shola Amoo explains how he sought to confound audience expectations in his semiautobiographical The Last Tree, the tale of a British-Nigerian boy who leaves an idyllic life with foster parents in the English countryside to join his birth mother on a London council estate.
Sep 23, 2019 · Tai Golding and Denise Black as Young Femi and Mary in The Last Tree Written and directed by Shola Amoo, the story is rooted in real-life experience; the child of a Nigerian mother, he spent time in foster care with a white family in rural England before returning to live with his mother, in London, and felt a tension between versions of ...
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Oct 24, 2024 · Coinciding with the 180th anniversary of the book’s original publication, the show tells the story of a little fir tree who longs for adventure and is desperate to grow up. The Fir Tree ’s three cast members are Denzel Baidoo (Bukoyo Saka in Dear England, National Theatre’s West End transfer; This Might Not Be It, Bush Theatre; Suspicion ...
Sep 11, 2019 · British writer-director Shola Amoo ’s second feature, The Last Tree, is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film set in the early 2000s. It centres on a young boy named Femi of Nigerian descent who’s being fostered by a white parent, Mary (Denise Black), in Lincolnshire.
