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  2. 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...

  3. Sam Adewunmi was also nominated for Best Actor and Shaheen Baig and Aisha Bywaters were nominated for Best Casting. In December 2019, BAFTA shortlisted the film and producer Myf Hopkins, for Outstanding Debut by a British writer, director or producer [ 13 ]

  4. 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.

  5. Jun 26, 2020 · The Last Tree: Directed by Shola Amoo. With Nicholas Pinnock, Denise Black, Samuel Adewunmi, Gbemisola Ikumelo. After a happy childhood in the countryside, a teenager moves to London, where he must navigate an unfamiliar environment on his road to adulthood.

  6. Sep 23, 2019 · Nicole Vassell. A new film explores a young boy’s journey from foster care back to his mother, and growing up feeling out of place. Writer and director Shola Amoo and lead actor Sam Adewunmi speak to Nicole Vassell about the project.

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  7. Sep 23, 2019 · That kid – Femi – is played by newcomers Tai Golding (younger) and Sam Adewunmi (older), and both actors are real finds.

  8. Sep 26, 2019 · The Last Tree isn’t perfect, but it’s an honest and insightful coming of age story that deserves to find an audience. Boys like Femi rarely get a chance to have their stories told on screen – and director Shola Amoo has successfully articulated the struggles of living between two separate cultures to a wider audience, while mostly ...

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