Teranga
2019
Director:
DOP:
Production:
Platform:
Daisy Squires, Sophia Seymour & Lou Marillier
Lou Marillier
Isosceles Productions
The Guardian, BBC Africa Eye
Fata and Yankuba are two young Gambians with ambitious dreams, who fled dictatorship and poverty and landed in Naples, only to discover a new kind of violence: a pernicious climate of racism and an unhelpful immigration system. Their only escape from the psychological torture of years spent waiting for documents in squalid camps is a small underground club in the heart of the city. The Teranga nightclub provides a rare safe space for migrants to meet young Italians while dancing and singing away the collective trauma of their journeys to Europe and the discrimination they face in Italy.
I was asked to shoot some additional scenes alongside Lou Marillier who shot the majority of the film. A few of my frames below.
On The Road to Hades, 2023 (in development)
Director: Daisy Squires, Sophia Seymour & Lou Marillier
Production: Isosceles Productions
Platform: The Guardian, BBC Africa Eye
Fata and Yankuba are two young Gambians with ambitious dreams, who fled dictatorship and poverty and landed in Naples, only to discover a new kind of violence: a pernicious climate of racism and an unhelpful immigration system. Their only escape from the psychological torture of years spent waiting for documents in squalid camps is a small underground club in the heart of the city. The Teranga nightclub provides a rare safe space for migrants to meet young Italians while dancing and singing away the collective trauma of their journeys to Europe and the discrimination they face in Italy.
I was asked to shoot some additional scenes alongside Lou Marillier who shot the majority of the film. A few of my frames below.