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Sep 18, 2018 · Toronto Film Review: ‘Farming’. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's painfully autobiographical directorial debut about a black kid joining a white skinhead gang in the 1980s. By Jessica Kiang.
Oct 24, 2019 · “Farming” is a mystery movie in which the author investigates himself — and doesn’t fully share the answers. Farming. Rated R for racial slurs and violence. Running time: 1 hour 41 minutes.
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- What Is Farming?
- How Many Children Were Fostered?
- How Accurate Is Farming?
- Is The Teacher in Farming Based on A Real person?
- How Did He Turn His Life around?
- What Happened to His Parents?
- Farming's Message
Today, the practice sounds unbelievable, but it was a reality in the 60s and 70s. “It’s why I wanted to tell the story,” says Akinnuoye-Agbaje. “It’s such a little known part of British history, but it’s such an important part of our racial history in this country.” In Africa, it was actually common place to send children away to families living in...
Akinnuoye-Agbaje was one of 10 children taken in by his foster parents. He was mostly raised by his foster mother Ingrid Carpenter (Kate Beckinsale), while his foster father was away driving lorries for a living. When Ingrid took in the vast brood, including his two sisters, they were the only black children in Tilbury, an area where far-right grou...
In the film, Ingrid makes Akinnuoye-Agbaje shoplift, which was something that really happened. “I used to have dogs set on me,” he said. His foster father also sends the young boy out to face the skinheads in the film, which was also real. “You had to fight,” he adds. Eventually Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s parents, who he barely knew, returned to take him h...
The teacher who reaches out to him in the film is actually a mix of people who helped him see there was a way out. “The truth is, personally I couldn’t make the transition in my life. It was an amalgamation of my teacher, a social worker, a fellow student. I had to see intelligence as a better way. They started me on the academic route so I could a...
“The key was the first exam I passed,” he says. “I had to retake my O Levels, I think I got a C, but I applied myself. “You have to understand before that I thought I was useless - then the exam was the breakthrough. I hadn’t realised it before, I wasn’t aware, now I knew I just had to apply the same formula in my life.” Akinnuoye-Agbaje went from ...
While he’s now more in touch with his Nigerian heritage, Akinnuoye-Agbaje says resolving his feelings in regards to his birth family proved difficult. He’s never discussed what happened with them until this day. “There’s quite a bit of denial,” he says. “With my foster parents, it’s complex. They took these 10 Nigerian children in, which is extraor...
While the aftermath of his childhood should give us hope, for Akinnuoye-Agbaje, the film isn’t about that. “Nothing much changes, whether that’s the relationship to the wider population or tolerance. Nothing will until there’s acceptance - there are always ripples of discontent,” he says. “Just look at Windrush two years ago - nothing changed. The ...
- Jo-Anne Rowney
When all seems lost, a sympathetic teacher, Miss Dapo (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), offers him one last shot at redemption. Told with brutal honesty, FARMING is an unflinching autobiographical portrait of a...
Nov 3, 2019 · LEILA FADEL, HOST: And finally today, a film about one man's journey into and out of a white supremacist gang. But what's truly remarkable is that the man at the center of the story is black, and...
Sep 16, 2018 · Movies. Movie Reviews. ‘Farming’: Film Review | TIFF 2018. A troubled black teenager joins a white racist gang in Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's autobiographical debut 'Farming,' which co-stars...
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Farming. DRAMA. Based on his own life story, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s FARMING charts the extraordinary journey of a young fostered Nigerian boy who, struggling to find an identity, falls in with a skinhead gang in 1980s England.
