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Oct 25, 2019 · Farming: Directed by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. With Leke Adebayo, Ademola Adedoyin, Adejola Adeyemi, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future.
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- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- 2019-10-25
Farming. A Nigerian boy, "farmed out" by his parents to a white British family, becomes the leader of a skinhead gang. Rent Farming on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or buy it on ...
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- Kate Beckinsale
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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 ...
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Oct 24, 2019 · Exactly what enables Enitan to harbor this degree of cognitive dissonance is both the crux of “Farming” and a point on which this provocative if slightly plodding movie remains elusive. The ...
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Sep 16, 2018 · Closely based on the director’s own troubled youth, Farming is rooted in rich, complex, potentially gripping material. But Akinnuoye-Agbaje slaps this story together with so little subtlety, he ...
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