Portfolio
TAINTED
TV Series (1hr Ep.)
Period Piece, Family, Drama
High Budget.
Set in the 18th Century, within a wildly dysfunctional and multi-racial family, “TAINTED” follows the extraordinary lives of the Boulogne family over several decades, from the Seven Years’ War to the French Revolution.
Pilot:
1758. The Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe.
The lives of the prosperous Boulogne family are thrown into disarray by the disappearance of eldest daughter, Benedicte, and a fire in the cane fields which are the source of the family’s wealth, started by its illegitimate son, Joseph.
THE MACHIAVELLIS
Feature Film* (1h50m)
Comedy, Action
High Budget
1513, Italy
Florence’s disgraced ambassador, Niccolo Machiavelli, will stop at nothing in his quest to regain power, but when his son becomes an obstacle, Niccolo is forced to choose between his fortune and his family.
* This project has also been written in a Mini-Series format.
AFRICAN|AMERICAN
Created by Chisom Chieke
Feature Film (1h45m)
Romantic Comedy
Low Budget
When Atlanta native, Trey, proposes to his “African Queen”, Ada, it seems her dreams are truly about to come true but with a wedding on the way, only one thing is for sure – she cannot hide from her immigrant Nigerian family’s expectations for much longer.
African|American is a Rom-Com centered on a culture clash, as it exposes the dichotomy within the Black cultural experience in America through the relationship between a home-bred Atlanta native and his fiancée, a first-gen Nigerian-American. Using comedy as a subtle device, African|American addresses major themes like colorism and classism that historically plague the global Black community.
QUEENIE
Mini-Series (1hr Ep.)
Action/Crime/Thriller
Medium Budget
Harlem, NY. c.1920
She is tall, slender, always impeccably dressed, with never so much as a hair out of place.
She moves, straight-backed, through a world in which black women like her are supposed to be maids, not queens.
Born in the French Caribbean islands, she taught herself English to get ahead.
Raised by an illiterate single mother, she taught herself arithmetic to get even further.
In a world ruled by men, she held her own, defeating all competitors to become the eventual head of the illegal numbers racket. Beating back rival outfits, evading the police, Stephanie St Claire will stop at nothing to secure her edge.
MYRON
TV-Series (30min Ep.)
Comedy
Medium Budget
Wealthy alcoholic socialite Myron navigates the wreckages of his life, accompanied by Artemis, the physical manifestation of his chronic depression. When Myron meets a girl, it looks like his luck’s about to change, but instead he ends up dragging her down into the pit along with him.
ANIKULAPO
Animation
Mini-Series (40min Ep.)
Action/Thriller
Medium Budget
Set in Lagoon City, a modern day hot and humid African metropolis, the series follows the lives of Justice Odogwu and John Coker, each of whom must balance basic survival decisions with their higher calling. Social justice is an alien concept for these young men whose only available vocation, given the corrupt system amputating their futures, is street hawking.
By forming a symbiotic bond with Justice’s human body, Anikulapo, a powerful ancestral spirit, makes a transcendence into the physical realm where IT empowers Justice and John in their mission of cleansing the nation from the corruption plaguing it.
Wzro. MENELIK
Feature Film (2h)
History, War, Drama
High Budget
1896, East Africa
Taytu, the astute wife of Emperor Menelik, navigates the male-dominated power circles to lead her country to inflict a humiliating defeat to the Italian occupation, for what is to this day considered the most significant black victory of independence over treachery and colonialism.
Based on historical events.