Adaora Nwandu

After completing her studies at Oxford University in 1999, Adaora worked with African drama and documentary film makers Communicating for Change. She then studied in France for a year before departing for the UK to found Muka Flicks Ltd. Adaora’s next stop was a writing/directing course the University of Southern California (USC) followed by a stint with actors/filmmakers Tim and Daphne Reid at New Millennium Studios. She returned to England in 2005 to make Rag Tag, her first feature, and most recently Associate Produced another feature Changing Faces.

She and Faruk had been working together in various capacities for much of the last decade. One of the reasons she was asked to be a Producer on Changing Faces was because she had produced her own film Rag Tag. Like Rag Tag, Faruk wanted to create a film with a strong African flavour, which could be enjoyed and respected internationally and she happily took on the challenge. She handled the posting of the London based advertisements and helped with the auditions and rehearsals on that end. You could say she was the « London-link » in « Changing Faces ».

Adaora had worked with Yinka Ogun a few years earlier, and suggested he would be the ideal writer for Faruk’s script. She nursed it through its various re-inventions and helped edit the final draft to both Yinka and Faruk’s satisfaction.

Adaora’s company, Muka Flicks Ltd, had also faced many of the challenges Faruk anticipated such as the logistics of bringing European cast and crew over to Nigeria. However, the results of the European-Nigerian collaboration have proven extremely rewarding, both on and off screen and she encouraged Faruk to keep at it as he would surely reap the rewards in the near future. She believes « Changing Faces » will open up Nigeria internationally in terms of movie making, both for talent and location. She has full confidence in the positive reception the movie will get once it is exposed to the world.

And now that « Changing Faces » is complete, she looks forward to bringing another example of African excellence to a global audience.

After completing her studies at Oxford University in 1999, Adaora worked with African drama and documentary film makers Communicating for Change. She then studied in France for a year before departing for the UK to found Muka Flicks Ltd. Adaora’s next stop was a writing/directing course the University of Southern California (USC) followed by a stint with actors/filmmakers Tim and Daphne Reid at New Millennium Studios. She returned to England in 2005 to make Rag Tag, her first feature, and most recently Associate Produced another feature Changing Faces.

She and Faruk had been working together in various capacities for much of the last decade. One of the reasons she was asked to be a Producer on Changing Faces was because she had produced her own film Rag Tag. Like Rag Tag, Faruk wanted to create a film with a strong African flavour, which could be enjoyed and respected internationally and she happily took on the challenge. She handled the posting of the London based advertisements and helped with the auditions and rehearsals on that end. You could say she was the « London-link » in « Changing Faces ».

Adaora had worked with Yinka Ogun a few years earlier, and suggested he would be the ideal writer for Faruk’s script. She nursed it through its various re-inventions and helped edit the final draft to both Yinka and Faruk’s satisfaction.

Adaora’s company, Muka Flicks Ltd, had also faced many of the challenges Faruk anticipated such as the logistics of bringing European cast and crew over to Nigeria. However, the results of the European-Nigerian collaboration have proven extremely rewarding, both on and off screen and she encouraged Faruk to keep at it as he would surely reap the rewards in the near future. She believes « Changing Faces » will open up Nigeria internationally in terms of movie making, both for talent and location. She has full confidence in the positive reception the movie will get once it is exposed to the world.

And now that « Changing Faces » is complete, she looks forward to bringing another example of African excellence to a global audience.