Quramo Productions, a writer and manufacturing home, has wrapped up the script lab for Yellow Moon, a groundbreaking scripted sequence addressing home and sexual violence (DSV) in Lagos. The sequence is impressed by Dwelling for a Greater Goal – a Quramo Publishing title written by Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, government secretary, Lagos State Home and Sexual Violence Company (DSVA), and survivor accounts from Ladies At Danger Worldwide Basis (WARIF).
Developed by the Quramo Artistic Lab (QCL), Yellow Moon is a book-to-screen adaptation, spotlighting the facility of literature and movie to inform socially pressing African tales. The drama-style sequence will mirror actual processes, challenges, and triumphs confronted by DSV responders, survivors, and justice advocates.
“E-book-to-screen storytelling permits us to protect and prolong the impression of highly effective African narratives,” Gbemi Shasore, CEO, Quramo Publishing and Quramo Productions, mentioned. “With Yellow Moon, we’re equipping younger filmmakers to inform value-driven tales whereas serving to audiences higher perceive—and have interaction with—the realities of home and sexual violence.”
Highlights of the mission embody coaching of over 90 creatives throughout scriptwriting, manufacturing, and post-production, with Albanto Scriptwriters as supply companions, Lagos DSVA and WARIF as technical advisors and WAPA, Co-Creation Hub, Hint TV, Naija FM, Come up TV, PopCentral TV as companions. Yellow Moon will probably be screened in communities throughout Lagos IBILE LGAs in partnership with WAPA and be accessible for pageant submissions to AFRIFF, African Movie Competition Atlanta, and extra.
It is going to premiere on-line and thru area people screenings and worldwide distribution companions, with every episode providing sensible info for survivors—together with helplines with some episodes produced in Pidgin English for accessibility.
It will be recalled that in November final 12 months, Quramo Publishing and Productions introduced the launch of Quramo Artistic Lab with an open name for early-career scriptwriters to affix its inaugural book-to-screen adaptation programme.
The six-to-eight-week lab introduced collectively rising writers and skilled mentors to develop scripts that highlight socially impactful tales. The Quramo Artistic Lab supplied Nigerian writers and filmmakers a singular alternative to hone their craft whereas amplifying narratives of social significance. As each a writer and manufacturing home, Quramo bridges the hole between literature and movie, empowering authors to create worlds and filmmakers to carry them to life.
Quramo has pioneered this method by the Quramo Competition of Phrases, which fosters networking between writers and filmmakers, and thru vital docu-films productions like Journey of an African Colony and Loot and the Misplaced Kingdoms, each of which began as books and later grew to become display screen variations displaying on Netflix.
Quramo’s Artistic Lab is distinct in its unique concentrate on book-to-screen variations, combining over a decade of publishing experience with a dedication to high quality storytelling. The programme kicked off a multi-stage initiative the place accomplished scripts transfer to the Quramo Manufacturing Lab, and remodeling such scripts into high-quality productions. Individuals will acquire hands-on expertise in display screen adaptation, enriching Nigerian movie tradition by celebrating its literary heritage.
The Quramo Artistic Lab additionally introduced itself as an avenue of job-creation alternatives for rising creatives in a collaborative setting led by seasoned professionals.
Scriptwriting companions embody Albanthso, who integrates know-how with storytelling, Utica Capital, Co-Creation Hub, TraceTV, the Megaletrics Radio Group, White Harvest Community, and extra. The partnerships place the lab to supply high-caliber content material that showcases Nigerian expertise. The ultimate productions will premiere at Quramo’s Competition of Phrases, on the Qshorts YouTube channel, and at neighborhood screenings throughout Lagos.
The Quramo Artistic Lab seeks to raise the standard of display screen variations in Nigeria, equip aspiring writers and filmmakers with real-world expertise, and drive conversations on social points. By merging publishing with movie, Quramo provides voice to impactful tales which may in any other case go untold.
