Teejay Olakojo

Teejay has recently produced and directed the film Àjọkẹ́, which is being screened across South Wales.

Àjọkẹ́ is an autobiographical short film about a Nigerian model in the UK whose confidence is shaken after a powerful fashion agent rejects her body, beauty, and identity. Forced into a symbolic box of limitation, Àjọkẹ́ confronts the pain of being reduced and misjudged. Through ancestral praise, ritualistic movement, and self-remembrance, she reclaims beauty, power, and identity on her own terms.

Commissioned by Welsh theatre company FIO, the film is currently being shown in venues across Wales and will then be screened at festivals. On working with the USW Startup Stiwdio, Teejay said, "the Startup Stiwdio provided me space to rehearse, create my director’s treatment, and plan for the film’s production.”

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