Directing
Korede Azeez
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Directing
Credits
4 titles
In 2022, 32-year-old writer and director, Korede Azeez was one of six winners of the Netflix-UNESCO African Folktales Reimagined competition, a groundbreaking initiative that aimed to find some of the continent’s breakout filmmakers. She was the only West African Muslim woman to achieve this feat among six other finalists. She received $75,000 to create short films through a local production company and under the guidance of Netflix-appointed supervising producers and industry mentors from across the continent.
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NRAfter a tragic loss, a father's protective bubble is challenged when his daughter seeks life's temptations.
It Blooms in June
2024
NRZainab, a recently widowed Muslim woman, endures the suffocating confines of her mother-in-law's home where she must remain until the end of her mandatory mourning period. Burdened with financial woes and a secret pregnancy, an unlikely friendship becomes her lifeline as she confronts her grief and redefines her aspirations in a struggle to move on.
With Difficulty Comes Ease
2024
Daddy Bear follows Fahd, a father raising his ten-year-old daughter Aisha and a newborn following the death of their mother.
Daddy Bear
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Behind the camera
NRAfter a tragic loss, a father's protective bubble is challenged when his daughter seeks life's temptations.
It Blooms in June
2024
NRZainab, a recently widowed Muslim woman, endures the suffocating confines of her mother-in-law's home where she must remain until the end of her mandatory mourning period. Burdened with financial woes and a secret pregnancy, an unlikely friendship becomes her lifeline as she confronts her grief and redefines her aspirations in a struggle to move on.
With Difficulty Comes Ease
2024
NRZainab, a recently widowed Muslim woman, endures the suffocating confines of her mother-in-law's home where she must remain until the end of her mandatory mourning period. Burdened with financial woes and a secret pregnancy, an unlikely friendship becomes her lifeline as she confronts her grief and redefines her aspirations in a struggle to move on.
With Difficulty Comes Ease
2024
Daddy Bear follows Fahd, a father raising his ten-year-old daughter Aisha and a newborn following the death of their mother.
Daddy Bear
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