Essex Girls
Navigating adolescence in Benfleet, Essex has not been straightforward for Bisola. Flipping the «Essex Girl» trope, this coming-of-age film explores Black British girlhood and magical female friendships.
- Country: Storbritannia / United Kingdom
- Year: 2023
- Length: 15
- Language: Engelsk / English
- Director: Yero Timi-Biu
- Script: Busayo Ige
- Photography: Nathalie Pitters
- Editing: Galina Chakarova
- Music: A.G
- Production design: Phoebe Platman
- Costume: Cynthia Lawrence-John
- Makeup design: Bianca Simone Scott
- Cast: Busayo Ige, Corinna Brown, Maisie Smith, Adrianna Bertola, Tomi Egbowon-Ogunjobi, Krysstina Frempong, Rebecca Dike, Daniel Adeosun
- Producer: Angela Moneke, Simon Hatton
- Contact: angie(at)monegram.co.uk
Yero Timi-Biu
Yero Timi-Biu is a multiple award-winning writer-director for TV and film with projects for HBO, BBC, Channel 4, BFI, and Audible. Timi-Biu has also been a staff writer on original shows for Sky One and Netflix. Her short films as writer-director 0.5%, Signs, and Beneath the Surface, and as director Essex Girls have played at international festivals in competition such as BFI London Film Festival, Encounters, Aesthetica, and Hamptons International Film Festival. Timi-Biu was one of Edinburgh TV Festival’s prestigious ‘Ones to Watch’ for 2020/2021.