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Yes there are so many other gods with different specialties in Yoruba mythology.

In this wiki page, the gods are listed and their abilities are explained : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_religion

Congrats! And love the chance to hear about unfamiliar mythologies. Are there any other specifically interesting stories or gods in Yoruba mythology?

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Yes it is common to mix both languages together. We have a language derivative of English called pidgin, it sounds like English if you listen closely but it’s broken. It’s spoken in other countries in West Africa.

If you are still there, one more question. Is it common to mix Yoruba and English in everyday language ?

Thank you very much, this means the world to us.

Hello, just realized our reply to your comment came as a stand-alone so here you go.

Reply: Hello, thank you for the kind words, our major influences comes from the work of filmmakers like Nolan, Tarantino, Michael Bay, Alfonso Cuaron, J.J Abrams, Bong Joon Ho. For most of us on the team, our influences do not only just come from film.

Did you see the film? What are your thoughts?

Super helpful, thank you. Also your movie is very impressive, very impressive. Good work !

To be honest, We haven’t thought of that before, but that’d be interesting to see, Thank you for this 😀

There’s a possibility of that happening, this is just one god out of a couple of other gods, we are looking at expanding this world and focusing on some other characters, it’s going to be interesting journey for us.

Finding these myths can be very hard even for us as Nigerians as there are little to no resources available on them. For this project we had to travel to a state (Ekiti State) to meet with people who worship these gods.

The actor who plays the son came for the audition of a previous project of ours so we had a relationship with him and after the casting call for this particular project didn’t provide us the actor we thought would be right for the role, our producer suggested him and that’s how he got the role.

The actress who plays the mother has no prior acting experience and is also a friend of our producer, after months of searching for an available actress, we settled for her and did a couple of rehearsals and made it work.

We are happy we did not disappoint haha, expect more African folklore from us 😀😀

How did you find your cast? The mother was very genuine.

BTW, I quite enjoyed but was expecting not to, haha. I love folklore, and African folklore is an untapped treasure trove in my opinion.

Will you be making movies for any other Yoruba myths?! I love myths and folklore and trying to find some of the less popular, well-known myths from non-English-speaking countries is tricky.

Have you guys thought about sometime in the future doing a “crossover” film that brings Yoruba mythology together with mythology from other indigenous cultures in the world?

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No we aren’t, we had no idea of what captain Alex was until about 2-3years ago

Are you inspired by ‘who killed captain Alex’?

To be honest with you, we had no idea we had famous waterfalls 😀, where is this located?

We like to pride ourselves on the fact that our films look a certain way but we can't really tell as you know maybe seeing the footage a million times does something in our heads.

We do not honestly think there is a need to innovate for camera movements, like what other movement is possible in the PTR axis, at least we don't know that for now, but what we do know is that so much has been made in over 100 years of film and i believe its a shared space where one can take inspiration to approach each scene differently depending on the mood and the feeling that should be evoked from watching a particular scene in the film.

We do not honestly think there is a need to innovate for camera movements, like what other movement is possible in the PTR axis, at least we don't know that for now, but what we do know is that so much has been made in over 100 years of film and its a shared space where one can take inspiration to approach each scene differently depending on the mood and the feeling that should be evoked from watching a particular scene in the film.

Innovate might not be the word but we believe that the approach to filming certain scenes should be well thought out.

Hello, we think this is a great question. Yes, there's a ton of talent, for us hiring a film crew isn't an easy process as most of them are situated in Lagos, Nigeria and we are based in Kaduna, Nigeria (it's a 12 -13 hour journey by road and 1hr by air) where there are little to none of these specialists available. The good ones are very occupied too, we have resulted to taking most of these jobs ourselves until we can afford to bring in these specialists.

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The most challenging things about the project came at each stage of the production.

During Pre-Production, it was figuring out how to approach some of the scenes in the film creatively, and finding our main cast as there are little to no actors and we could not afford the available ones.

In production we paused shooting for about 3 months to find the house that was perfect for some of the indoor scenes in the film, we eventually settled for an uncompleted building that was modified by our Production designer.

For Post-production, Visual effects were the most challenging aspect of making the film, as we wanted it to be very good.

We were working with the mantra "there should be no buts" and we really hope there isn't for the audience. haha

does this answer your question?

What were your inspirations for composition or cinematography styles for the film? Do you feel that there is a need to innovate for more camera movements in order to tell unique kind of stories like ones based on Yoruban Mythology?