crew
DIRECTOR/PRODucer
Bolanle Austen-Peters is the Director and Producer at BAP Productions. She has a master’s degree in International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Law degree from the University of Lagos. She worked as a lawyer with the United Nations before starting the renowned cultural hub; Terra Kulture in 2003.
She has featured three consecutive times in Forbes Afrique as one of the most influential women in Africa. Also described by CNN as the “woman pioneering theatre in Nigeria” she has received wide global media attention and awards for her contribution to the arts. She is an award-winning movie and theatre Producer/Director whose plays have travelled to London’s West-end, South Africa, Egypt and Dubai. Her directorial debut, “The Bling Lagosians” won 3 awards at the Best of Nollywood Awards.
Her second film, “Collision Course” showed at the Toronto International Film Festival’s market screening and won Best Movie West Africa at the Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards; her third film “Man of God” was a Netflix Original, and “Funmilayo RansomeKuti” won Best Screenplay and Best Feature Film at the Africa International Film Festival and is the biggest biopic in West Africa
Producer
Jospeh Umoibom is an alumni of the United States International Visitors Leadership program (IVLP) and has over 17 years management experience in the creative industry, theatre and film. He is the Producer for BAP Productions theatre shows including the Broadway-style musical productions Saro the Musical, Wakaa the Musical, Fela and the Kalakuta Queens, Queen Moremi the Musical, The Oluronbi Musical, Man Enough, Death and the King’s Horseman, Trials of Brother Jero, Motherland the Musical and a host of other theatre productions.
Saro the Musical and Wakaa the Musical have gone on to have very successful sold out shows in London. Fela and the Kalakuta Queens had huge success in Pretoria, Dubai and Cairo. He is also the Producer for the BAP Productions movies including “93 Days” , “The Bling Lagosians” , “Collision Course” , “Man of God” , “Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti” and “House of Ga’a”.
director of photography
A festival award winning cinematographer of 28 years, John Njaga Demps is an alumnus of The American Film Institute (’83) where he learned the art of storytelling with the camera. After completing the Cinematography Program at AFI, Demps began his outstanding career in the world of music videos. Demps has also collaborated on numerous studio and independent features, television movies and international documentary films and commercials.
Some of them have lead him to Western and Southern Africa, Iceland and Japan. An international cinematographer, he is experienced in all image capturing formats from Arri Alexa, RED, HD to SUPER 35mm, Super 16mm and Still Photography. Currently Demps resides in Dakar, Senegal where he continues to capture beautiful images both here and internationally.
