Professional Casting for Paid Film "Buka Naija"
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ADMITTED. Seeking cast for "Buka Naija" film. More details are below. About the project: Mama B is a cultural Nigerian woman who is rooted in her Nigerian-Yoruba culture, she loves cooking and had a very successful restaurant in the heart of Lagos Nigeria. After her husband died, she migrated to Canada with her 2 children in 2001, and worked as a caregiver for years, saving money to open her own restaurant in Canada. 10 years later Mama B finally opens a Nigerian Restaurant in Canada called Buka Plus, but with the new business comes the daily hassles of running the place. Each day comes with different recipes of dramas, with different struggles, cultural differences and challenges of running a local restaurant business in a foreign land while still struggling to raise her teenage son and twenty-five year old who won't stop reminding her they are grown ups. She wants to raise them the Nigerian way (old-fashioned). The kids are trying hard to get their mother to start seeing life differently and to live in the moment and not the past. Rate: Paid. Union Status: Non union. Additional information: Shooting in Hamilton mid-late October. If you're interested, please apply.
2 roles
Nigerian woman (Yoruba tribe) Black, curly hair, spassoe. disopelorion. Mothef to Didi and grandma to Jadesola. A single Mother of two. migrated to Canada, 10 years ago. She worked bona to open Me family restaurant. a typical elrkan mother, even though the has Wed in Canada for years, all that mottoes to her is the success of hot restaurant and raising her kids and grand-child the African may.
A yourg woman (figorian/Yoruba). She is Mama B's daughter and Jado's mother but wants to gain her freedom from hog over protective mother by any meant necessary. She is titugglag In nursing school and wants to become a professional makeup artist.
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