British-Nigerian rapper Skepta has won the Audience Choice Award at AFRIFF 2024. Co-directed by Hector Dockrill and Dwight Okechukwu, and written by Andrew Prince Boateng, Sotonye Ogan, and Dwight Okechukwu, the film tells the story of young Mark, played by Jude Carmichael, who struggles with settling into a new life in London after migrating from his home country, Nigeria.
Skepta hoped that Tribal Mark would address important social issues surrounding immigrants; mental health and racial prejudice. Speaking to Variety Magazine in May 2024, Skepta said;
Being the child of immigrants, when I come across other children of immigrants from around the world, I relate to them a lot. And I see how they struggle to communicate certain things, or how the trauma’s eating away at them, you know?” So I just feel like this film is a nice bit of therapy for people who think or feel like me
The film features actors such as Kola Banjo, Jude Carmichael, Camille Cole, Don Donald, Ciaran Duce, Divine Echeazu-Paul, Joseph Forman, Owen Hute, Dain King-Echeazu, Dasia King-Echeazu, Joshua Ojehonmon, Domas Okechukwu, Mark Oliver, Amelia Parillon, Afeni Prevost, Aayan Ibikunle Shoderu, Skeptt, Gabriel Kwasi Tedeku, Luis Timms, Tegasean Ubiebi, Ay Urunning.
