Private Project

Green passport at France 98: Nigerian supporters at the World Cup

In 1998, a group of Nigerian football supporters travelled to Paris for the World Cup match between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and Denmark. The journey and immediate aftermath of the match, with all the passion and colour associated with African football were recorded. Interviews of some of the fans later took place in 2006, in which they relived the experience. This rare archive material has been made into a short documentary film, 21 years later.

  • Ronke Macaulay
    Director
    Green passport in the Rainbow Nation, Green passport in the Gold Coast
  • Ronke Macaulay
    Writer
    Green passport in the Rainbow Nation, Green passport in the Gold Coast
  • Ronke Macaulay
    Producer
    Green passport in the Rainbow Nation, Green passport in the Gold Coast
  • Gladstone O Macaulay
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 46 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 14, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Nigeria
  • Country of Filming:
    France, United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • IRepresent International Documentary Festival
    Lagos
    Nigeria
    March 22, 2019
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Ronke Macaulay

Ronke Macaulay's career has fulfilled her mission to conceptualise, plan and execute creative projects. In 2015, she began to explore story telling via the medium of film. She was selected for a scriptwriting workshop at AFRIFF2015, which she followed up with a course on Directing at Film School in South Africa in 2016, working on a number of film projects as Line Producer and Associate Producer before writing, producing and directing her first solo documentary which was released in early 2017, followed by a second later that year. Her third film was completed at the beginning of 2019. All three are short documentaries focused on the experiences of Nigerians in Diaspora, unfolding against powerful thematic backdrops. Ronke's films have won several awards and she has also featured in a bestselling book about female directors in Nollywood.

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