Town Crier

Majek is the founder of news station Town Crier, one of the most popular networks in Bafana city (a fictional city very similar to Lagos) popular for dishing out the controversial and wacky version of the news. After his company was acquired by the obnoxious Madam Kofo, everything goes to Mad Town … and stays there.

Join him, his dysfunctional colleagues and family as they redefine the African dream.

  • Somto Ajuluchukwu
    Director
  • Kunle Popoola
    Writer
  • Micheal Kayode
    Producer
  • Isaac Geralds
    Key Cast
    "Majek Itama"
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Sattire
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 50 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 15, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    5,500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Nigeria
  • Country of Filming:
    Nigeria
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Animation / Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • African International Film Festival
    Lagos, Nigeria
    Nigeria
    November 2, 2017
    Nigerian Premier
    Official Sélection
  • Lights Camera Africa Film Festival
    Lagos, Nigeria
    Nigeria
    September 29, 2018
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • Vortex Studios
    Country: Nigeria
    Rights: All Rights
  • Prima Vista, LLC
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Somto Ajuluchukwu

Somto Ajuluchukwu born February 24th, 1991 is an emerging Film Maker, Entertainment & Technology entrepreneur with a background in Economics from Crawford University.

He began his professional career as a film maker in 2014 after founding Vortex Studios (Studio of the Year Lagos Comic Con 2016) an animation and comic book company, where he published his initial works, Directing his first short animated film in 2016 called Town Crier, shortly after a character called Strike Guard in the Vortex catalogue was listed 15 most influential black super heroes in the world by CBR (Comic Book Resources) and later produced as an animated short film featured on VICE & Design Indaba in 2017.

In early 2018 he moved from Vortex to start C3 Africa (Creative Content Conference) Nigerias first content market serving as meeting point for international companies discovering and buying Nigerian content, this expanded to the Ghanaian territory in August 2018, and has become a conduit connecting the industry locally and to international stake holders.

In February 2018, Prima Vista another innovative venture was born; a distribution and production company for both Film & TV content was co-founded by Somto Ajuluchukwu making her cinema distribution debut with Ghanian sensational film LUCKY with a growing catalog of more films and TV shows to come.

Somto Ajuluchukwu is based in Lagos & Accra.

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Director Statement

I am Anyanwu, eye of the Sun, I believe film either consumed or created is the ability to live in alternate reality while wielding unimaginable freedom to share individual or unified perspective. Town crier breaks the conservative careful method of story telling in Nollywood, it's an expression of the true nature of Nigerians through this dysfunctional characters and unconventional story telling.