Bola Agbaje brings Snapchat social movie-making to Nigeria

Following the success of Snapped the Movie, the UK’s first Snapchat movie, 2Far Media is continuing the commitment to creating a series of ‘social movies’ by pioneering a collaborative project to create a Snapchat movie with a distinctly Nigerian flavour.
Social movies is a new term coined by 2Far Media for such short social media films.
Written by Bola Agbaje, partnering with Nigerian director, Kewa Obi, Snapped Nigeria has used a highly collaborative process of workshops and online social media meet-ups between the two countries.
Snapped Nigeria launched on Snapchat at the end of March 2016 on 2Far Media’s social movies’ Snapchat account. It is being produced in association with the British Council as part of UK/NG 2015-16 programme.
Agbaje is a playwright/screenwriter and creative director listed in Debrett’s People of Today.
Agbaje’s first play, Gone Too Far! premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2007, and subsequently ran at Hackney Empire and The Albany Theatre. The play won the 2008 Olivier Award for an Outstanding Achievement, and the same year Agbaje was also nominated for the Evening Standard Awards for Most Promising Playwright.
In the last nine years, Agbaje has also had a number of her plays performed in London theatres including, Off the Endz, Detaining Justice, Belong, House of Corrections, The Burial and Take a Deep Breath and Breathe.
Many now well-known actors had their early career debuts performing roles in Agbaje’s plays. Her film adaptation of Gone Too Far! premiered at the London Film Festival in 2013 and won the 2014 DC Award at the London Comedy Film Awards.
Gone Too Far! went on cinema distribution in the UK and Nigeria and won the People’s Choice award at the African International Film Festival (AFRIFF) 2014 and the Bafta/LA prize at the 2015 Pan-African Film Festival.
Agbaje is currently writing the sequel to Gone Too Far! and also writing an original TV drama series currently in development. She wrote the original screenplay for the highly successful 2015 Nigerian feature film, Fifty, and in 2016 received her third commission from Royal Court for a new original play as well as a commission by Mulberry Pictures for a two-part drama to be broadcast on prime-time TV in the UK.
Bola Agbaje is a co-director of production company, 2Far Media Limited, and has developed and written the web TV comedy series, Hot Pepper, and a short social movie on Snapchat called Snapped the Movie, which was the UK’s first Snapchat film. Both projects were released online in 2015 and Snapped Nigeria, her second Snapchat social movie, is currently in production in London and Lagos.