We are not robots, we are also humans. Thank you for 2023!
2022 Year-In-Review: Getting to Know What Kept Me Up Team Members
1. What we did for the first time in 2023
Provided media coverage for a film event.
Supported multiple festivals in one year as a media partner: TAFM, and ESIFF.
Attended a major Netflix event.
Attended several film premieres.
Received and unboxed packages from TNC Africa, Netflix, Prime Video and Biodun Stephen.
Started #WKMUpShorts on Twitter to spotlight a short film weekly. All thanks to a contributor.
2. Our future plans
Hire an assistant editor
Do more media stuff like videos and audio content.
Unveil a new branding. New look, same us.
Curate more one-pager infographics. We see that you love them.
More curated listicles
Resume our short film reviews. We plan to make them mini-reviews of shorter word count length.
Return with our young adult internship program at some point. Keep an eye out.
3. Most beautiful essays:
Northern representation in Nollywood essay
“Why are Nollywood Movies So Bad?” essay
Theatre’s Legacy in Nollywood: Acting
In Defense of ‘Gangs of Lagos’ and The Future of Our Films
A ‘Dark October’ Essay: Linda Ikeji and the Mob
4. Favourite films
Anatomy of a Fall
The Meeting
Barbie
Across the Spider-Verse
Rye Lane
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
Creed 3
Glass Onion
Wakanda Forever
Rocky franchise
Kingdom (2019)
Kingdom: Far And Away
Enola Holmes
Banshees Of Inisherin
Gangs Of Lagos
5. Favourite series
Hunters season 1
Last Man on Earth season 1
The Office season 2-3
Twinkling Watermelon
Moonlight Chicken
Succession
Ted Lasso
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Scavengers Reign
Slow Horses
Blue Eye Samurai
Barry
The Fall Of The House Of Usher
The Bear
Foundation
Gen V
6. Favourite books
The Daily Stoic – Ryan Holiday
On Juneteenth – Annette Gordon-Reed
7. Artistes that made our year
Feel – Davido
Kenya Grace – Strangers
Holy Ghost – Omah Lay
Somebody Else – The 1975
Vancouver 2 – Big Naughty
Better Not – Micro
The Moon Represents My Heart – Teresa Teng
I Don’t Understand But I Love You – SEVENTEEN
Omo Mi Seun Rere – Christy Essien Igbokwe
Ji- AnEndlessOcean
Fragrance to Fire- Dunsin Oyekan
Konko Below- Lagbaja
8. Most of the time spent with:
Interacting with our readership and getting to know their preferences.
9. The best time spent with:
The Tentmakers and the Hidden Men and Women of Nollywood
10. Prevalent mood in 2023:
Feeling extra loved. We thought we were loved in 2022. 2023 came with us feeling baby-ed by our followers.
11. What we would have liked to have done without in the team:
Not being able to attend AFRIFF full time.
Parting with an early member of our social media team
12. What we would like to convince everyone of:
Piracy doesn’t help the industry.
13. Most important realization:
Nollywood remains wild!
14. The best present we have given someone:
It has to be the DVD copies of Phone Swap and The Figurine.
15. The best gift that someone has given us:
The private messages of motivation from our community. It gave us extra fuel to keep going at intervals. (Also, that Biodun Stephen package ????)
16. The most beautiful sentence of the year:
Info leyan finfo (Knowledge carries you places)
17. 2023 was:
Overwhelming with work, love and support.
18. 2024 will be:
A rollercoaster!
