Thursday, May 29th, 2025

2024 Year-In-Review: Getting to Know What Kept Me Up Team Members

1. What we did for the first time in 2024

  • Opened our store and sold merch.
  • Opened a Patron 
  • Launched a new brand identity
  • Launched our YouTube channel with 3 new shows
  • Expanded #WKMUpShorts to spotlight two short films monthly with a Twitter Space
  • Hired our first full-time staff

2. Our future plans

  • Sell more merch
  • Go international! You might catch us at a couple of global film festivals
  • More video and audio content
  • More community discussions.
  • Return with our young adult internship program at some point. Keep an eye out.

3a. Most beautiful essays:

3b. Most read non-review essays

4. Favourite films

5. Favourite series

  • Nobody Wants This
  • Batman: Caped Crusader
  • Shogun
  • Fallout
  • Monk
  • Mr and Mrs Smith
  • Flawsome
  • Wura
  • X-Men 97
  • One Day
  • The Good Bad Mother
  • Silent
  • Goblin
  • Industry S1
  • Flawsome S2
  • Love is Blind

6. Favourite books

The Housemaid- Freida McFadden

The Mechanics of Yenagoa- Michael Afenfia

7. Artistes that made our year

  • Who’s on The Lord’s Side- Dunsin Oyekan and Mercy Chinwo
  • Ask About Me- Mohbad
  • Lift Up Your Eyes- Lionel Peterson
  • Gratitude- AEO
  • Me Le Se- Adekunle Gold
  • De Selby 1&2- Hozier 
  • Cola- CamelPhat and Elderbrook
  • Legend- Jannabi
  • Dancing Queen- ABBA
  • Florida!!!- Taylor Swift ft Florence and the Machine
  • Everyday (I Dey Pray)- KOLD AF ft Aema 
  • Undignified- Dunsin Oyekan
  • Juba- AEO

(Here is a Spotify Playlist for you)

8. Most of the time spent with:

Pushing the depth and breadth of our work.

9. The best time spent with:

#WKMUpShorts guests and our YouTube show guests!

10. Prevalent mood in 2024:

Things got serious!

11. What we would have liked to have done without in the team:

Not having enough resources like time and capital.

12. What we would like to convince everyone of:

Again, piracy doesn’t help the industry!

13. Most important realization:

There is so much noise around You should find ways to cut through it.

14. The best present we have given someone:

The Film That Lit My Fuse Episodes! It is an awesome resource for filmmakers!

15. The best gift that someone has given us:

Support from Iroko Critic, Iyebiye ‘Kaizenkreativ’ Adeitan and Mautin Tairu.

16. The most beautiful sentence of the year:

“I don’t think it’s a healthy industry for the arts when professionals work so much that they lose the joy of memory.”

17. 2024 was:

eventful!

18. 2025 will be:

taken slowly, with us cutting through the noise!

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