Tunde Ikoli
Writing
Biography
Tunde Ikoli is a British filmmaker and playright born in London’s East End. In 1973, he wrote and co-directed his first film Tunde’s Film. The film led to a job at the Royal Court Theatre as Assistant Director and he produced his first play, Short Sleeves in Summer, in 1974.
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Elphida is 30. She has been married for 13 years and has 3 children. She plans to restart her education when her youngest child goes to nursery. Then the nursery is closed. On top of this, her parents are contemplating divorce and want her to act as a go between.
Elphida
With a drug-addled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him, Abel is determined to go straight and stay clean... as soon as he's seen to one final heist. In the house that he burgles he comes across Elizabeth - rich, desperate, hopelessly addicted to a heroin and unconscious. Saving her from the clutched of an overdose, Abel stays out of compassion which eventually evolves into attraction. But when Abel takes on Elizabeth he also takes on her family. His resolution to go straight has to go on the back burner while he struggles against a drugs conspiracy that stretched from the slums of the East End to the Houses of Parliament.
Smack and Thistle
Disenfranchised black, white and mixed race youths in East London decide to rob a bank.