
Ronald Yusuff
Production
Biography
Ronald Yusuff is a Nigerian film producer and a member of The Critics, an art collective from Kaduna known for creating films and music. He is a co-founder of Clan Yujo, a production company based in Kaduna, northern Nigeria. Clan Yujo is not just a business but a family endeavor that thrives on community and shared passion. The company has produced a diverse range of films with our growing film community in northern Nigeria, each one reflecting the team's unique vision, perspective, and storytelling prowess. In 2023, we created three short films: “One can only hope and wonder,” commissioned by the Museum For Modern Arts, Frankfurt (MMK, Frankfurt), “A tomb for the abandoned,” funded by The Critics, and “Into the woods,” commissioned by MOCADA museum in New York. Clan Yujo has produced videos for Sony Music France, Paramount Pictures, and handled the post-production for God's Wife by Dika Ofoma, which was selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025 and the 2025 African Film Festival New York. The artist group co-directed and produced a documentary feature with New Zealand filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly called Crocodile, which was selected for the IDFA forum 2024 and had its world premiere at the Berlinale 2026.
Known For

In Nigeria, the young art-collective The Critics, armed with makeshift gear, conjures homemade sci-fi spectacles, chronicling their reality while blasting into wild imagined worlds.
Crocodile

Follow Óla, a teenager who suddenly discovers that he is the reincarnation of a demigod, as he now needs to face his recently found destiny.
Ogun Óla: War is Coming

Melissa lives with her sick mom and works a repetitive job at a supermarket. She belongs to a forum of White Hat Hackers who get paid to solve cybercrime cases, all the while investigating her father’s mysterious disappearance. When an old acquaintance offers Mel a lucrative job hacking elite cybercrime gang The Click, she’s reluctant to get involved, but when her mother’s condition worsens, stress gets the better of Mel and she takes the job.
The Click

Two brothers move silently through the mundane world, carrying an unseen offering of light. As they journey from place to place, dancing and observing, subtle traces of change begin to appear, revealing how quiet presence can shift everything.
Unearthly

The Pseudobulbar Effect (Becoming Joker) is a short experimental film inspired by Todd Philips' 'The Joker'.
The Pseudobulbar Effect

Ball is a short film Inspired by the late Kobe Bryant. It shows the story of a boy who grew up watching Kobe play.
Ball

Timothee is a story of a humanoid boy trying to navigate life in the northern part of Nigeria as he finds himself in a series of misfortunate events that come as a result of his past.
Timothee

Prince Okiki, very proud and arrogant is left to take over the affairs of Saki kingdom after his father, the king, Oba Adeyeye Adoloju III left for a peace keeping mission at Sepeteri. Unknown to him, the enemies had advanced and caught him off guard.
King

One Can Only Hope And Wonder is a narrative film inspired by real-life events in connection with the stolen artworks in the Benin expedition of 1897, the ongoing topic of restitution in the art world, and how the works of artists are perceived. The Critics Company is a Nigerian artist group formed in Kaduna in 2015, consisting of Godwin Gaza Josiah, Victor Josiah, Raymond Yusuff, Richard Yusuff, and Ronald Yusuff. For their very first exhibition, the group has created a new work especially for ZOLLAMTMMK.
One Can Only Hope And Wonder

"For every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction."
Who Are We Against Fate

Alice falls in love with someone while working on a thesis on men. Her emotions go down the drain as she makes a tragic discovery on her newly-found lover. The truth lies there in the last minute.
Game of Two

Chase is a short film made by teenage filmmakers The Critics.
Chase

Three teenagers journey into their community's forest in a quest to find long lost hidden treasure leading to a series of unexpected events influenced by the forest guardian.
Into the Woods

This short was made so you feel uncomfortable for a couple of seconds. Did we do good?
SPiN

Z is a short film set in a post apocalyptic era in Nigeria around the 2050s which reveals a developed Nigeria undergoing invasions. The word Z centers around a scientifical project (PROJECT Z) created by a Company called 'The Triangle'.
Z: The Beginning

The Camssassins is an exaggerated film about the filmmaker struggle.
The Camssassins

After an insurgent attack on his village, Dahiru experiences the harsh conditions of living in an IDP camp while struggling with grief and loss.