All roads led to the Filmhouse Cinemas in Lekki on the 19th of October 2019 for the exclusive screening and premier of the highly anticipated movie \u201cFarming\u201d<\/strong>. Written and directed by Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje, Farming tells the tale of his traumatic early life turned into a drama for his directorial debut. The movie premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and won the Michael Powell Award at the 2019 Edinburgh Film Festival. The premiere evening in Lagos was powered by Access Bank, Accelerate TV, Stunt Group and Filmhouse Cinemas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Farming<\/em>, which had been in the works for nearly two decades, explored a real-life mystery: it is the incredible story of how Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje, a young Nigerian boy raised by white foster parents in 1970s Tilbury, Essex, had forged an identity for himself in a violently racist local skinhead gang, and lived to tell the tale. It both dramatises a brutal and moving coming-of-age and shines a light on a little-known chapter in the story of race relations in Britain: the practice that led to thousands of Nigerian children like Akinnuoye-Agbaje being \u2018farmed out\u2019 to British families in that period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Agbaje was given away at birth to white parents which were common practice in those times; tens of thousands of Nigerians would give away their children, this was some sort of social experience. It\u2019s a story of a young man displaced from his cultural heritage and trying to find his identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n