Book Sprints Film Released!

We are proud to announce the first film made about a Book Sprint. This short film (20 minutes) was produced in Nigeria during the ‘Nameless’ Book Sprint in December of 2014.

Produced and directed by Barbara Rühling and Luis Antonio Delgado.
Supported by Chibu Ebii, Azeenarh Mohammed, and Adam Hyde.

This group of writers are Rafeeat Aliyu, Fola Lawal, Kalu Aja, Chioma Agwuegbo, Pearl Osibu, Yas Niger, Elnathan John, and Azeenarh Mohammed.
The Book Sprint was convened by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Nigeria and facilitated by Barbara Rühling and Simone Poutnik.

The book is available for free here: ng.boell.org/2014/11/21/nameless

The film looks behind the scenes of the writing of “Nameless,” a book written in five days and nights in a collaborative effort by eight Nigerian writers. They came together in a Book Sprint to take a critical look at present-day Nigeria ahead of the national elections in 2015 and to offer glimpses of alternative futures ahead. What started as political critique soon turned into provocative fictional stories. These are centered around a market town that could be any and everywhere in the country, and thus remains nameless.

The short documentary tells Nigeria’s current situation through the story of the book, picking up the pulse on the street, the intensity of the concern for everyday issues and the hope for change in the future.