Crocodile
The Critics, Pietra Brettkelly
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. A vibrant documentary and a gleeful ode to the power of (self) invention.
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The Critics are a group of five – Raymond, Ronald and Richard Yusuff, Godwin and Victor Josiah. With no formal film education and since being young children, The Critics have developed a cinematic language rooted in imagination, experimentation, and community. They have made 54 short films from sci-fi to drama. Crocodile is their first feature film.
Pietra Brettkelly is an Academy Award-nominated, Sundance-winning New Zealand documentary filmmaker whose films have premiered at major international festivals including Sundance, Venice, Berlinale, Tribeca and Toronto.
