Memory before spectacle
We start from what actually happened and who lived it. Craft serves truth, not the other way around.
About the Studio
We make films from
We make films from
the stories a people
carry.
TaradomeFilms is an independent studio working where African history, memory, and cinema meet — developing films and preserving the testimony they grow from.
Founded in 2004, we began with a conviction that hasn't changed: that the stories which shape a people deserve to be told with the craft, patience, and ambition of the best cinema in the world.
African narratives have too often been told from the outside, or not at all. We exist to change that — to develop and produce work rooted in lived experience, and to preserve the primary memory that history depends on before it fades.
That means holding two things at once. The feature film and the family testimony. The documentary and the archive. The screen the world watches, and the record the next generation inherits. One studio, working across both.
What Guides Us
Principles, not slogans.
Preserve, then produce
Before a story becomes a film, it becomes a record. Archives outlive productions — and protect the people in them.
Dignity for every contributor
Survivors and families are collaborators, not sources. Consent, care, and respect are built into how we work.
Global craft, African root
World-class filmmaking in service of stories that belong to a place and its people. No compromise on either.
How a Story Becomes a Film
From memory to screen.
Our work moves through four stages — each one preserving something the next depends on.
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Stage 01
Gather
Testimony, photographs, letters, recordings. We collect primary memory directly from those who hold it, with consent at every step.
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Stage 02
Preserve
Materials are catalogued, converted to archival formats, and stored securely — a living record that stands on its own.
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Stage 03
Develop
From the archive, stories emerge. We develop documentary and film work grounded in the evidence and the voices behind it.
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Stage 04
Release
Finished work reaches global screens — festivals, cinemas, streaming — carrying the story to audiences who never lived it.
See It In Practice
The Biafra Memory Project.
Our flagship archive is this philosophy, live: a growing repository of Nigerian-Biafra War testimony, preserved for the generations who never lived it — and the film work it will one day support.
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