British actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s directorial debut “Farming” is an autobiographical tale of how he headed a white skinhead gang as a black youth in the ’80s.
“You’re not doing a documentary, you’re telling a biography in the medium of entertainment, so I like to call it edutainment,” he said at a Cinema Society screening.
“Where I educate the audience about an unknown phenomenon. But at the same time … you have to take poetic license to amalgamate certain characters.”
He added that star Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s character “was several people in my life as a teenager that supported me to make a transition into academia.”