Exclusive: Tioleja Films has optioned four of author Gabriel Souleyka‘s novels: Solitude, My Soul is a Witness, Akoni Yoruba, and Toya for cinematic adaptation.
Tioleja recently entered into a production deal with Ten Ten Global Media to co-produce My Soul is a Witness. Ten Ten is a multimedia company founded by Lisa Osinloye and Simone Y. White that produces feature film and television projects. They executive produced 2020’s feature film The Last Full Measure. Yasmina Fagbemi Edwards (Bigger Than Africa), CEO of Tioleja Films, is attached to produce each adaptation, along with Gabriel Souleyka as screenwriter and producer.
Gabriel holds a PhD in History, with a specialty in African History. He published his 2020 debut novel, Le Cri De L’Innocence, in France. For many years, he worked as a script doctor, and then worked on various film projects as a screenwriter. He has already released five historical novels that...
Tioleja recently entered into a production deal with Ten Ten Global Media to co-produce My Soul is a Witness. Ten Ten is a multimedia company founded by Lisa Osinloye and Simone Y. White that produces feature film and television projects. They executive produced 2020’s feature film The Last Full Measure. Yasmina Fagbemi Edwards (Bigger Than Africa), CEO of Tioleja Films, is attached to produce each adaptation, along with Gabriel Souleyka as screenwriter and producer.
Gabriel holds a PhD in History, with a specialty in African History. He published his 2020 debut novel, Le Cri De L’Innocence, in France. For many years, he worked as a script doctor, and then worked on various film projects as a screenwriter. He has already released five historical novels that...
- 7/14/2024
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Bobby Roth has been hired to direct The Last Rescue, a political thriller about a seasoned Muslim freelance journalist and a Hollywood movie star who form an unlikely partnership to heroically smuggle children out of a besieged Syrian village. Eric J. Adams and Sam Khoze are producing the indie, which was co-written by Todd Tavolazzi, Roth, and Nicholas Roth based Tavolazzi’s novel Looking Into the Sun. Simone White, Lisa Osinloye and Ojan Missaghi of New York-based Ten Ten Global Media will serve as exec producers. Roth has directed numerous episodes for TV including Prison Break, Criminal Minds and Lost. Adams, who is also a screenwriter and investigative journalist, served on the production team and wrote the screenplay for Supremacy, starring Danny Glover and Mahershala Ali. Khoze is the producer behind 1st Born, with Val Kilmer and Denise Richards.
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Actress Catherine Davis has been cast in Trauma Center,...
- 3/14/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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