Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell Director/Producer
Rebecca is an ex-international athlete, she swam for both Great Britain (GBR) and Kenya over a 10-year career, quitting the 2012 GBR Olympic Team to attend the University of Oxford. She graduated BFA before moving to Paris; there she worked as a communications strategist and learnt French. Her work now is mostly concerned with Decoloniality through storytelling—often crossing into social and cultural politics—this mostly happens through her writing and filmmaking. In 2019 she directed and produced acclaimed documentary Breakfast in Kisumu, an exploration of the aesthetics of memorialisation, a visual essay about the freedom fighters of the post-colonial apartheid era, and an ode to her father, the late, great Professor Rok Ajulu. Her short work is more experimental, It’s Not Us (2020) and No Justice No Peace (2015) explore the internet language of blackness through the discourse of the Black Lives Matter movement. Day-to-day she shapes and guides the projects of her creative strategy agency, Nyar K’Odero Group, managing the team whilst consulting as a researcher and writer. She is currently teaching and studying for a PhD in African Cultural Studies.
Raphael Laurent Executive Producer
Raphael has collaborated with Rebecca since 2012 where he was a key part of the team that was responsible for the inception of Peerless Women’s Network. He is currently reading for a degree in Theology at Oxford which underpins his vocation as a Community Theologian while working for the NHS supporting their efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic at a London NHS Trust. Raphael has worked in a number of operational roles including as a contractor for the insurance industry, governments, and corporate entities — repatriating those who become unwell abroad. Concurrently to this, Raphael continues his collaboration with Rebecca as the Operations Lead & Co-PCR for Nyar K’Odero Group overseeing projects that fall under the companies Social Justice in Action programme.
Oliver Bradley-Baker Cinematographer
Oliver Bradley-Baker is a visual artist and cinematographer; currently based in Oxford he specialises in documentary making. After two years at Oxford University’s Ruskin School of Art he graduated with a Masters degree in Fine Art. He is currently in post-production for his first feature documentary looking at nomadic lifestyles within western society. His projects make extensive use of the medium of film: shooting in a mix of Digital, DV, VHS and 16mm film. Ollie’s personal interest lies in revealing narrative form through the creation of an experientially informed documentary cinema.
