Super Eagles ’96

6.0
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 93 min
  • Premiere: 2022. October 13.

Since its debut in 1994, Nigeria has qualified for six of the eight FIFA World Cup tournaments, reaching the last 16 on three occasions. They are three-time Africa Cup of Nations winners. And they have placed fifth in FIFA rankings – the highest position achieved by an African team. It’s no surprise, then, that they are affectionately known as the Super Eagles. Bamiro’s fascinating documentary not only details how the team grew in stature, it locates them within the country’s politically turbulent recent history – through the various coups, the imprisonment and execution of writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and many others, and the corporate scandals resulting from widespread pollution. It successfully balances profiles of those involved in the team’s success with figures who have fought to better life across the whole of the country.

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Art

Will Newell

Art Direction

Camera

Jaime Ackroyd

Director of Photography

Directing

Yemi Bamiro

Director

Editing

Production

Amit Dey

Executive Producer

Lia Nicholls

Producer

Monica Mwangi

Line Producer

Briony Clark

Producer

Jim Anderson

Producer

Karen Kavanagh

Producer

Sound

Kle Savidge

Music Supervisor

Thomas Farnon

Original Music Composer

Babatunde Adefuye

Original Music Composer

Writing

Yemi Bamiro

Writer

Art

Will Newell

Art Direction

Camera

Jaime Ackroyd

Director of Photography

Directing

Yemi Bamiro

Director

Editing

Production

Amit Dey

Executive Producer

Lia Nicholls

Producer

Monica Mwangi

Line Producer

Briony Clark

Producer

Jim Anderson

Producer

Karen Kavanagh

Producer

Sound

Kle Savidge

Music Supervisor

Thomas Farnon

Original Music Composer

Babatunde Adefuye

Original Music Composer

Writing

Yemi Bamiro

Writer