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Ikiré Jones is a pioneering independent production company & design firm that radically straddles the worlds of auteur cinema, high fashion, and fine art.
Founded on the principle that there is an inherent, transcendent regality in the stories of marginalized and displaced populations, the company utilizes striking visual design and sophisticated genre storytelling as a Trojan horse to dismantle cultural bias and subvert media tropes. By marrying premium cinematic craftsmanship with high-concept textile artistry, Ikiré Jones creates universally resonant narratives that celebrate the triumphs, complexities, and endurance of the human spirit.
With a globe-spanning cinematic vision that traverses Philadelphia, West Africa, Italy, and beyond, our filmography is defined by a defiant dedication to sensitive, cross-cultural storytelling.
Our work centers historically disregarded peoples, translating their lived experiences onto the screen not through the lens of trauma, but with profound grace, nuance, and structural beauty. By weaving rich cultural tapestries with complex human emotion, we create transcendent cinematic landscapes that challenge global perspectives, ensuring that those often left in the shadows of society are brought into the light with dignity and radiance.
IN
POST PRODUCTION
I VIAGGIATORI
As the restless souls of drowned migrants
possess an Italian town,
a grief-stricken mother
who hears the dead embarks
on a desperate search
for her missing son.
THE DEBUT FEATURE
BRAVO, BURKINA!
A boy flees his village and migrates to Italy. When later disillusioned by heartbreak, and haunted by memories of home, he travels through time in hope of regaining all he has lost.
SELECTED SCREENINGS
World Premiere: Sundance Film Festival, NEXT, 2023
African Premiere: Opening Film, FESPACO 2023, Burkina Faso
New African Film Festival, United States
Maine International Film Festival
Crested Butte Film Festival
ArtLab at Harvard University
European Premiere: Africa Film Festival, Cologne, Germany
African Film Festival, Munich, Germany
CinemAfrica, Stockholm, Sweden
iAfrica Film Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
La Roche Sur Yon Film Festival, France
Philadelphia Film Festival
RIZOMA Festival, Madrid, Spain
Africa Rising International Film Festival, South Africa
Luxor African Film Festival, Egypt African Film Festival
Hamburg, Germany
Art x Lagos, Nigeria
Art Philly 2026: Displaced Flowers; Still In Bloom.
THE DOCUMENTARY
AFTER MIGRATION: CALABRIA
A triumphant portrait of a boy who left
his home, and a mother who birthed her child
in a refugee camp, as they transcend difficult histories
while settling in a quiet Italian town.
SELECTED SCREENINGS
World Premiere: Black Star Film Festival
Streaming: Criterion Channel
LA SIRENA (20 min)
Under the Tuscan sun,
a woman is pulled from the sea.
Years later, while traveling with her husband & child,
she confronts the past love that led her into the waves.
DO YOU SEE ME (7 min)
A love story about loss
and never letting go.
While wrestling with trauma,
a boy finds solace in waking dreams.
SELECTED SCREENINGS
27th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland)
S16 Film Festival (Nigeria)
BlackStar Film Festival 2024 (USA)
Afrika Film Festival Koeln 2024 (Germany)
Stories with a Bigger Purpose
Require people whose hearts are big enough
to find a new way forward.
Director
Chief Creative Officer
Walé Oyéjidé, Esq. An award-winning filmmaker, designer, writer, musician, and lawyer
that combats bias with creative storytelling.
As the founder of Ikiré Jones, he employs fashion design as a vehicle to celebrate the perspectives of marginalized populations.
Selected Accolades
He is an SFFilm Rainin Grantee, a Fellow of Sundance Feature Film, BlackStar Filmmaker Lab, Open Society Foundations, Google Image Equity, and TED Fellow, among others. He is also a National Geographic Explorer.
Motion Pictures + Television
His apparel design featured in the films "Black Panther" (Marvel Studios) “Coming 2 America” (Amazon), and “Dispatches from Nowhere” (AMC).
Museum Exhibitions
Oyéjidé has held solo exhibitions at the African American Museum, Philadelphia & Michener Museum of Art.
His work was part of the "Making Africa" contemporary design exhibit at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, and the HIGH Museum of Art in Atlanta. He was also featured in the "Creative Africa" exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Centraal Museum, Grassi Museum, House of European History, Penn Museum, and the Fowler Museum, UCLA, among many others.
Talks
As a TED Fellow, he gave an internationally renowned TED Talk on the social impact of culturally representative design. In other speaker engagements, he has lectured about his work in Brazil, Ecuador, France, Tanzania, and the United Kingdom. In venues which include Harvard Museums of Art, and UNESCO’s Paris HQ, to name a few.
Publications
Mr. Oyéjidé is one of the co-writers of the anthology, “The Good Immigrant USA” (Little, Brown and Company, 2019). His other work include screenwriting and freelance creative copywriting.
Presentations
His designs were presented as part of the "Generation Africa" fashion show at Pitti Uomo 89 in Florence, Italy.
Miscellaneous Displays of Excellence
He is a recording artist/producer that has collaborated with J-Dilla and MF Doom, among others. And for what it's worth, Esquire Magazine crowned Walé Oyéjidé as one of the Best Dressed Men in the United States of America.