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A stylishly dressed man and woman standing close together in an urban alley, with colorful city buildings and a parked car in the background.

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.

Two people standing in a doorway with a window behind them. The person on the left is a woman in a dress, standing on the window ledge, holding onto the door frame, and backlit by bright light. The person on the right is a man in a shirt, holding a glass and looking at it, with their silhouettes visible against the light.
A young boy is standing next to a person in a traditional costume with a large mask and a long, shaggy, cream-colored costume that resembles a mythical creature, under a large tree in a grassy area.
Three women of African descent, standing behind a bust of Cleopatra, with a white curtain background and green palm leaves, colorful clothing and headscarves.
A woman kneeling in prayer at a historical cemetery with old, weathered tombstones and a decorative small building, overlooking rolling hills and a scenic landscape in the background, during daytime.

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

A woman and a young girl on a boat in a natural setting with a body of water in the background. The woman is holding a paddle and wearing a patterned dress, while the girl is wrapped in a yellow cloth, sitting silently. The scene appears to be outdoors with a calm river or lake and a clear sky.

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

Two people, a woman and a man, standing in a narrow alleyway with a stone wall on one side and a yellow building on the other. They are dressed in fashionable clothing, with the man wearing a patterned coat and the woman in a quilted jacket. The alley has fallen leaves on the ground, and a tree branches over the scene. The image promotes the film "Bravo, Burkina!" by Walé Oyéjidé, celebrating Burkinabé culture.

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.

bravoburkina.com
A man in a suit with messy hair and dark skin standing in front of a large ornate stone fountain with a sculpture of a rearing horse and other figures. He is holding a shiny, crinkled metallic blanket or material and appears disheveled and dirty.
A man and woman kneeling on dirt by a water body in a rural area with sparse trees and bushes, looking at the water.

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

A person sitting on a chair in a room with stone walls and an arched ceiling, with sunlight shining through a window behind them. Above, there is a mural of the Last Supper painted on the ceiling. The text underneath reads 'After Migration: Calabria,' directed by Wale Oyejide & Jake Saner.

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.

aftermigration.com
A person sitting on the edge of a red boat on a sandy beach, looking towards the ocean with a cloudy sky overhead.
A person in a yellow jacket is climbing a twisted, leafless tree against a clear blue sky. Part of a building with a dome-shaped roof is visible in the background.

SELECTED SCREENINGS
World Premiere: Black Star Film Festival
Streaming: Criterion Channel

A man stands outside a blue compact car with the hood open and the trunk open. Two children sit inside the car, one in the passenger seat and another in the trunk. The scene is set outdoors with shrubs and a dirt road, under a blue sky with scattered clouds.

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.

A woman with dreadlocks, dressed in a green blazer, standing beside a bed with yellow walls in the background. She is looking down at the bed.
A woman in a white dress and sandals standing outdoors in a wooded area with tall trees and sunlight filtering through the branches.
Two women sitting inside a cafe with sunlight coming through the window, a street scene visible outside with traffic lights and street signs, and potted plants inside. The image is a promotional poster for the film "Do You See Me" by Walé Oyéjidé, featuring large yellow text of the film title.

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.

A woman and a girl riding on a school bus, smiling and laughing, with the woman pushing the girl in front of her.
A person with dark skin and braided hair has their eyes covered with their hands, which have red-painted nails. The background is blurry and warm-colored.

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.

A movie scene showing a close-up of a man and a woman embracing, with traditional clothing, outdoors during daytime.
Two women and a man with a dog sitting on a grassy patch in front of a woodpile, with a rustic wooden building and autumn trees in the background.
A hilltop town with historic buildings and a tower, surrounded by green fields and trees under a sky with clouds.

Director
Chief Creative Officer

A man with glasses and dreadlocks standing with arms crossed, wearing a black jacket, yellow scarf, and yellow and brown clothing, against a dark background.

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.

waleoyejide.com

  • "This enrapturing feature debut offers a succinct meditation on time, identity, and the people who inspire us to look within ourselves."

    ROGEREBERT.COM on BRAVO, BURKINA!

  • "A poetic story that bends time to explore the meaning of existing in two states, coming and going, running away and running toward. It is a multidimensional exploration of love and migration."

    SCRIPTMAGAZINE.COM on BRAVO, BURKINA!