Quramo Productions has wrapped up the script lab for Yellow Moon, a groundbreaking scripted series addressing domestic and sexual violence (DSV) in Lagos. The series is inspired by Living for a Higher Purpose – a Quramo Publishing title written by the Executive Secretary of Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), Mrs. Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi – and survivor accounts from Women At Risk International Foundation (WARIF).
“Book-to-screen storytelling allows us to preserve and extend the impact of powerful African narratives,” says the CEO of Quramo Publishing and Quramo Productions, Gbemi Shasore. “With Yellow Moon, we’re equipping young filmmakers to tell value-driven stories while helping audiences better understand—and engage with—the realities of domestic and sexual violence.”
Highlights of the project include training over 90 creatives across scriptwriting, production, and post-production, with Albanto Scriptwriters as delivery partners, Lagos DSVA and WARIF as technical advisors and WAPA, Co-Creation Hub, Trace TV, Naija FM, Arise TV, PopCentral TV as partners. Yellow Moon will be screened in communities across Lagos IBILE LGAs in partnership with WAPA and be available for festival submissions to AFRIFF, African Film Festival Atlanta, and more
Yellow Moon will premiere online and through local community screenings and international distribution partners, with each episode offering practical information for survivors—including helplines with some episodes produced in Pidgin English for accessibility.
It will be recalled that in November last year, Quramo Publishing and Productions announced the launch of Quramo Creative Lab with an open call for early-career scriptwriters to join its inaugural book-to-screen adaptation programme. The six-to-eight-week lab brought together emerging writers and experienced mentors to develop scripts that spotlight socially impactful stories. The Quramo Creative Lab offered Nigerian writers and filmmakers a unique opportunity to hone their craft while amplifying narratives of social importance. As both a publisher and production house, Quramo bridges the gap between literature and film, empowering authors to create worlds and filmmakers to bring them to life.
Quramo has pioneered this approach through the Quramo Festival of Words, which fosters networking between writers and filmmakers, and through important docu-films productions like Journey of an African Colony and Loot and the Lost Kingdoms, both of which started as books and later became screen adaptations showing in Netflix.
The Quramo Creative Lab also announced itself as an avenue of job-creation opportunities for emerging creatives in a collaborative environment led by seasoned professionals. Scriptwriting partners include Albanthso, who integrates technology with storytelling,
Utica Capital, Co-Creation Hub, TraceTV, the Megaletrics radio group, White Harvest Network, and more. These partnerships position the lab to produce high-caliber content that showcases Nigerian talent. The final productions will premiere at Quramo’s Festival of Words, on the Qshorts YouTube channel, and at community screenings across Lagos.
