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Genesis Owusu’s “STAMPEDE” was shot here by Sydney director Isaac Brown with Ghanaian cinematographer Daniel Attoh: riders from the city’s daredevil bike community, residents of Jamestown on screen, horses on the road. The research went through Ghanaian cinema and a VICE documentary about the riders before a frame was written.

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Still from Genesis Owusu “STAMPEDE”, riders in Accra

Isaac Brown

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For Genesis Owusu’s “STAMPEDE”, Brown went to Accra, spent weeks on research before wri…

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Jake Gabbay (Clipse), Mikuláš Hrdlička (Son Lux), Daniel Attoh (Genesis Owusu) and Badr…

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