MAROUF ADEYEMI e.V.
Film and acting, for people nobody has offered a camera to.
Danamax is our film and acting arm: workshops, equipment, production support and the introductions that decide whether a talented young person is ever seen.
The barrier is access, not ability.
Acting and film are taught through unpaid internships, expensive schools and family contacts, which quietly selects for people who already have money. We work on the parts that can be given directly: training, equipment, a set to work on, and someone to send the work to.
Two halves of the same thing.
Craft
- Acting and presentation workshops
- Camera, sound and editing basics
- Writing and storytelling
Access
- Equipment loans for a first project
- Production support for short films
- Introductions to festivals, casting and crews
Honest status.
What exists today
The concept, the first workshop plan, and the people who will run it. There is no studio and no production slate yet, and we will not describe one until there is.
Name protection
Trademark registration for Danamax is in progress. Until it completes, the name is in use but not yet protected.
Cameras and time
Working camera equipment, editing software licences, and people from the industry willing to teach a weekend are worth more here than money.
The rules we work by.
The work belongs to the maker
Participants keep the rights to what they produce. We do not take ownership of a young person’s first film in exchange for helping them make it.
No unpaid production work
Participants are not used as free crew on other people’s projects under the label of experience.
This one needs things, not only money.
Equipment you no longer use, a few hours of teaching, a room in the evenings, or an introduction to someone who books, casts or scouts. All of it counts, and some of it counts more than a transfer.