In Between is a short film made for Coldplay's Choose Love campaign, directed by Renee Maria Osubu and produced through Somesuch. Shot on location in Kenya, the film was one of the more ambitious pieces of content attached to the campaign — built around place and portraiture rather than performance.

DawaSuya handled all production on the ground in Kenya. The film received shortlist recognition at both the Creative Circle Awards 2026 and the 1.4 Awards 2026.

Point & Kill is the music video for Little Simz's collaboration with Obongjayar, directed by Ebeneza Blanche through Smuggler and shot on location in Lagos. DawaSuya handled all production on the ground.

The video won three UK Music Video Awards, was named Shots Music Video of the Year, and was selected for the Tribeca Film Festival.

Moncler Voices is part of the brand's ongoing series of short films exploring human stories through the lens of fashion and place. This chapter, titled Ireti — meaning "hope" in Yoruba — was shot on location in Nigeria by Gabriel Moses, whose singular visual language brought an intimacy and texture to the work that is distinctly rooted in the continent.

The film received a Vimeo Staff Pick, one of the most respected curatorial honours in short-form filmmaking.

IAMISIGO, founded by Bubu Ogisi, is one of Africa's most internationally recognised fashion houses — a practice rooted in material research, indigenous craft, and a deeply considered relationship with the continent's textile traditions. When Zalando named IAMISIGO the winner of their 2025 Visionary Award, it marked a significant moment for African fashion on the global stage.

DawaSuya produced the accompanying fashion film across three countries — Lagos, Nairobi and Copenhagen — directed by Timi Akindele-Ajani. The film was featured on Nowness, the world's leading platform for creative culture.

As the winner of the Zalando Visionary Award 2025, IAMISIGO was given the platform to present their Spring/Summer 2026 collection on the runway at Copenhagen Fashion Week — live streamed worldwide. This is the accompanying film, directed by Bubu Ogisi, documenting that moment.

The collection, titled Dual Mandate, reclaims Lord Lugard's colonial phrase and turns it inward — materials drawn from across the continent, techniques spanning hand-weaving, chainmail forging, glass blowing, and fibre knotting. DawaSuya led production. Covered by Vogue Scandinavia, Numéro Berlin, and SHOWstudio.

Bal d'Afrique is one of Byredo's most iconic fragrances — inspired by founder Ben Gorham's connection to Africa and the spirit of a pan-African gathering. For the campaign film, Byredo returned to the continent, shooting in Nairobi with director Gabriel Moses and production company Division Global.

The result is a film that mirrors the fragrance's character: unhurried, cinematic, and deeply rooted in place. DawaSuya handled all production on the ground in Kenya.

Ijó was commissioned by 180 Studios and premiered as part of Gabriel Moses' landmark exhibition REGINA at 180 Studios, London. The film follows young dancers at the Leap of Dance Academy in Lagos — a portrait of movement, joy, and identity rooted in Nigeria.

The film was subsequently released by The Vinyl Factory as a limited edition art object — a hand-bound book of photographs paired with a 7" vinyl record, available exclusively through The Vinyl Factory.

BMX Return follows Courage Adams — one of the world's most recognised BMX athletes — on his return to Nigeria, the country he left as a teenager to pursue a career in Europe. Directed by Fraser Byrne for Red Bull Media House, the film traces Courage's journey back through Lagos and Benin City, reconnecting with family, community, and the streets where it all began.

DawaSuya produced the shoot on the ground across both cities — a production that required navigating two distinct urban environments while capturing the intimacy and energy the story demanded.

A Game For All was Nike's campaign celebrating women's football in Africa — shot on location in Lagos with director Amarachi Nwosu. Nwosu, one of the most compelling visual storytellers working in the African creative space, brought an intimacy to the work that went beyond a standard brand campaign.

DawaSuya handled all production on the ground in Lagos, working across a shoot that required deep community access and logistical precision across multiple locations.

Bad Energy brought together two of the most globally significant artists from the UK and Nigeria — Skepta and Wizkid — for a Lagos shoot directed by Meji Alabi. Alabi has become one of the defining visual voices in Afrobeats, and this video sits firmly in that canon.

DawaSuya line produced the shoot on the ground in Lagos.

The Google News Initiative Africa project was a branded documentary series shining a light on the state of journalism across the continent — produced through Redwood BBDO and directed by Adu Lalouschek. Lalouschek is a London-based documentary filmmaker known for his warmth and candour with real subjects — he works close, avoids the talking-head formula, and finds intimacy in off-the-cuff moments. That approach made him the right fit for a series built around journalists and newsrooms in Lagos.

DawaSuya produced the Lagos unit, navigating access to newsrooms, journalists, and documentary subjects across the city.

Mission Motherland is a 4×1 hour documentary series for BET UK, produced by Big Deal Films — a BAFTA-winning, Emmy-nominated UK production company. The series follows four major British personalities — Alesha Dixon, Clara Amfo, AJ Tracey and Jimmy Akingbola — as they travel to Africa to explore their roots for the first time. DawaSuya served as local Fixer for Jimmy Akingbola's episode, facilitating all on-the-ground production in Lagos.

Ghetto Love is a Lagos-set video for Wizkid, directed by Adriaan Louw through Familia Films. Louw has shot extensively across South Africa and West Africa, and brought a documentary texture to the work that suited the track.

DawaSuya served as service producer on the ground in Lagos.

Spotify's African Heat to the Streets campaign was a multi-city celebration of the Afrobeats diaspora — a large-scale production spanning Lagos and Accra, made through Four-two Creative with director Zandi Tsani and production company Robot out of South Africa.

DawaSuya led the Lagos and Accra production units, coordinating a shoot that moved across two cities.

Joro became one of Wizkid's most-streamed records — a slow-burn love song that crossed over far beyond the Afrobeats core. The video, directed by Adriaan Louw through Familia Films, split its production between Lagos and London.

DawaSuya line produced the Lagos unit.

Samsung's Galaxy A campaign was a global production directed by Felix Brady through Stink Films. The brief called for authentic visual representation of African youth culture across multiple markets.

DawaSuya led the Africa unit, bringing the production fluency needed to deliver to Stink's standards while staying rooted in the continent.

Motherlan was shot in Lagos for i-D Magazine by Tyler Mitchell — the photographer who, in 2018, made history as the first Black photographer to shoot the cover of American Vogue, with Beyoncé. The editorial ran across i-D Issue 358.

DawaSuya handled production on the ground in Lagos, enabling Mitchell to bring his signature gaze — warm, intimate, celebratory — to the city's streets and faces.

The behind-the-scenes companion to DawaSuya's main Coldplay production — a documentary record of the shoot in Kenya. It captures the production itself: the locations, the crew, the moments between takes, and what it takes to pull off a production of this scale in East Africa.

Nigeria's 1996 Olympic football team is one of the greatest stories in African sporting history. The Super Eagles arrived in Atlanta as underdogs and left as gold medallists — defeating Argentina, Brazil and Spain along the way. For a generation of Nigerians, they remain a defining symbol of what the country is capable of.

Directed by Yemi Bamiro and produced by Dorothy St Pictures, Super Eagles '96 is a feature-length documentary that revisits that summer through interviews with the players who lived it. DawaSuya served as Service Producer on the Nigeria shoots. The film is available on Amazon Prime.

The Story of AfroDance is a documentary tracing the origins, evolution, and global spread of Afrodance — from the streets of Lagos to dancefloors worldwide. Directed by Kyla Philander for Red Bull Media House, the film is part of Red Bull's ongoing investment in documenting African youth culture.

DawaSuya produced the Lagos unit, working across the city to find the dancers, communities, and stories that make the case for Afrodance as one of the defining cultural exports of this generation.

Arif at Munch was a film commission for the Edvard Munch Museum in Oslo — written and directed by Wukda with creative direction by Andrew Thomas Huang (known for his work with Björk and FKA Twigs), produced through Object & Animal. The film was shot in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

DawaSuya led the Zanzibar unit production, providing the on-the-ground infrastructure for a highly specific creative vision.

Tiwa Savage is one of the most important artists in African music — a consistent trailblazer who has carried Nigerian pop to global audiences for over a decade. 49-99 is one of her most politically charged records. Meji Alabi directed in Lagos, bringing his signature warm palette and Afrocentric visual language to a video that matches the track's urgency. Line produced by DawaSuya.

Colors x East Africa was a landmark series — ten sessions produced in Nairobi showcasing some of the most compelling artists working across the East African music scene. Artists including Bien, Zandi Tsani, Matt Ngesa, Maya Amolo, Karun, Theecember, Xenia Manasseh, Lisa Oduor-Noah, MAUIMØON, and Nyokabi Kariũki all featured in the series.

DawaSuya produced the full run of sessions in Nairobi, building the production infrastructure for Colors' first deep dive into the East African music ecosystem.

DawaSuya's first project with Red Bull — a documentary following the Lagos BMX community, directed by Fraser Byrne. Dawa brought the team to the city and produced the shoot from the ground up.

It became a viral sensation — one of the most-watched pieces of content on Red Bull Bike's YouTube channel at the time, seen by millions worldwide. The film went on to tour the international festival circuit, reaching audiences far beyond the sports world. The response it generated is what lit the fuse for what came next: building Nigeria's first permanent skatepark.

Directed by Fraser Byrne, the film follows Courage Adams — one of Red Bull's top BMX athletes — as he returns to Nigeria and reunites with the Lagos BMX community that shaped him. DawaSuya produced the shoot on the ground.

All Day I Dream About Sports was co-directed by Gabriel Moses and Pharrell Williams for Adidas — a collaboration that brought together two of the most distinctive creative voices working today. Shot in Dakar, Senegal, the film drew on the city's landscape and culture to build a visual world that felt both global and unmistakably West African.

Pharrell Williams, Grammy-winning producer and creative director at Louis Vuitton, joined Moses for what became one of the more ambitious branded short films made on the continent. DawaSuya handled all production in Dakar.

A collaboration between Popcaan and Davido, directed by Meji Alabi — one of the defining visual voices in Afrobeats, known for his warm palettes, Afrocentric styling, and the kind of polish that makes a video feel as big as the record. This one brings that same energy to a dancehall-Afrobeats crossover, and Alabi's direction keeps it grounded and vibrant throughout. DawaSuya line produced the shoot on the ground.

Wish U Well brought French Montana and Swae Lee — alongside Lojay and Jess Glynne — to Lagos for a video shot in Makoko, the iconic floating community on the Lagos lagoon. The location does a lot of the work: Makoko is visually unlike anywhere else, and the video leans into that — water, colour, and the texture of everyday life in one of Lagos' most distinctive neighbourhoods. DawaSuya handled production on the ground.

Pangaia is one of the defining sustainable fashion brands of this era — built around the idea that fashion and environmental responsibility don't have to be in conflict. For this campaign, they brought Naomi Campbell to Africa, shot by photographer Roderick Ejuetami. Campbell's connection to the continent made her the right face for a campaign rooted in sustainability and African landscape.

DawaSuya produced the campaign on the ground. The work was featured in Vogue and across major fashion press.

A fashion editorial for Vogue Netherlands shot on location in Nairobi by photographer Amar David. DawaSuya handled production on the ground in Nairobi, delivering the infrastructure for a shoot working to the standard a Vogue masthead requires.

Guinness and Arsenal have one of the most visible sponsorship relationships in African football. This campaign brought that partnership to life on the streets of Lagos — directed by Jasper Cable-Alexander through agency Weirdo, with DOP Charlie Knight.

DawaSuya produced the Lagos unit, capturing fan culture across the city for one of Arsenal's biggest supporter markets in the world.

Ayra Starr has become one of the most exciting artists out of Mavin Records and the wider Afrobeats ecosystem. All the Love, released through Republic Records, was directed by Ella Ezeike through creative studio Pluslive Studio, shot in Cape Town.

DawaSuya provided production services on the ground, supporting a shoot that brought Nigerian creative energy to a South African production environment.

Ezra Collective are Mercury Prize winners and one of the most important bands in contemporary British music — a credible bridge between jazz, Afrobeats, and the London club scene. Only Love brought them to Lagos for a shoot alongside Pa Salieu, directed by Ebeneza Blanche through Smuggler.

DawaSuya served as service producer on the ground in Lagos, with Alex Ayodele-Otele producing day-to-day under EP Elizabeth Doonan.

Soprano is one of the most successful French-language rappers of his generation. Facile à danser was directed by Director X — known for his work with Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Nicki Minaj — and shot on location in Côte d'Ivoire through production house Fela. Director X brings a signature high-energy visual style rooted in dance, movement, and street culture, and the video leans fully into that — bright, kinetic, and built around performance.

DawaSuya served as service producer on the ground in Abidjan, managing the Côte d'Ivoire unit.

FKA twigs' Jealousy, featuring Afrobeats star Rema, was directed by Aidan Zamiri — one of the most in-demand music video directors working today, known for his work with Rosalía, Coldplay, and Charli XCX. DawaSuya coordinated the Lagos unit, working closely with Zamiri remotely to manage the Rema pick-up shoot on the ground in Nigeria.

The collaboration required tight remote communication between the UK-based director and the Lagos production team to ensure the Lagos footage matched the look and energy of the wider visual.

Released on Earth Day 2020 during the height of COVID-19 lockdowns, Lay Your Head on Me brought together 209 dancers across 28 countries in a fully remote production — a collective response to isolation and uncertainty. Directed by Filip Nilsson for Object & Animal, the video was built entirely from self-shot footage submitted by performers around the world.

DawaSuya handled all casting for Africa, sourcing and coordinating performers across the continent during a period when traditional production was impossible. The result was one of the most shared music videos of the pandemic era.

Fashion film for GTBank Fashion Weekend, directed by Meji Alabi through JM Films. Shot in Lagos — DawaSuya produced on the ground.

Music video for Tiwa Savage's Malo, featuring Wizkid and Spellz. Directed by Meji Alabi. Shot in Lagos.

Two TVCs for Betway Nigeria, directed by Greg Lomas through T+W SA. DawaSuya handled production on the ground in Lagos — Producer Dawa Thompson, Production Manager Demola Eshinlokun.