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THE MUD HUT

True Story - Pre-Production 2021

A nigerian woman in London grieving for her mother builds a full scale traditional mud hut in her back garden much to the dislike of the white middle aged neighbours.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- True Story, Drama
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Synopsis
- THE MUD HUT - Synopsis:
  
  “ its 1995 and fish out of water Amaziah has been living in England with her husband and two young children for nearly three years in a mainly white suburb of London. She really misses her home in Nigeria and then her mother dies suddenly and she cannot say goodbye. Grieving for her Mother , one day Amaziah decides to build a large full scale traditional Nigerian Mud Hut in her long, narrow back garden. When her next door neighbours return from their Summer holiday to find the giant Mud Hut partially built grumpy Ray Judd embarks on his campaign to get her to take the hut down. Ray is obsessed with growing his flowers and thinks The Mud Hut will stop his flowers from becoming his prize winning blooms. Amaziah stands up to Ray and everyone and a drama unfolds around her and The Mud Hut and ultimately she has to make decisions and learn lessons about herself and her relationships with her family and the new culture she is a part of”