Remi Vaughan-Richards is a Nigerian

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Early life and education

Remi was born in Nigeria, one of four children born to British architect Alan Richards (1925-1989) and Ayo Vaughan (1928-1993), a nurse educator who created the Lagos State School of Nursing. Ayo was from a prominent Lagos family whose patriarch was the 19th-century American artisan

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. The family members all used the

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Vaughan-Richards. Her maternal great-grandfather is the Lagos aristocrat

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. She attended

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and the

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in London.Beti Ellerson
"British-Nigerian Remi Vaughan-Richards talks about “Faaji Agba”, her passion for cinema, and the two cultures she embraces"
''African Women in Cinema Blog'' (19 October 2015); blog of the Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema.

Career

Vaughan-Richards started her filmmaking career in the art department, where she worked on such films as ''

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'' (1995) and ''

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'' (1999).About the Director
African Film Festival New York. In 2020, Remi Vaughan-Richards completed the documentary “The Lost Legacy of Bida Bikini” which is now permanently on the British Museum website. Remi Vaughan-Richards body of work includes ''Wetin Dey'' for the BBC World Service Trust; “Laraba’s World” for MoFilm (UK)/Unilever; ''One Small Step''; “Hidden Treasures” series on the first wave of contemporary Western trained artists in Nigeria. In 2015 ''Pulse'' magazine named her as one of "9 Nigerian female movie directors you should know" in the

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film industry. Vaughan-Richards spent six years making ''Faaji Agba'' (2016), a full-length documentary about the history of the music scene in Lagos, as told by older musicians assembled by record store owner Kunle Tejuoso. She is creative director at her production company, Singing Tree Films. Vaughan-Richards's ''Unspoken'' was selected to appear at the 6th Annual Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) in Lagos, in November 2016. In 2019, Vaughan-Richards was featured in the ''Polaris'' catalogue produced by

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, she was interviewed alongside other practitioners from around the world.

Personal life

Vaughan-Richards lives in the house known as the Alan Vaughan-Richards House in

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, designed by her father Alan. She has also been active in the preservation of the house and her father's papers, and in historic architecture in Lagos more generally."The Alan Vaughan-Richards House"
''Brownbook'' 47(September/October 2014). Her ancestry includes

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and

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Nigerian people of British descent Nigerian people of Cherokee descent 20th-century births Alumni of Kingston University Filmmakers from Lagos

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