Continuing our #2021BookerPrize shortlist film series, created in partnership with the BBC and @Rural_Media, we have a contemporary adaptation of Nadifa Mohamed’s novel 'The Fortune Men', directed by @YeroBiutiful and starring Elmi Rashid Elmi Born in 1992, Yero is a British-Nigerian writer-director for TV and film, who has worked with the BBC, Channel 4, BFI, Sky, and Netflix. Yero is also a story editor for audio and worked on The Bias Diagnosis, an original Audible commission. Her award-winning short films Signs and Beneath the Surface have played at international festivals such as Encounters, Aesthetica and the BFI Future Film Festival, where she won a new talent award. Her recent film, 0.5%, was commissioned by BBC Arts and will be released on iPlayer. Yero also recently directed the second unit of Alice Seabright’s upcoming BBC and Amazon TV show Chloe She is a graduate of New Creatives, a scheme funded by Arts Council England and BBC Arts to highlight the best of emerging ...