Phone Swap

Phone Swap
Theatrical poster
Directed byKunle Afolayan
Written byKemi Adesoye
Produced byKunle Afolayan
Starring
CinematographyYinka Edward
Alfred Chia
Edited byYemi Jolaoso
Music byTruth
Production
company
Golden Effects Studios
Distributed by
  • Golden Effects Pictures
  • Blue Pictures
Release date
  • 30 March 2012 (2012-03-30)
Running time
117 minutes
110 minutes (edited version)
CountryNigeria
Languages
  • English
  • Yoruba
  • Igbo
  • Twi
Budget₦60 million[1]

Phone Swap is a 2012 Nigerian romance comedy-drama film written by Kemi Adesoye, directed and produced by Kunle Afolayan. It stars Nse Ikpe Etim, Wale Ojo, Joke Silva, Chika Okpala, Lydia Forson and Afeez Oyetoro, and focuses on a series of events unfolding when two polar opposites accidentally exchange phones. The film was conceived after a brief from an advertising agency to create a movie that would cut across ages 15 to 45.[2] It received 4 nominations at the 8th Africa Movie Academy Awards which includes the category Best Nigerian Film and won the award Achievement in Production Design.[3]

  1. ^ "Afolayan strikes gold with Phone Swap". Daily Newswatch. My Daily Newswatch. 26 January 2013. Archived from the original on December 15, 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Wakeup call … Kunle Afolayan's Phone Swap". Daily Independent Newspaper. Daily Independent, Nigeria. 22 October 2013. Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "AMAA Nominees and Winners 2012". Africa Movie Academy Awards - Africa Film Academy. AMA Awards. 2012. Archived from the original on 14 February 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.