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Mena Fombo

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Documentary Director 🇳🇬
🎬#NoRucksGiven! 🏉Now @tntsports @discoveryplusuk
@ted Talk:No You Cannot Touch My Hair 1mil+ views
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The rise of top flight women’s rugby - now showing on @tntsports.

Featuring
@kapolkapo
Dr Simi Pam
Ellie Kildunne
Tatyana Heard
Reneeqa Bonner
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Full credits - give us a follow!

Directed by @menafombo
DOP @lauragallopdop
Camera @therealrhodri
Camera @menafombo
1st Assistant Camera Will Reddaway
Focus Puller James Amott
Gaffers Tom Nowel & Bertil Mulvad
Spark Georgina Evans
Hair & Make Up @stefan_jemell
Photography Dongmin Kim
Photography & Researcher @shurls83
Editor @jared.k.o
Production, post production, bts photography Reframe the Game WBD Access @tntsports collaboration @blakwavepro by @menafombo

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The rise of top flight women’s rugby - now showing on @tntsports.

Featuring
@kapolkapo
Dr Simi Pam
Ellie Kildunne
Tatyana Heard
Reneeqa Bonner
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Full credits give us a follow! by @menafombo

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#throwback to 2017 social experiment touching random people's hair... Part of No You Cannot Touch My Hair campaign and @tedxbristol talk. Wanna talk all things hair? Book now for Black Girl Convention @blackgirlcon 2019 - the South West's largest event for women and girls of African & Caribbean heritage - tickets in bio, ☝🏾see you there! .
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#blackgirlcon19 #blackgirlmagic #afro #naturalhair #bristol #blackactivist #blackgirluk #blackgirltech #blackgirlsrock #hair #tedtalks #donttouch by @menafombo

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7 years ago

Last night the @filmtvcharity Royal screening for world premiere of Digger movie.

Had to bring it for Bristol and the South West!

#diggerpremiere by @menafombo

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Soul Fest 2026 - Preview & Q&A - Children of Blood and Bone. What a cast! What a director!

The last pic has destroyed my existence!
Been waiting on this meet up for over two decades since I first saw Love and Basketball! And today I totally fooked it with that shit show of a selfie!

I’m the problem! Me! But I guess at least I was there! by @menafombo

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Mena x Ocean = Joy. by @menafombo

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Blak Wave Productions x Channel 4 IP fund. We are so please to share with the world that we were successful in our pitch to the @channel4 creative equity fund.

This is big for Blak Wave. Mena and I do a lot of documentary’s and short drama films but we are super excited to be developing our first drama tv show with Channel 4

This has been years in the making and it’s a reminder that this game is a marathon and not a sprint. Shout out to the other companies selected we are in good company.

Big up to Jenny Davies we cooking up some big tings

#channel4 #bristol #tv #wecooking #drama @bymichaeljenkins @menafombo by @menafombo

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2 months ago

Perfect Timing.
Finally got my nephew @shedeursanders original jersey.
Bring on our next season!
🇬🇧🇳🇬 aunties here for the long game! Any team, any time! by @menafombo

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Game time!!

Came back for more of the men’s game - this @bristolaztecs set up is something else! And we got the W!! Yeay!

Also shout out to all the media 📸🎥 peeps! honestly comparing shooting rugby and shooting American Football - or at least this game - the energy is very different! Like positive vibes all round!

Thanks @capturedby.jake for this quick snap! by @menafombo

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18 months ago I could not have shot a sports documentary like this. Not because of budget. Not because of access. Nobody told me getting the shot would mean getting myself physically fit first.

I was at a game and watched a camera operator sprint up the sidelines, drop to the floor, crouch, pace walk, move. Constantly move. I was sat on a stool. Shooting, but static. After the game I looked up the footage the camera op had taken and my jaw dropped. It was dynamic, alive, cinematic. And I knew in that moment that if I genuinely wanted to create in this space, something had to change.

Not my passion. Not my vision. My body.

Sports documentary filmmaking is physical.

The best shot does not wait for you to feel ready. Long weekends, early starts, cross country travel, hours on your feet, weight of camera kit, staying mentally locked in when everything else wants to switch off.

I had been mentally committed to telling untold sports stories for years. I needed my body to match.

So I focussed.

Seventy pounds down.

Back to the discipline I learned as a Team GB squad member.

Train. Prep. Fuel. Deliver during on and off the field.

Last weekend before the game I jogged alongside fifty plus players and coaches as they did a team activity ahead of the Great Britain Women vs Germany European Cup fixture. I sat on the floor, crossed legged (something I’d massively struggled to do comfortably before), without a second thought.

I got the shot.

I could not have made this film eighteen months ago. Now I am making it. And it’s looking 🔥 (more on that to come soon).

Patting myself on the back!

What lengths have you gone to, to get the shot?

📷 @shurls83 1
📷 @rockerdaviesmedia 2

#SportsDocumentary #nflfilms #BigCatEnergy #AmericanFootball #WeightLossjourney by @menafombo

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FortyThrive!
🎂🎉🥳 by @menafombo

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