Supacell producer Sheila Nortley is stepping back into the world of magic, memory, and Black British nostalgia with Osoro, her supernatural romance short now being developed into a feature film.
Originally released as a short, Osoro starred Supacell’s Nadine Mills, Shingai Shoniwa (lead singer of The Noisettes), Rima Nsubuga and Kaine Lawrence. While casting for the feature hasn’t been confirmed yet, early financing conversations are already in motion, with Nortley collaborating once again with My Accomplice.
At its heart, Osoro is personal. Inspired by Nortley’s own experiences with loss, the film follows Alesha Amoah — a woman who seemingly has it all until she returns home to care for her ailing mother. Old wounds rise to the surface, and a tender reunion with her high school love Kadien brings warmth… until tragedy pulls Alesha into Osoro, a mystical limbo unlocked through ancestral ritual.
Nortley describes the project as “a story about that very human, yet very otherworldly, space between love, loss, grief and memory and how those things stay with us.” She calls it a sweeping supernatural romance — one that expands on the emotional depth and visual poetry that made the short so acclaimed.
Nortley’s creative relationship with Nadine Mills has only grown since the short; Mills went on to play Sabrina Clarke in Rapman’s hit Netflix series Supacell, now filming its second season.
The feature film is created and written by Nortley, with Jamie Clark serving as executive producer and Aleksandra Bilić and Dorottya Székely producing for My Accomplice. The original short was developed with Cameron Roach’s Rope Ladder Fiction.
Originally read on Deadline.