The Man in my Basement: The Whole Story

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Produced by Cardiff based producer John Giwa-Amu and filmed in Carmarthenshire, The Man in my Basement releases on Hulu and in select cinemas from 12 September 2025.

To support the UK release we have produced a Q&A podcast and video with producer John Giwa-Amu as well as an editorial piece written by location scout on The Man in My Basement and writer Paul Mackay.

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Walter Mosley – in the African American neighbourhood of Sag Harbor, Charles Blakey (Hawkins) is out of work, out of luck and on the verge of foreclosure on his ancestral home. A knock on the door from a mysterious businessman, Anniston Bennet (Dafoe), brings a bizarre and lucrative proposition: rent his dusty stand-up basement out for the summer and receive enough money to clear his debts for good. Once Charles accepts, he finds himself led down a terrifying path that confronts his family’s ghosts and locks the men in a terrifying puzzle, at the heart of it, race, the source of their traumas and the root of all evil.

Welsh Connections

Producer / Executive Producer: John Giwa-Amu
Filming Locations: Carmarthenshire
Funding: Ffilm Cymru Wales, Creative Wales and the National Lottery via the Arts Council for Wales.

Welsh producer and director John Giwa-Amu spoke with actor/writer Kieron Self about his latest production role on new release The Man in My Basement, as well as his career journey from professional fruit machine player, to falling in love with film on his first Welsh language film set and winning talent awards.

Listen to the podcast below or through Apple, Amazon Music or Spotify, or at Buzzsprout directly.

We recorded a Q&A with Cardiff based producer John Giwa-Amu who spoke with writer/actor Kieron Self about the film.

To request a DCP or MP4 of the interview, please email [email protected]

 

We commissioned writer and location scout on The Man in My Basement, Paul Mackay to write a piece for September’s Buzz Magazine about his experience on the film.

Rightsholder: Andscape

The film is only available to select Everyman and Showcase cinemas before it launches on Hulu in September 2025.

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