Everyone had an opinion about the most personal decision of Alero’s life. Everyone except her. And that, right there, is where “Let’s Do It” begins.
The new MTV Shuga short film follows Alero, an expectant mother facing a complicated birth and a fear she has carried long before her pregnancy began. When doctors recommend a C-section, she refuses — not out of stubbornness or ignorance, but out of grief. Her own mother died in childbirth, and that history lives in her body in a way no medical explanation can simply override. Her husband Tosan, consumed by the excitement of a new baby, has not stopped to ask what she is actually carrying inside. The film does not flatten either of them — Alero’s fear is treated as real and inherited, and Tosan’s failure is not cruelty but inattention, which is somehow the more painful version of that story.
Starring Treasure Enagbare and Lexan Peters, and directed by Victor Eyike from a script by Ufot Juliet and Amina Yusuf, “Let’s Do I”t is one of those short films that uses a single family’s crisis to open up a much larger conversation. In Nigeria, a mother dies in childbirth every seven minutes. That number sits behind every scene in this film without ever being stated out loud, and that restraint is what makes it land.
“Let’s Do It” is a product of the MTV Shuga Shorts Innovation Lab, a youth-driven storytelling initiative from MTV Staying Alive Foundation that mentors emerging filmmakers and equips them with the training, resources, and platform to produce short films built for real impact.
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MTV Shuga’s Let’s Do It tells the story of Alero, an expectant mother navigating fear, grief, and a critical childbirth decision. Directed by Victor Eyike and written by Ufot Juliet and Amina Yusuf, the short film—developed through the MTV Shuga Shorts Innovation Lab—opens up urgent conversations around maternal health, cultural beliefs, and the importance of informed medical care in Nigeria.
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