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DAMILOLA ORIMOGUNJE
Damilola is a Nigerian screenwriter and film director. He has a B.Sc. in Mass Communication from Caleb University, Lagos, Nigeria. After his degree, he has worked with various production outlets like Lagos Television, Royal Roots, MNET Africa and FilmOne as a writer or content producer. In 2014, he won the United Nations sponsored Homevida Short Script competition.
As a film director, his short films have been selected and screened in over 50 film festivals including Film Africa, Luxor African Film Festival, Fespaco, Pan African Film Festival, winning several awards.
His debut feature film, For Maria Ebun Pataki premiered in London at Film Africa in November 2020, winning The Audience Award For Best Narrative Feature. The film went on to bag six nominations at the prestigious AMAA awards, including Best Writing and Directing categories.
Damilola has been featured in reputable film blogs such as Sight & Sound, The Guardian, BBC, The British Blacklist, and many more. He sees himself as part of a new generation of Nigerian filmmakers making visually compelling and unconventional African content for social change.
IFEANYI CHIDI BARBARA
Ifeanyi has worked on the development of widely known television shows on MNET’s Africa Magic. The shows include Riona and Unbroken where she was Head Writer, Battleground : The Final Showdown, Jemeji, and Hush where she was Story Editor.
With responsibility for more than 50,000 minutes of TV under her belt, she is also Creator of television shows: Riona, Ajoche, and Co-Creator of Retreat and Head Over Heels. She also has script writing credits on Jamestown, The Bachelors, Aduke Hotel, The Team, and EbonyLife TV’s Dowry.
She is the writer of web series – Our Best Friend’s Wedding Season 2, one of the Directors on BukaFedGeeks’ Man of Her Dreams and Producer on Ndani TV’s One Chance. In 2020, Ifeanyi served as a Juror for the British Fantasy Awards in the Film and Television Category.
Ifeanyi currently is Creator and Head Writer on Africa Magic’s 260 episode Telenovela – Dilemma; which premiered in September, 2021.
TOLULOPE ITEGBOJE
Tolulope is passionate about storytelling. As a Nigerian, he is curious about the transformative effect and possibilities that storytelling has on people’s perception of Africa. This informs his goal as a filmmaker to drive positive change by telling high quality, entertaining, informative, and authentic African stories to people all over the world.
Since completing the Masters in Film making program at the London Film School, he has collaborated as a producer and director with several creatives to achieve this goal. Working with talented creators has resulted in the production of films that have screened to positive reception at various festivals; as well as a career in advertising as Head of Production for Nigeria’s leading marketing communications group, X3M Group. At X3M he produced well received audiovisual campaigns for brands like Etisalat, DStv, GOtv, and Three Crowns Milk.
As an independent producer and director, he has gone on to create beautiful motion pictures for brands such as Kuda, Budweiser and Nestle. A few years ago, he collaborated with a team of talented creatives to produce and direct a life changing story about street boys (popularly called area boys) in Lagos, Nigeria. The documentary was licensed by Netflix to stream globally, which so far counts as his biggest claim to fame. Yet.
JAMES OMOKWE
