Aimiende Negbenebor Sela

Aimiende Negbenebor Sela is a Writer-Director of Nigerian descent, adopted by a Jewish-Israeli family from the Bronx, and a Stevens Institute of Technology Distinguished Alumni Award recipient in Arts and Humanities. Her award-winning short films have screened at numerous festivals across the world, and her feature screenplays have placed in several competitions including Screencraft Film Fund, Austin Film Festival and Cinestory Foundation Fellowship, and in the top 15% at Academy Nicoll Fellowships. Her latest screenplay, Utopia, made it to the second round at the 2018 Sundance Writer's Lab. As a prose writer, one of Aimiende's short stories, Peach Cobbler, was published in the summer 2016 issue of African Voices Magazine. A publication dedicated to fostering cultural understanding and awareness through literature, art, and film. Growing up as that kid glued to The Sound of Music, back in Nigeria, to the adult now dazzled by the complexity of the characters in 12 Angry Men, films h