Osahon Tongo

Osahon Tongo is a Nigerian-American writer, director, and producer based in Los Angeles, California. Known for Happy Bird (2016), Iman and The Light Warriors (2017), Greenwood Ave. VR (2019), Actors Anonymous (2016) and Beast (2013). His short film Happy Bird screened at Cannes Short Corner, The Chinese Theater, The Skirball Cultural Center and earned him the honor of being one of the inaugural Ryan Murphy Half Foundation Directing Fellows where he shadowed director Barbara Brown on Scream Queens. He is the writer/producer on the award-winning short film Iman And The Light Warriors that premiered at HBO's ABFF Festival and has screened at film festivals around the world. Tongo has also written short film scripts for a series for SnapChat/NBC Indigo. In 2018 he produced a virtual reality project with Ayana Baraka, called "Greenwood Avenue" for Google's innovative VR180 platform. In 2017 he worked as a cinematographer on Jesse Williams and Hank Willis Thomas' Question Bridge installation that premiered in the African American Smithsonian.